New project management articles published on the web during the week of September 2 – 8. And this week’s video: Sorrel Gilbert begins a series on the basics of project risk management. This segment is about risk categorization; 4 minutes to watch. She also posted a video on the risk life cycle, 6 minutes to watch. And Harry Hall posted his insights on qualitative risk analysis. 3 minutes, all safe for work.

Those are lenticular clouds over Mt. Rainier in the photo below. Sorry, UFO watchers!

Business Acumen and Strategy

Jay Chapel looks at the three common “as a service” models—SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS—in terms of providers, market share, and market trends. 4 minutes to read.

Curt Nickisch interviews Nobel-winning economist Oliver Hart and colleague Kate Vitasek on the use of relational contracts for complicated relationships, like outsourcing. Podcast, 23 minutes, or read the transcript in about 14 minutes.

Ann Saphir reports that trade policy uncertainty has reached levels not seen since the 1970’s, estimating lost output of roughly US$850B. Defensive tactics are in order. 3 minutes to read.

Managing Projects

John Goodpasture reports on his recent experience as a participant and observer of a group of small teams, engaged in a self-organizing 2 minutes to read.

Dale Howard shows how to add useful details to tasks in MS Project, using the Task Form. 5 minutes to read.

Mike Clayton shares five tips for keeping stakeholders engaged in your project. Video, 9 minutes, safe for work.

Dmitriy Nizhebetskiy defines 15 project management terms. 7 minutes to read, or watch the video—13 minutes, safe for work.

Brook Appelbaum makes the business case for Lean Project Portfolio Management. 5 minutes to read.

Ankit Rathi reflects on the reasons why artificial intelligence projects fail. 4 minutes to read.

Managing Software Development

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of agile content, from the “demise” of Six Sigma to Zombie Scrum to product roadmaps that suck. 7 outbound links, 3 minutes to read.

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of agile content, from the “demise” of Six Sigma to Zombie Scrum to product roadmaps that suck. 7 outbound links, 3 minutes to read. Johanna Rothman tells us why she prefers to measure cycle time rather than velocity. 4 minutes to read.

Chris Arend maps out three developing trends for commercial chatbots. 2 minutes to read.

Patrick Lee Scott explains why complex architectures and solutions should be avoided, or at least mitigated. 4 minutes to read.

Ron Jeffries argues that the primary defining characteristic of Agile and Scrum is working software. 5 minutes to read.

Glen Alleman adds some clarifying detail to Ron Jeffries’ post on “doing” Agile and Scrum. Just a minute to read.

Applied Leadership

Kathryn Heath and Brenda Wensil share the results of their research into creating a diverse culture. As it turns, out we need to begin with our meetings. 5 minutes to read.

Scott Steinberg coaches us on telling our teams about a management decision that they won’t like, when you don’t like it, either. 4 minutes to read.

Dan Rockwell points out three natural (more or less) human behaviors that can make a leader behave badly. 2 minutes to read.

Cybersecurity and Data Protection

Ayodeji Onibalusi defines and explains the benefits of Zero Trust Networking. 4 minutes to read.

Ayodeji Onibalusi defines and explains the benefits of Zero Trust Networking. 4 minutes to read. Terry Sweeney walks us through eight ways to spot an insider threat. Good news: negligence is more common that malicious intent. 10 minutes or so to flip through all nine pages.

Adam Levin says that companies can have their identities stolen, too. Or at least, damaged: think about the hack of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account—even the CEO isn’t safe? 4 minutes to read.

George Williams tutors us on how to defend our corporate data against ransomware attacks. 4 minutes to read.

Pot Pourri

Loren Grush reports on the failed communications between SpaceX and the European Space Agency that added risk to what should have been a routine maneuver. 5 minutes to read.

MIT Technology Review describes a proof-of-concept AI system that identified a new potential drug to treating fibrosis in 46 days. Just over a minute to read.

Martin Armstrong reports on a Glassdoor UK survey of the most hated bits of office jargon. Punch a puppy? WTF? Just a minute to read.

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