New project management articles published on the web during the week of May 23 – 29. And this week’s video: a satire of television news from The Onion. Two minutes, completely unsafe for work, and absolutely hysterical. Television journalism is to journalism as television personality is to personality.

Must read (and hear)!

Lisette Sutherland interviews Leslie Truex, who has been blogging about working from home for nearly twenty years. Just 39 minutes, safe for work.

Dave Prior interviews Larissa Scordato, Patrice Colanecco Embry, Tera Caldwell Simon, and Natalie Warnert on gender bias in project management. Just over an hour, safe for work.

Tricia van der Grient interviews Anders Ericsson on his new book, “Peak,” and the science behind developing expertise.

Established Methods

Elizabeth Harrin tells us how to manage roles and responsibilities using the RACI chart and it’s sibling, the RASCI chart.

Ryan Ogilvie explains how to select metrics that are meaningful to business operations, and use them to optimize IT service delivery.

John Goodpasture finds project management lessons in the work and design approach of esteemed architect Frank Gehry.

Magnus Doll polled a number of project managers on line, asking them to identify the hurdles they commonly encounter. Here he summarizes each of them.

Ken Ashe tutors us on the Work Breakdown Structure.

Dmitriy Nizhebetskiy gets into the detail of a software development WBS.

Rob England links the Cynefin model of complexity and knowledge to the need to experiment, resulting in what he refers to as Noble Failures.

Agile Methods

The Clever PM explains how the product manager should work with the sales folks to get the best results for both Development and Sales.

Johanna Rothman examines an organizational case where Agile is just … wrong.

Mike Griffiths continues his assessment of Bimodal IT with a concept from Jim Collins, “The Genius of the AND.”

Esther Derby shares the key bullet points from her keynote at Big Apple Scrum, as captured by one of the attendees.

Derek Huether wants to distinguish between Work in Process and Work in Progress.

Srividya Natarajan explains how her distributed Scrum team was organized to maximize delivered value.

Applied Leadership

Scott Berkun gives us the short version of how to be a better public speaker. Considering he wrote an entire book on the subject, this is definitely short.

Elise Stevens has rounded up six resources to help you improve your delegation skills.

Liane Davey begins a three-part series on transitioning a team to new leadership by looking at the good and bad reasons to want to succeed your boss.

Bruce Harpham introduces us to job shadowing, as a technique to improve job mobility within the organization. Retention depends on job satisfaction and growth.

Susanne Madsen tutors us on becoming proactive project managers.

Seth Godin looks at the economics of being proactive.

Project Risk Management

Harry Hall distinguishes between threats and issues and how each should be tracked.

David Hillson follows up on his risk facilitator article by mapping each facilitation style to common risk identification techniques.

Cornelius Fichtner presents a free project risk management PDF eBook by Dr. Jim Young, “Managing Murphy.” Just 6 minutes, safe for work.

The folks in this balloon have the right idea – we waved at each other as they floated by our house. Enjoy the holiday weekend!

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