New project management articles published on the web during the week of December 9 – 15. We read all of this stuff so you don’t have to! By the way: I’d really like you take my reader survey, so I can tailor the blog and other content to your needs in the New Year. Recommended:

Get Ready for the New Year!

Elizabeth Harrin makes her predictions for how the practice of project management will continue to evolve in 2014.

Kevin Kern also looks out to 2014, and sees some key trends for business and IT project management.

Cheri Baker looks back at how her personal strategic plan for 2013 helped her manage herself, and shares her template for 2014. And check out her new website!

Leadership

Vincent McGevna weighs in on the sources of a project manager’s authority: (mostly) soft power and (rarely) hard power.

Jeff Stibel tells the story of how his organization changed their culture to properly deal with failure, by simply writing on the wall of the office.

Steven Levy analyzes two aircraft crash landings, and finds some interesting lessons for project managers.

Mike Myatt, author of “Hacking Leadership,” argues that courage is a learnable trait.

Dave Wakeman shares his thoughts on what it takes to build a strong team.

Kailash Awati notes that flexibility is a platitude, disguising trade-offs that we might not otherwise make.

PM Best Practices

John Goodpasture has distilled eight safety critical principles from a list posted by Matthew Squair. Save them for your next risk management meeting!

Rich Maltzman interviews Mel Bost, author of “Lessons Learned: Taking Project Management to a New Level.”

Marian Haus continues her series on scheduling in an environment where there are several related projects, but no over-arching program.

Mary Shacklett has a list of actions that will help keep your project execution on track.

Mike Tressler suggests some guidelines for determining the appropriate level of documentation for a project, by relative sizing.

Henny Portman reviews “A fully documented sample PRINCE2 project,” from Frank Turley and Nadar Rad.

Brett Beaubouef explains his method for troubleshooting ERP implementation projects.

Mike Clayton distills managing a great project down to eight steps, and then compares them to some of his other favorite frameworks.

Podcasts and Videos

Cesar Abeid interviews fellow blogger Francis Hooke, who left a good job to start his own consulting business. A whole 54 minutes, but safe for work.

Dave Prior interviews Sam Barnes, former project manager who evolved to a development team manager, about his struggles as a client. Just 24 minutes, safe for work.

Cornelius Fichtner interviews Dave Cornelius on social media, mobile devices, analytics, and cloud computing converging to a disruptive force. Just 22 minutes, safe for work.

Agile Methods

Terry Bunio summarizes his approach to applying Agile methods on a recent data warehouse project. This one is a “saver!”

Andy Berner explains why constant velocity is a myth, and how you can still use velocity for planning and forecasting.

Pot Pouri

Anya Faingersh fields a question on how to act on our knowledge of the source of our biases, in our daily lives and professional interactions.

Michael Lopp thinks we can judge a conference by the badges they issue.

Allen Ruddock shares his letter to Santa Claus. “A fully engaged, committed, and understanding sponsor.” Not sure I’d want to come downstairs and find one under my tree …

Enjoy!

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