New PM Articles for the Week of July 14 – 20

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Garden picksNew project management articles published on the web during the week of July 14 – 20. We gather all of this stuff so you don’t have to search for it! Recommended:

PM Best Practices

  • Oleksandr Drozd shares a graphic on increasingly distributed teams, and some best practices for managing geographically distributed project teams.
  • Gina Abudi addresses the things we can do to facilitate decision making by members of our project team.
  • Elizabeth Harrin reports from the Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit, on a case study of a rollout of Microsoft solutions presented by Gérald Morin and a panel discussion on PPM.
  • Cecily Dennis and Dan Meers outline their process to develop data quality metrics, rapidly and repeatably.
  • Johanna Rothman has an article published in a new, on-line quarterly called “Women Testers.” It looks like it will be an excellent resource.
  • Nick Pisano gives us the benefit of his long experience with contract negotiations, in the form of critical success factors and an illustrative anecdote.
  • Bassam Zarkout gives an excellent overview of the relationship between reactive e-discovery and proactive information governance.
  • Calen Legaspi explores the productivity impact of accumulating technical debt.
  • Andreas Eisele looks at technical debt with a project manager’s eye, and sees four viable approaches to preserving maintainability.
  • John Reiling asks the rhetorical question, why is a PMO needed?

Agile Methods

  • Neil Killick shares his heuristic for “slicing” work into granular chunks, to facilitate collection of empirical data to support forecasting.
  • Mike Cohn suggests we simplify ordering our backlog with just two priorities: “now” and “not now.”
  • Andrea Brockmeier advocates for the daily standup, from a project manager’s perspective.

The Limits of Agility

  • Glen Alleman points out the problem with incremental delivery, when the customer can’t derive value from the interim releases.
  • Shim Marom sees a potential down side to the embrace of late changes inherent in Agile methods.
  • Tushar Patel notes that Agile development presents problems for project managers, who still have responsibilities to stakeholders outside the team.

Professional Development

  • Cheri Baker proposes a structure for ethical behavior in leaders and managers.
  • Mariel Norton explores the impact of body language in meetings.
  • Lindsay Scott explains how “impression management” applies in job interviews. Note that interviewers are trying to manage their impression of you, too!
  • Jen Skrabak sees the increasingly common chief strategy officer as a potential career opportunity for portfolio managers.

Podcasts and Videos

  • Cesar Abeid interviews Liz Pearce, CEO of project management software house LiquidPlanner. Just 22 minutes, safe for work.
  • Cornelius Fichtner interviews Wayne Turmel, who says we need to meet like we mean it. Just 36 minutes, safe for work.
  • Rich Maltzman and Dave Shirley share a Green IT webinar. Just over an hour, safe for work.
  • Dave Prior interviews Melanie Franklin on her new book, presenting an Agile framework for planning and implementing change. Just 24 minutes, safe for work.
  • Margaret Meloni provides some techniques for procrastinators. If you don’t click on this link right away, I’m sure she’ll understand.

Enjoy!