New project management articles published on the web during the week of December 16 – 22. And this week’s video: Mike Clayton updates a holiday favorite with the twelve project management days of Christmas. No singing and no birds in fruit trees; just short reminders of key themes in project management. Six minutes, safe for work.

Ethics, Business Acumen and Strategy

Bas Kohnke points out four trends in the gig economy, people enablement, chatbots, and AI that will further change the workplace in 2020. 4 minutes to read.

Rashmi Sharma describes seven tech trends about to transform business in the coming decade. 6 minutes to read.

Kimberley Botwright reports on the furious growth of cross-border data transactions, and the growing body of regulations restricting it. Compliance will be one of the challenges of the 20’s. 4 minutes to read.

Managing Projects

Harold Kerzner identifies coming changes to the practice of project management. This will be the decade that project management becomes a strategic skill set. 6 minutes to read.

Harold Kerzner identifies coming changes to the practice of project management. This will be the decade that project management becomes a strategic skill set. 6 minutes to read. John Goodpasture shares an outline and general guidelines for writing an RFP. 4 minutes to read.

Brad Egeland describes what a project manager should be able to expect from the customer, the project team, and from senior management. 9 minutes to read all three.

Stephen Biddle tells us how to write a report. And just as important: how to not write a report. 3 minutes to read.

Jason Westland gives us an overview of IT governance, including definitions, frameworks, and planning. 6 minutes to read.

David Binny looks at the intricacies of the making a business case for a move to S/4HANA, before SAP ends support for ECC. Alternatives abound! 6 minutes to read.

Managing Software Development

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of Agile content, from innovation failures to better standups to actively doing nothing. 7 outbound links, 3 minutes to read.

Johanna Rothman expands a recent conversation with a project manager to illustrate the power of role titles. 6 minutes to read.

Louis-Philippe Carignan observes the impact of DevOps on Agile practices; specifically, the growing value of Kanban metrics as a substitute for story points. 6 minutes to read.

Bob Reselman outlines a strategy for testing in an event-driven application architecture. 7 minutes to read.

Chris Fox rants, “Testing is essential, but it’s secondary. Sorry.” 6 minutes to read.

Nels Hoenig shares an anecdote that underlines the value of validating data before proceeding to analysis. 5 minutes to read.

Applied Leadership

Art Petty analyzes the leader’s role in executing on strategy. 5 minutes to read.

Art Petty analyzes the leader’s role in executing on strategy. 5 minutes to read. Amy Jen Su examines the components of trust between manager and team to help us understand if we really trust each other. 10 minutes to read.

John Millen uses Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, and Elon Musk as examples of great communicators. 5 minutes to read.

Cybersecurity and Data Protection

Curtis Franklin explains how to approach API security. 5 minutes to read.

Edlyn Levine and Algirde Pipikaite assess the potential of cyberattacks that directly target the hardware in our infrastructure. 4 minutes to read.

Colin Jones updates us on developments in mobile two-factor authentication and security keys, in the wake of SIM-swapping attacks. 6 minutes to read.

Steven Melendez reports that ransomware attackers are now publishing stolen data from victims who don’t pay. Yes, this means they are leveraging GDPR fines. 2 minutes to read.

Pot Pourri

Leigh Espy primes the pump with 35 conversation-starter questions for social and networking events. Not just for the holidays! 5 minutes to read.

Harry McCracken extols the iPad as his personal gadget of the decade. 3 minutes to read.

Enjoy!

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