New project management articles published on the web during the week of September 16 – 22. And this week’s video: Mike Clayton advises us on how to succeed in our next project management job interview. 16 minutes, safe for work.
Business Acumen and Strategy
- Walter Frick reports on efforts to quantify the cost of Brexit uncertainty: executives are spending a lot of time preparing, but no one knows what they are preparing for. 4 minutes to read.
- Greg Satell notes that the Revolution is over and Digital won. Now, here’s what we need to do in order to be a part of the next revolution. 5 minutes to read.
- Senior members of the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management discuss shareholder value and the role of the corporation, going forward. 10 minutes to read.
Managing Projects
Elizabeth Harrin interviews Carole Osterweil, author of Project Delivery, Uncertainty and Neuroscience: A Leader’s Guide to Walking in Fog. Video, 24 minutes, safe for work.
- Rich Mironov shares tips for pulling data science into product development processes. Useful for both product managers and project managers. 7 minutes to read.
- Alison Coleman highlights seven trends that continue to shape the way project management is evolving. 4 minutes to read.
- Michael Wagner outlines the risks associated with modern technologies and proposes new ethical perspectives on the delivery of projects and outcomes. 9 minutes to read.
- Pat Weaver posts a new paper and a presentation on technical debt, examining the London Crossrail project. 9 minutes or so to read both.
- Ben Aston explains the alternatives available for Mac users who are also MS Project users. 9 minutes to read.
Managing Software Development
Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of agile content, from customer journey teams to understanding user research to product-market fit. 7 outbound links, 3 minutes to read.
- Johanna Rothman begins a series that expands on the idea of a minimum viable product with other minimum outcomes. 4 minutes to read.
- Nicola Owen maps the ways in which psychological safety adds value in three Scrum ceremonies. 5 minutes to read.
- Ignaco Piantanida tutors us on software architecture, with examples. 8 minutes to read.
- Manjunath Poola makes the case for applying microservices to the front end of an application. 2 minutes to read.
- Glen Alleman links to an ISO standard and five methods for software development estimation using function points. 2 minutes to read.
Applied Leadership
Leigh Espy explains Bikeshedding, an example of Parkinson’s Law of Triviality, and how to avoid letting the trivial-but-familiar take up all available meeting time. 5 minutes to read.
- Michelle Cheng recaps the findings of 200 scientific studies on how to have effective meetings. 2 minutes to read.
- Suzanne Lucas shares ten behaviors that establish you as a leader. 3 minutes to read.
- Lisette Sutherland interviews Magda Ferretti on sharing leadership in virtual teams. Video, 38 minutes, safe for work.
Cybersecurity and Data Protection
- Terry Sweeney advocates for privacy impact assessments (PIA) in order to help spot risks early in the product development cycle. 3 minutes to read.
- Jesse Almeda warns that data breach costs will get worse before they get better. 4 minutes to read.
- CV Madhukar looks at how privacy tech is re-defining the data economy. 4 minutes to read.
Pot Pourri
Michael Gorman suggests ten training exercises for your brain. I gave up Sudoku for Spider Solitaire a few years ago—try playing with four suits at once. 4 minutes to read.
- Stav Ziv explains the combination resume—part reverse chronological, part functional—from who should use one to structure to an actual example. 10 minutes to read.
- Martin Giles reports that Google has demonstrated a quantum computer with a calculation that took 3 minutes, 20 seconds. The most powerful supercomputer, Summit, would have taken 10,000 years to complete the same chore. 3 minutes to read, unless you’re a quantum computer.
Enjoy!
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New PM Articles for the Week of September 16 – 22
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New project management articles published on the web during the week of September 16 – 22
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Dave Gordon
The Practicing IT Project Manager LLC
