New project management articles published on the web during the week of April 17 – 23. And this week’s video: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West introduce their new 1 credit hour course at the University of Washington on Calling Bullshit. Eight minutes, and I could say it was safe for work, but I’d be full of shit.

Must read!

Joseph Kelly makes the case that the role of the Entrepreneur is to create new Truths. And along the way, some of these Truths may not be absolute. It’s about creation, not morality. Read this with an open mind and be prepared to come back to it later.

Will Knight points out a problem with Deep Learning artificial intelligence applications: since they learned by observing human behavior, we can’t explain how they make decisions.

Michael O’Brochta explains how sunk costs, groupthink, escalation of commitment, and conflicts of interest make failing projects so hard to kill.

Established Methods

Robert Wysocki elaborates on the co-manager model for complex projects, where a product manager and a process manager collaborate to lead a combined team.

Harry Hall catalogs some actions we can take to recognize and reward our project teams.

Elise Stevens interviews Hans Arnbjerg on how the PMO can help project managers engage with their stakeholders.

Mike Clayton a list of 22 excellent project management podcasts—“[some] extinct, some dormant, and some highly active.”

Alex Puscasu looks at the potential upside of integrating Scrum into Prince2.

Lew Sauder uses the Fitbit as an introduction to measures of project health: one metric does not tell a meaningful story.

Agile Methods

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly round-up of Agile content, from the C-suite’s fondness for Big Bangs to what we can learn from the customer service debacle at United Airlines, to the Museum of Failure.

Jordan Koschel explains how to deal with design debt. Like technical debt, only more visible to your user community.

Anurag Prakash takes a critical look at the way burn-downs are used in practice. Let project structure drive your choice of metrics.

The Clever PM interviews one of his mentors, Rich Mironov. Based on this interview, I’m now following Rich’s blog.

Jesse Fewell addresses the question: where is the project manager role in Agile methods? Just 7 minutes, safe for work.

Ryan Ripley interviews Lisa Crispin and Amitai Schleier on the fine art of co-presenting at conferences, co-writing books, and Agile testing. Just 44 minutes, safe for work.

Applied Leadership

Glen Alleman identifies seven key behaviors that can be found in a weak leader.

Coert Visser examines the difference between (benign) admiration and (malicious) envy and how each motivates us.

Jayath Jayarathna guides us through managing subject matter experts.

Elizabeth Harrin interviews Karen Chovan, project manager and advocate for clean, lean, and green solutions.

Technology, Techniques, and Human Behavior

Naomi Caietti explains the six emotional intelligence behaviors and skill sets necessary for project and program managers.

John Goodpasture shares his FAQ on systems engineering.

Brendan Toner lists his ten most useful iPad apps. I have five of them on my iPad and similar apps for four of the others. And we both drink Bushmills, so there’s that.

Working and the Workplace

Ron Rosenhead notes a survey of workers in various professions that found only the legal profession is more boring that project management. Statisticians and journalists didn’t make the list, which makes it somewhat suspect …

Andy Kaufman interviews author Amy Blankson on the strategies we can use to stay productive and happy when surrounded by interactive tech. Just 49 minutes, safe for work.

Lisette Sutherland interviews Jerry Koch-Gonzales on the practice of Sociocracy in group meetings. Just 38 minutes, safe for work.

Enjoy!

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