New project management articles published on the web during the week of February 13 – 19. And this week’s video: Jochen Menges explains how charismatic leaders speak to our emotions, and why we defer to them. Just 18 minutes, safe for work.

Must read (or Hear)!

Vicki Wrona concludes her four-part series on project management obstacles with her reflections on unrealistic expectations and micro-management.

Mike Griffiths explains how to apply Lean Thinking precepts to your PMO, to deliver the most value with the least waste and highest utilization of available talent.

Cornelius Fichtner extracts the answer to one question he asked in each of 14 interviews at the PMI Global Congress 2016: Which is the interpersonal skill that you attribute the most of our success in your career to? Just 24 minutes, safe for work.

Established Methods

Leigh Espy provides a complete, concise, and actionable tutorial on software project requirements.

Mark Mulally contemplates project management as a service function, and what that means to stakeholders, sponsors, and project managers.

Elise Stevens interviews Michel Dion on rescuing troubled projects with a brutal assessment and a new plan, followed by execution and intense monitoring. Just 24 minutes, safe for work.

Barry Hodge explains how to tailor Prince2 to each project. And yes, that’s an integral part of the method!

Harry Hall identifies seven common quality management failure modes.

Agile Methods

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of Agile content, from Agile tribes to the learning value of prototyping, to the Goldilocks product development timeframe.

Johanna Rothman shows how to maintain visibility over the work you postpone with a Parking Lot.

Ryan Ripley interviews Bryan Beecham on the importance of simplicity, psychological safety, and continuous improvement. Just over an hour, safe for work.

Jay Melone addresses the big question on Design sprints: how do you get from validation to execution?

Tamás Török links us to the best Slack integrations for distributed software teams.

Applied Leadership

John Goodpasture ruminates on the fiduciary nature of the project manager role.

Art Petty catalogs some of the awkward moments—the ones that trigger our negative emotions—and advises on how to handle them.

Grace Windsor explores ways to apply emotional intelligence techniques to enhance team collaboration.

Technology and Techniques

Mordaxus starts a series where he will complain about information security practices with a short didactic on security models.

Cathy Nolan reports on the growing use of Internet of Things technology by retailers, as they watch us shop and try to understand (and influence) our behavior.

Joe Wynne starts a series on managing robotic process automation projects for CRM applications. The fact that I can type this, you get what it means, and we both treat it as A Thing astounds me to no end.

Bill Gates wants us to tax the robots who take human jobs. Even the ones shaped like paper clips? OK, maybe that’s an obscure reference …

Working and the Workplace

Brendan Toner touts OneNote as the ultimate tool for blogging (I use it for just about all of my writing and note taking these days).

Bertrand Duperrin points to recent studies that found needlessly complex processes kill productivity and reduce employee engagement.

Elizabeth Harrin shares a long list of the small strategies that help her to be efficient in her multiple roles.

Lolly Daskal reminds us that time management is only one piece of the productivity and effectiveness puzzle.

Lisette Sutherland focuses on maintaining our health when working remotely by being mobile. Just 9 minutes, safe for work.

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