New project management articles published on the web during the week of July 18 – 24. And this week’s video: the maiden flight of Aquila, Facebook’s solar-powered unmanned aircraft, designed to bring internet connectivity to the rest of the world. Just three minutes, safe for work.

Must read!

Harry Hall describes several responses that project managers might make to respond to stakeholder conflict – not all of them good.

Paul Culmsee and his kids prepared a four-minute video they call “A TEDdy Talk,” explaining his new book with Kailash Awati, “The Heretic’s Guide to Management.” Safe for work.

PMI announced that the PMBOK Guide-Sixth Edition, with extended coverage of Agile methods, and a practice guide focused on Agile will be released during the third quarter of 2017.

Established Methods

Elizabeth Harrin makes the argument that contributions to organizational strategic goals are a more useful project metric than alignment with those strategic goals.

Stuart Easton describes the annual project budgeting process as a “beauty parade,” and challenges the PMO to define value.

Priyanka Chakraborty reports that IT project failure rates are essentially unchanged from three years ago. If we can’t be good, let’s at least be predictable?

John Goodpasture expands on a quote from Tony Hoare to explore the inductive nature of software testing.

PMI has made their Pulse of the Profession 2016 report available for download. Title: “Delivering Value: Focus on benefits during project execution.”

Mike Griffiths models the business case for when software development outsourcing makes sense.

Glen Alleman shares his reading list of systems engineering textbooks.

Keith Foote gives us a primer on Big Data and cloud security.

Agile Methods

Johanna Rothman posted a two-part series on how to get to a frictionless release. Here’s part 2.

Dave Prior interviews Liana Dore, Agile Governance lead for eVestment, on the Agile PMO. Just 26 minutes, safe for work.

Mike Cohn addresses the question posed by the #NoProjects folks.

Lance Knight recounts a tale of two Scrum teams: one with a ScrumMaster who understood team dynamics, and one … well, you get the idea.

Natalie Warnert notes that even software teams grieve at the end of their projects.

Applied Leadership

David Robins offers some thoughts on managing remote workers, from processes and tools to characteristics of people who can and cannot work well remotely.

Kathleen O’Connor interviews former HR executive Larry Solomon on his new book, “Translate, Motivate, Activate: A Leader’s Guide to Mobilizing Change.”

Michael Lopp announces coming release of the third edition of “Managing Humans.”

Bas de Baat lists the actions needed to get a team “in the zone.”

Working and the Workplace

Microsoft announced the Microsoft Professional Degree program, “A university caliber curriculum for professionals at any stage in their career.”

Kristin Hillery collected ideas on maintaining work-life balance from a number of folks who work from offices in their home.

Elise Stevens interviews Jane Anderson on using LinkedIn to build your personal brand. Just 24 minutes, safe for work.

Suzanne Lucas briefs us on compliance with the new overtime regulations here in the US.

Steven Pressfield lists ten classic books on productivity, old and new.

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