New project management articles published on the web during the week of February 3 – 9. And this week’s video: a short film by Barnaby Roper. When a candidate interviews for a new job at an “unorthodox” firm, the process quickly becomes, as Mal Reynolds would say, morbid and creepifying. 10 minutes, safe for work. But not completely.

Ethics, Business Acumen and Strategy

Tom Kinnaird and Hal Movius coach us on dealing with a procurement team in a competitive bidding process. 7 minutes to read.

Lauren Wiseman examines the business case for a private cloud and criteria for choosing a provider. 4 minutes to read.

Greg Satell invokes Richard Feynman and Ken Olsen in distinguishing between facts and beliefs in a post-truth world. 5 minutes to read.

Managing Projects

William Davis shows the power of visual representations of probabilistic forecasts. 5 minutes to read.

William Davis shows the power of visual representations of probabilistic forecasts. 5 minutes to read. John Goodpasture invokes Nate Silver in expressing the sources and influences of uncertainty in the Bayesian process of estimation. 2 minutes to read.

Dale Howard gives us a tour of the most important Options settings in MS Project. 6 minutes to read.

Elizabeth Harrin reflects on her evolving use of a work OS for managing her projects. 5 minutes to read.

Mike Clayton delivers a comprehensive comparison of the PRINCE2 and PMP credentials, requirements, and potential market considerations. 12 minutes, safe for work.

The nice folks at Clarizen enumerate the project management trends to watch in 2020, a month or so in. 3 minutes to read.

Managing Software Development

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of Agile content, from good questions to handling product catastrophes to psychological safety. 7 outbound links, 4 minutes to read.

Eric Proegler notes the risks inherent in software development, based on the very public failure of the app used to tabulate the results of the Iowa caucus. 3 minutes to read.

Rubens Cantuni suggests that it’s time to abandon the desktop metaphor for operating systems. He makes a good point. 5 minutes to read.

Kristin Jackvony presents the business case for a serverless architecture. 4 minutes to read.

Mikkel Sørseth suggests alternatives to software testing automation tools that require testers to acquire programming skills. 2 minutes to read.

Jesse Fewell speechifies, “There’s no such thing as a failed Agile transformation!” There’s only the degree of progress in making change. Video, 6 minutes, safe for work.

Applied Leadership

Judith Humphrey list five concrete indicators that someone is socially adept. More generally applicable than that video at the top of the page! 3 minutes to read.

Judith Humphrey list five concrete indicators that someone is socially adept. More generally applicable than that video at the top of the page! 3 minutes to read. Dave Prior interviews David Marquet, author of Turn the Ship Around, on his new book, Language is Leadership. 39 minutes, safe for work.

Dan Rockwell shares some tips for making your one-on-one meetings more productive. 2 minutes to read, plus a five-minute audio recording, safe for work.

Cornelius Fichtner interviews Benjamin Anyacho and Bruce Moore on how to create a robust knowledge-sharing environment. Podcast, 39 minutes, safe for work.

Cybersecurity and Data Protection

Lilly Smith observes that user consent, as stipulated by the GDPR, is being circumvented to some degree by consent management platforms. 7 minutes to read.

Michael Kan reports on a phishing attack by suspected Iranian hackers, by posing as a WSJ journalist seeking an interview. Excellent details. 2 minutes to read.

Kamlesh Kumar compiled a list of critical steps to secure a website. 5 minutes to read, only slightly technical.

Pot Pourri

Suzanne Lucas reports that there is some positive corporate jargon that we like to hear, as opposed to the negative stuff we despise. 2 minutes to read.

Shannon Taylor assesses the claim that workplace rudeness is on the increase. Short answer: maybe not … 3 minutes to read.

McKlayne Marshall has curated a list of available technologies that facilitate remote work, and a few technologies on the near horizon. 6 minutes to read.

Enjoy!

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