New project management articles published on the web during the week of January 25 – 31. And this week’s video, in memory of Paul Kantner, who passed away on January 28: Wooden Ships, live in 1988.

Must read!

Corinne Purtill reports on a new study that indicates high-powered individuals working in a group can be less effective than a second-tier team. They spend as much energy on competition as on collaboration.

Esther Derby tells us how to collect and present both quantitative and qualitative data and present it for use in problem-solving meetings. This article is a keeper!

Ian Whittingham helps us apply attentiveness principles and an understanding of our cognitive biases in order to improve our information gathering.

Established Methods

Debasis Roy proposes adding task importance as a weight to measuring progress against our project plan.

Lynda Bourne notes that, since project risk management depends on historical data, we need to assess whether old data is still dependable.

Harry Hall gives us a tutorial on the process of identifying risks.

Cesar Abeid interviews Gary McGugan on change management. Just 47 minutes, safe for work.

Elise Stevens interviews William Peg on the fine points of managing procurement through contracts. Just 28 minutes, safe for work.

Nick Pisano argues that it is time for technology decision makers to replace “tools” thinking with “data” thinking.

Agile Methods

Martin Abbott and Mike Fisher describe the pros and cons of an Agile Organization, using Spotify as an illustrative case.

Daniel Zacarias explains his strategy for dealing with stakeholders who want things done their way: focus on alignment with the organization’s strategy.

Mike Cohn reviews the Start Doing / Stop Doing / Continue Doing approach to a Sprint retrospective.

Vyom Bharadwaj provides a short description of a product backlog and what items it might contain.

Shane Vaz breaks down the steps to replace a traditional project delivery method with Scrum.

Applied Leadership

Lisa McLeod retrieves key points on how some leaders exude “presence” from Suzanne Bates’ forthcoming book, “All the Leader You Can Be.”

Elizabeth Harrin reviews “The Confidence Effect,” by Grace Killelea. If you read Elizabeth’s book, “Overcoming Imposter Syndrome,” this is an excellent follow-up.

Art Petty enumerates the steps to take in leading your peers.

Lindsey Patterson explores good practice in setting expectations early, so employees can be confident that they are delivering what you want.

John Goodpasture wants us to get past the stupid question, in order to provide information that the questioner actually needs.

Pot Pouri

Nick Heath updates us on how Amazon is using ever larger numbers of robots in pursuit of their goal to reduce order fulfillment time to 30 minutes.

Brendan Toner reviews My Life Organized, a hierarchical task manager with an interesting “do this next” algorithm and a Getting Things Done interface.

Jonathan Buckley describes some of the biases found in Big Data analytics.

Erika Anderson describes a process to decide what skill to work on next.

Ted Devine advises contingent workers: the contract is key to your success!

Johanna Rothman shares a few questions that help assess the culture of a company – valuable in our job search.

Enjoy!

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