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New PM Articles for the Week of April 29 – May 5

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New project management articles published on the web during the week of April 29 – May 5.  Dave and Sandra read all of this stuff so you don’t have to!  Recommended:

  • Avinoam Nowogrodski sees us entering a new era in project management – social, personalized, and empowering – reflecting the future of work.
  • Speaking of the future of work, Chess Media is conducting a survey on how social media, BYOB, and flexible work arrangements are being adopted, today.
  • Elizabeth Harrin summarizes Pernille Eskerod and Anna Lund Jepsen’s book, Project Stakeholder Management.
  • Andy Jordan notes that one of the most surprising failures of governance seems to happen in the project management office.
  • Jeff Furman poses an ethics case study, from real life.
  • Paul Culmsee demonstrates dialog mapping, using Compendium, and introduces the concept of powerful questions.  Fifteen minutes, safe for work.
  • Ted Hardy says that if your stakeholders won’t give you an answer, offer a really bad suggestion.  Like lunch at McDonald’s.
  • Donna Reed shares a recorded presentation by Vicky Haney, “Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers and Business Analysts.”  One hour, safe for work.
  • Roz Baker explains the difference between a project management framework and a software development life cycle model.  And potatoes and tomatoes.
  • Chuck Morton continues his series on project change management, with the observation that change cuts across all PMBOK knowledge areas.
  • Glen Alleman offers “hard” definitions and principles of risk management, his favorite risk management process diagram, and sources of failure.
  • Patrick Richard shares his comments on a post by Glen Alleman on cost and schedule estimating, with an observation about story points.
  • Samad Aidane warns that a project manager should never, EVER agree to be the project sponsor and project manager at the same time.
  • Abid Mustafa shares his perspective as an IT executive on the best way to utilize an executive as a project sponsor.
  • Lou Adler, recruiter extraordinaire, says there are only four jobs – thinkers, builders, improvers, and producers.
  • Penelope Trunk offers her take on why Jason Collins should be a positive career example for everyone.
  • Will Kelly explains how MS Project 2013 integrates with the SaaS solution called Mavelink to form a comprehensive project team solution.
  • Jerry Manas extracts the key takeaways from the recent “Resource Management and Capacity Planning Benchmark Study.”

Enjoy!

New PM Articles for the Week of March 4 –10

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New project management articles published on the web during the week of March 4 – 10.  Dave and Sandra read all of this stuff so you don’t have to!  Recommended:

  • Scott Matteson looks through Google Glass for business applications.  Will you find this new consumer technology in one of your projects next year?
  • Elizabeth Harrin interviews Andrew Makar on managing your professional brand, and why a Facebook picture of you in a toga might cost you a job interview.
  • Samad Aidane interviews Dr.Aaron Shenhar on the next generation of project managers, and having fun managing projects.  Just 32 minutes, safe for work.
  • Steve Hart shares the 10 necessary capabilities of a Project Manager.
  • Dave Prior interviews Jim Benson, co-author of Personal Kanban, on applying visual methods to understand and manage your work. Part 1 is 23 minutes, safe for work.
  • Tristan Wember provides an overview of the four main forms of resistance to change.
  • Kailash Awati notes that while business intelligence is useful for monitoring operations, it isn’t particularly useful for making strategic decisions.
  • Glen Alleman looks at identifying trends in earned value management data.
  • Craig Brown offers a list of “audit” questions, for you to do a project self-examination.
  • Bruce Benson wants to get rid of those political maneuvers that add so much overhead to our projects.
  • John Reiling shares an example of “just one small request.”  After all, it’s only an inch – how much could it be?
  • Toni Bowers points out some things that probably remove the next time you update your resume.
  • Joel Bancroft-Connors and Hogarth note that one size doesn’t fit all, even at Yahoo.
  • Chip Camden weighs in on whether a PM with no experience as a software developer can effectively manage a software development project.
  • Mark Langley, President and CEO of PMI, introduces some key lessons learned from their “2013 Pulse of the Profession” report.
  • Johanna Rothman continues her series on organizing an Agile program.
  • Jesse Fewell keeps hearing people say things about Scrum that just ain’t so.
  • Jeff Oltmann gives us some thoughts on when to use traditional planning methods, and when to use Agile methods.
  • Shim Marom says, “If you can’t articulate it, you can’t deliver it.”
  • Patrick Richard summarizes the key lessons from a recent webinar called, “The Illusion and Promise of Self-organizing Teams.”
  • Roz Baker explains the basics of delegation.
  • John Carroll says, “Pushy project managers are not good project managers.”.

Enjoy!

New PM Articles for the Week of February 11 – 17

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New project management articles published on the web during the week of February 11 – 17.  Dave and Sandra read all of this stuff so you don’t have to!  Recommended:

  • Aaron Smith shares an infographic that highlights key findings of their research into the characteristics of distributed Agile teams.
  • Andrew Filev offers some ideas to avoid the pitfalls of managing distributed teams.
  • Elizabeth Harrin shares her round up of the five best project management articles of January and February.
  • Joe McKendrick says Dice is reporting the biggest jump in tech salaries in a decade.
  • Justin James loves IT.  Let him count the ways …
  • Cornelius Fichtner suggests some strategies for deciding when to take the PMP exam this year – before, or after the change to PMBOK 5th Edition?
  • Peter Saddington has found a hidden treasure for Agile designers.
  • Craig Brown is not impressed with his recent user experience with the Kindle app on his tablet.  New concept: “UX Debt.”  Like technical debt, but …
  • David Rico continues his series on the emergence of Agile project management frameworks.
  • Shim Marom advises against using Agile because you had a bad experience once with the “old” way.
  • John Roberts argues that project managers have to master the leadership of change.
  • Samad Aidane interviews Doug Walton on how Cisco Systems does organization change management and the ramifications for project managers.  Just 32 minutes, safe for work.
  • Martin Webster reflects on leading imperfect change, as opposed to paralysis while pursuing perfection.
  • Roz Baker has the do’s and don’ts of getting your project sponsor to make a decision.
  • Michael Wood reflects on the state of The Cloud, as we begin 2013, and looks at how “as a service” offerings have already become mainstream.
  • Kevin Korterud shares three timeless project management rules.
  • Dave Kerpen lists nine business books that he regularly gives away to employees and friends.
  • Bruce McGraw says that integrity is not a soft skill.
  • Johanna Rothman admits to having a bad manager day.  And explains why it’s important to admit it.
  • Saira Karim explains the four phases of contract negotiation.
  • Kerry Wills and his colleagues practice peer mentorship.
  • Tristan Wember says that the first step in changing your team’s behavior is changing your own behavior.

Enjoy!