New project management articles published on the web during the week of March 11 – 17. And this week’s video: Harry Hall walks us through two very simple methods for conducting a qualitative risk analysis. 4 minutes, safe for work.

Business Acumen and Strategy

Nicolas Bloom and colleagues report on their survey of 7,500 business executives on the UK on Brexit as an uncertainty event. The impact is already evident. 6 minutes to read. Side note: Ireland is experiencing a boom in passport requests as more people living in the UK realize how difficult it will be to travel for business.

Hines Vaughn contrasts the California Consumer Privacy Act with the GDPR and notes a difference in consent—opt-in versus opt-out. 4 minutes to read.

Mihnea Moldoveanu finds a root cause for why AI underperforms business expectations: we don’t translate business problems into computational business problems. 4 minutes to read.

Managing Projects

Mike Griffiths teaches us how to create the truly great charter your project deserves. 10 minutes to read.

Mike Griffiths teaches us how to create the truly great charter your project deserves. 10 minutes to read. Becca Bruggman tells us all about what technical program managers do all day. Yup—been there, done that. 8 minutes to read.

Audrius Zujus prepares us to manage a project that includes virtual reality technology development. 14 minutes to read.

Mike Clayton explains another term of art: value engineering. Video, 5 minutes, safe for work.

Elizabeth Harrin describes the PMI-SP scheduling credential and shares her opinion of a prep course for it. 6 minutes to read.

Managing Software Development

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of Agile content, from practices adoption to leadership health checks to being done with customer discovery. 7 outbound links, 3 minutes to read.

Johanna Rothman contemplates alternative ways of getting close enough to the customer to create value. 3 minutes to read.

Karlo Smid presents a concise, value-oriented definition of a software bug. “Remember that design and architectural errors are bugs, too.” 2 minutes to read.

Roger Swannell suggests thinking of velocity as a product measurement, rather than a team 2 minutes to read.

Henny Portman reviews Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery, by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines. 3 minutes to read.

Camilo Gomez shares some actions we should take to improve intercultural communications when outsourcing software development. 7 minutes to read.

Tony Ho Tran covers the pros and cons of the hamburger menu. You know: that little icon on phone apps that resembles the Chinese character for numeral 3. 12 minutes to read.

Applied Leadership

Kiron Bondale says that transparency is necessary but not sufficient: we must be responsibly 2 minutes to read.

Syed Moize explains emotional intelligence in the context of project management. 6 minutes to read.

Tom Cagley began a series on the value of behavioral constraints, using the metaphor of guardrails. 4 minutes to read; 3 minutes for part two.

Research and Insights

The U. of Washington promotes a new website by two professors challenging us to identify which of two photos was generated by artificial intelligence. Just what we needed—more fake people. 3 minutes to read.

The U. of Washington promotes a new website by two professors challenging us to identify which of two photos was generated by artificial intelligence. Just what we needed—more fake people. 3 minutes to read. Hemel Vasavada Gill and Chakib Labibi summarize their research with Alexa users and their adoption curve for the Alexa voice interface. 8 minutes to read.

Yana Yelina presents short descriptions of several machine learning trends being followed by MIT professors and researchers. 5 minutes to read.

Olivia Goldhill reports that neuroscientists were able to predict decisions by monitoring brain activity a full 11 seconds before the subjects announced them. 3 minutes to read.

Working and the Workplace

Siva Prasad rounds up the most in-demand IT skills and certifications, from project management to DevOps to Big Data. 9 minutes to read.

Jack Vale considers the pros and cons of Email as the primary means of workplace communications. 4 minutes to read.

Dan Rockwell describes the coolest exercise in giving feedback I’ve ever heard of. 2 minutes to read.

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