New PM Articles for the Week of May 26– June 1

New project management articles published on the web during the week of May 26 – June 1. We read all of this stuff so you don’t have to! Recommended:

Portfolio Management

Pawel Brodzinski offers some thoughts on why portfolio management usually fails to find the optimal mix of investments, and how to improve our approach.
Emanuele Passera continues his series on a financial approach to portfolio management.
Luis Seabra Coelho considers the impact that the scale (linear or logarithmic) we use to portray our data influences the way we react to it.

The Future

Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers shares her annual report on internet trends. Highly recommended.
Bertrand Duperrin: “We’ve been saying for long that machines were good at doing what humans were bad at. Today we’re on our way to use machines to do what humans are good at.”
Gary Drenik looks at the problems with Big Data and sees a solution: Little Data.

Glen Alleman elegantly dismisses the underpinnings of a new eBook, “Dealing with Complexity in Software Projects.”
Don Beckett expounds on the details of setting a software project up for success.
Alan Garvey shares some best practices for communicating with senior executives.
Julia Tang Peters leverages results of a recent leadership survey to recommend avoiding three behaviors.
Martin Webster continues his series on leadership models with a review of transactional leadership.
Margaret Meloni recounts an anecdote that illustrates the way trust should work.
Bruce Benson suggests that we sometimes get resistance, not because of what we ask of people, but how they perceive the request. And the requestor!
Todd Williams deconstructs the problems facing the public sector in executing on projects.
Kenneth Darter notes the principle similarity between managing a project and writing a book: getting stuck in the middle, without a way to continue.
Michiko Diby makes the case for a minimum viable RACI chart.
Elizabeth Harrin posts her first Carnival of Project Management roundup of 2014.

Bob Tarne is starting an ambitious series on the principles of Agile.
John Goodpasture explains the difference between traditional planning and Agile planning.
Johanna Rothman shares a great insight on scaling Agile: Scale out.
Mike Cohn addresses a common question: what is the best way to be Agile?
Adrian Fittolani explores the ways in which values drive ideas, which drive practices.

Michael Greer shares his thoughts on how to get your first job in project management.
Ron Rosenhead advises us to emulate the project managers we think did a great job.
Cassie Boorn gets mugged, and finds a lesson about managing your career.

Enjoy!