New project management articles published on the web during the week of August 21 – 27. And this week’s video: Excel wizard Steve Equals True (get it?) shows how to create a project status spectrum chart in Excel. Just 8 minutes, safe for work.

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Artur Kiulian explains why your next boss may be a robot. 7 minutes to read.

Kara Swisher leads a techie discussion panel on the potential for finding tech workers in coal country. Podcast, just over an hour.

Bertrand Duperrin recounts a fascinating conversation: “I did not go to school. I went to YouTube.” Peer-to-peer education has become a powerful force. 3 minutes to read.

Established Methods

Elizabeth Harrin describes her new book: “Communicating Change: How to talk about project change.” 3 minutes to read (the article, not the book).

Elizabeth Harrin describes her new book: “Communicating Change: How to talk about project change.” 3 minutes to read (the article, not the book). Mike Clayton has curated a list of TED Talks for project managers. 24 outbound links, 5 minutes to browse, and hours of video content.

Glen Alleman describes the concept of operations and explains why it is so valuable to project success. 4 minutes to read.

Nick Pisano continues his examination of integrated project management, this time focusing on the economic aspects. 8 minutes to read.

Stuart Easton explains that PMO’s have super-powers. At least, in business terms. 5 minutes to read.

Allen Chilmeran describes key metrics that should be incorporated into project status reports. 10 minutes to read.

Peter Landau shares the ultimate project status reporting checklist. 5 minutes to read.

Agile Methods

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of Agile content, from feature factories (bad) to Agile project management (bad?) to creating psychological safety (undeniably good). 12 outbound links, 3 minutes to scan.

Eli Woolery interviews Irene Au, one of the people who designed Netscape and continues to influence design at Google and beyond. Podcast, 32 minutes.

Toyota alumnus Glen Morris explains the notion of Jidoka and what he and his team expect to gain from implementing self-monitoring machines. 4 minutes to read.

The Clever PM interviews Jay Stansell of the Product Coalition on the start of the craft and applying design thinking to daily life. 6 minutes to read.

Applied Leadership

Harry Hall tutors us on the techniques that can be used for stakeholder analysis. 2 minutes to read.

Lynda Bourne describes a new metric for measuring the level of engagement that we need/want/expect/experience from our project stakeholders. 5 minutes to read.

Roy Naquin reviews the basic techniques we can use to influence our stakeholders. 4 minutes to read.

Art Petty tells us that we need to develop managers who lead—the behaviors of leadership are needed at all levels in the organization. 3 minutes to read.

Technology, Techniques, and Human Behavior

Rich Maltzman explains voltage optimization, and how organizations are saving money (and power) by changing their power supply to match their actual needs. 3 minutes to read.

Rich Maltzman explains voltage optimization, and how organizations are saving money (and power) by changing their power supply to match their actual needs. 3 minutes to read. John McIntyre describes Holly, the holiday-bot that queries their HR system for absences and uses Slack to tell the PMO lead which project managers are out of the office. 3 minutes to read.

Josh Wardini shared an extensive infographic on the history and current state of Poker-playing AI applications. 6 minutes to read.

Working and the Workplace

Leigh Espy tells why you need to determine the purpose of your next meeting in order to get the most out of everyone’s time. 3 minutes to read.

Michael Hyatt notes the point where delegation becomes an abdication of responsibility.

Lisette Sutherland curates comments from past interviews on the fine points of managing remote teams. Podcast, 20 minutes.

Michael Huber addresses overcoming isolation as a remote employee. 3 minutes to read.

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