New project management articles published on the web during the week of November 5 – 11. And this week’s video: Suzanne Lucas chastises corporate HR for using the term talent to refer to their employees when the reality is that we should be looking for skills, which are a result of study and hard work. 8 minutes, safe for work.

Business Acumen and Strategy

Nate Lanxon visits Amazon’s newest UK fulfillment center and contemplates how human and robot collaboration will evolve. 3 minutes to read.

Ben Goertzl reports on the newest citizen of Saudi Arabia—a robot, named Sophia. Probably unrelated: will robots have to someday pay into Social Security? 12 minutes to read.

Kayla Matthews looks at the GDPR, now in place for about six months, and asks: have we (meaning society) accomplished anything? 4 minutes to read.

Managing Projects

Glen Alleman notes that “Project risk often comes from non-technical aspects of the initiative,” and proceeds to list a few dozen sources. Save this one! 2 minutes to read.

Glen Alleman notes that “Project risk often comes from non-technical aspects of the initiative,” and proceeds to list a few dozen sources. Save this one! 2 minutes to read. Satya Naryan Dash does a deep dive into qualitative risk analysis, including such things as appetite for risk and risk urgency. 10 minutes to read.

Leigh Espy explains “The Five Whys,” a technique for root-cause analysis. 4 minutes to read.

John Goodpasture shares a model for three broad “customer-facing” roles for establishing, maintaining, and leveraging relationships with the customer. 2 minutes to read.

Tzvi Zukerman shares an approach to generate lessons-learned from failed projects. 4 minutes to read.

Mike Clayton explains the PMI Talent Triangle: why it’s important and what resources are available to expand your skill set. 8 minutes to read.

The folks at Clarizen shared their list of six important project management influencers (and they included me, so I’m blushing). 3 minutes to read.

Managing Software Development

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of Agile content, from Enterprise Agile to servant leadership to working without managers. 7 outbound links, 3 minutes to read.

Danny Perez makes some suggestions on how to securely share passwords and other secrets within a larger team. 2 minutes to read.

Aaron Hodder provides a detailed description of lean testing concepts and practices. 9 minutes to read.

Robbin Schuurman describes and explains the background of five product owner maturity levels. 8 minutes to read.

Tom Cagely asserts that users stories are valuable when maintaining legacy applications as well as when developing new ones. 5 minutes to read.

Adam Auerbach explains that continuous testing requires more than simply test automation. 2 minutes to read.

Applied Leadership

Alexander Maasik curates his weekly list of leadership content, from managing through anger to saying no to making time for your passion project. 4 outbound links, 2 minutes to read.

Alexander Maasik curates his weekly list of leadership content, from managing through anger to saying no to making time for your passion project. 4 outbound links, 2 minutes to read. Lila MacLellan extracts key points from an interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: three characteristics to look for in leaders. 3 minutes to read.

Rasmus Hougaard observes that ego is the enemy of good leadership. 4 minutes to read.

Research and Insights

Sarah Kessler goes beyond the sexist hiring algorithm that Amazon has now discarded to ask: might this flawed tool still be better than a human performing the same task? 4 minutes to read.

Rahul Kapoor recaps his research into the decision for a company to self-disrupt—make significant changes to their business—in anticipation of a disruptive technology on the horizon. 7 minutes to read.

Keith Foote provides definitions and a bit of history for data repositories, from lakes to silos to warehouses. 6 minutes to read.

Working and the Workplace

Garland Coulson gives us an introduction to freelancing. Video, under five minutes, safe for work (aside from the subject matter).

Rebecca Addison gives us the executive summary of Upwork’s new survey of freelance workers in the United States. Technology is disrupting things here, too. 3 minutes to read.

Brendan Toner reviews Notability, which he says is about the best note-taking application on the market. 5 minutes to read.

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