New project management articles published on the web during the week of December 21 – 27. We give you a high-level view so you can read what interests you. Recommended:

Must read!

Rich Maltzman reports on some notable progress in achieving a shift to sustainability, by multi-national corporations. Start 2016 with green eyes!

Matthew Heusser interviews Tara Nicholson on IT program and project management at Scripps Network, home of HGTV and other lifestyle media outlets. Ask This Old House is Agile?

Penelope Trunk summarizes research into negotiating strategies. Lots of links, so be prepared to Pocket them for later. You use Pocket, right?

Established Methods

Bruce Harpham interviews Joanne Hohenadel, senior project manager at University Health Network in Toronto. They won the 2015 PMI Award for Project Excellence – North America.

Dave Prior interviews Shane Hastie, John D. Cook, and Troy Magennis on a range of Agile and project management topics. Just 42 minutes, safe for work.

Wanda Curlee uses concentric circle diagrams to illustrate a portfolio management decision. Excellent – simple graphics that clearly show a complex comparison!

Glen Alleman: “Like value, waste is rarely defined by those performing the work. It’s defined by those paying for the work.”

Jeff Collins provides executive-level input to the activity of reducing risk to projects.

Mark Lukens makes the case for incremental improvements as less destabilizing than huge, sweeping initiatives.

Robert Charette shares a lesson learned from pulling together a report on a decade’s worth of failed projects: We don’t do post-mortems very well.

Ryan Ogilvie uses an Indiana Jones metaphor to point out that root cause analysis isn’t all that’s required to get to a solution.

Thomas Carney covers the state of the art in cross-browser testing.

Agile Methods

Dmitri Khanine continues his series on moving from gathering requirements to user experience engineering.

Mike Griffiths not only updated his PMI-ACP Exam Prep book, he updated the sample test questions. Here, he shares 20 of them.

Johanna Rothman is asking for reader input before updating her book, “Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase your capacity and finish more projects.”

Judith Mary Khan lists nearly two dozen things to not do when moving to Agile methods.

Vishal Venkatesan outlines how they scaled Agile at Spotify.

Renee, Tony, and Craig get together for a wide-ranging discussion on Agile in Australia, Etsy, Feedly, Sanjiv Augustine’s new book, and much more. Just over an hour, safe for work.

Applied Leadership

Art Petty reminds us that results are not directly related to effort.

Seth Godin notes that exceptional results come from abandoning the need for the approval of our peers. Try not to think of Donald Trump when you read that …

Michael Lopp opens up the draft “Management Glossary” for the forthcoming third edition of Managing Humans.

Bertrand Duperrin opens a discussion of employee experience, the consumerization of worklife, engagement, and productivity. Yes, “the employee as a customer” is a thing.

Betcher Robert says that we can reduce the number of code defects by 50%, by holding developers and the business accountable.

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