New project management articles published on the web during the week of June 30 – July 6. We gather all of this stuff so you don’t have to search for it! Recommended:

Risk Management

Andy Jordan consider the decision whether to manage risks at the program level or push them down to the project level.

Nittin Mittal identifies the top eight risks in Agile projects.

Matthew Squair prepared a hazard checklist for a course he was teaching, and decided to share it with us. It’s an interesting list of risk sources!

Ron Rosenhead asked the class in one of his project management courses what goes wrong in their projects. Yup, more sources of risk!

PM Best Practices

Pawel Brodzinski challenges the default option of “grow” with an alternative: preserve the culture.

Elizabeth Harrin reviews “The Presentation Book,” by Emma Ledden.

Robert Wysocki and Joseph Matthews continue their series on the Occasional PM, with a look at three types of projects they are likely to encounter.

Glen Alleman reminds us that the ability to release software faster than the business operating rhythm will allow the changes to be absorbed is not very valuable.

Johanna Rothman recounts a story of her encounter with a manager who discouraged his people from bringing him problems.

Martin Webster continues his series on leadership models with a detour into motivation theories, and John Adair’s Action Centered Leadership model.

Brett Beaubouef suggests that we should earn the right to challenge the requirements we elicit from our customers.

Chuck Morton continues his series on deconstructing project management with a look at the nature of program management.

Agile Methods

Bob Tarne notes the biggest challenge for organizations embracing Agile methods for the first time: the time commitment required for business people.

Mike Cohn provides interesting examples of “decorating” user roles in user stories, by adding simple (but meaningful) adjectives.

Jesse Fewell finds a better tool for representing Scrum roles and responsibilities than the RACI chart: an “Owns-Helps” chart.

Craig Brown shares an interesting diagram that helps explain what practices play to the strengths of different cultures.

John Goodpasture explains why Agile is, by nature if not in practice, a recursive methodology.

Venkatesh Krishnamurthy tells a simple story of two waste bins that speaks volumes about changing behavior.

Working Smarter

Mike Donoghue has a few tips for the traveling IT consultant. Or as I classify myself, the migrant computer worker.

Sonia Liang wants to help you quit an anti-productive habit: multi-tasking.

Alina Vrabie explains why Inbox Zero is so hard to reach, and nearly impossible to maintain.

Suzanne Lucas points to some recent research that debunks a few meeting collaboration “tricks.”

Podcasts and Videos

Cesar Abeid interviews Roy Gatling, on his experiences at a fast-growing firm (Dell) trying to perfect the practice of project management. Just 51 minutes, safe for work.

Soma Bhattacharya shares a TED talk by Kelly McGonigal on tiny interventions to develop willpower that she found particularly useful. Just 54 minutes, safe for work.

Enjoy!

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