New project management articles published on the web during the week of July 7 – 13. We gather all of this stuff so you don’t have to search for it! Recommended:

Risk Management

• Craig Brown observes the effect that the company’s financial performance has on how we manage change.
• Adam Stone reports on efforts to secure the energy grid from malicious mischief. Or even acts of war.
• Gina Abudi suggests we consider the challenges of cultural diversity on geographically distributed teams in terms of risks we need to manage.

PM Best Practices

• Glen Alleman notes that the Minimum Viable Product mindset, popular in certain product development circles, doesn’t consider enterprise business needs.
• Nick Heath reports on some of the imbedded system prototypes and single-function servers built using the $35 Raspberry Pi Linux computer.
• Andy Jordan describes his vision of an enterprise PMO, with a number of support structures to provide guidance throughout the organization.
• Nick Pisano replies to my recent post on defining project success, centered on disruptive change and the potential impact of change management.
• Lynda Bourne explains stakeholder theory, as conceived by Ed Freeman. The ethics component matters deeply!
• Suzanne Lucas recently saw an article on bad parenting behaviors by a British nanny; Suzanne interprets the same behaviors as bad management.
• Bart Gerardi enumerates the costs of scope and requirements changes on the project, and on the team.
• Cheri Baker has been experimenting again. This time: co-working! Also known as, “Working in an open space with other people around.” Well, maybe not …
• Kerry Wills objects to long Emails, for many reasons. For one thing, they’re … long.

Agile Methods

• Mike Cohn suggests we select backlog items that will serve an additional purpose – like risk management, or the chance for the team to learn.
• Henny Portman shares the white paper (in English) synopsis of his recent book (in Dutch) on managing Agile projects, using Atern.
• Donna Reed considers a range of metrics for measuring the success of an Agile project manager.
• Vandana Roy considers the merits of Scrum and Kanban, and which one would prevail in a fight. No, not really …

Professional Development

• Elizabeth Harrin extracts some key points from “Business Networking,” by Will Kintish, to explain why you must network.
• Penelope Trunk explains why keeping you options open leads to failure; only full commitment succeeds!
• Lyndsey Gilpin trots out some statistics on the state of women in technology. If you’re a people manager, you have a chance to help shape a better future.

Podcasts and Videos

• Cesar Abeid interviews Jonathan Creaghan on why we just make stuff up, more or less. Just 40 minutes, safe for work. I’m not making this up …
• Samad Aidane share a four part video version of his “ERP Projects: The Complete Survival Manual.” Each part is about 11 minutes, and all are safe for work.
• Craig Smith interviews Alan Bustamante on conflict resolution and starting Xcelerate Partners, as well as all things Agile.  Just 36 minutes, safe for work.

Enjoy!