New project management articles published on the web during the week of September 18 – 24. And this week’s video: two Scottish men try to communicate with a voice-activated elevator. My Taiwan-born wife laughed so hard I thought she’d require CPR. Just under 4 minutes, more-or-less safe for work.

Must read!

Derek Beres explains how reading changes your brain, increasing intelligence and empathy. Which is why you read these weekly round-ups, right? 5 minutes to read, four short videos embedded.

Rich Maltzman and Dave Shirley report on the growth of Sustainable and Responsible Investment, using the Seychelles as an example. Deals like this always create new projects. 4 minutes to read.

John Goodpasture opines on the relationship between precision and accuracy and two schools of practice—one of objectivity and one of subjectivity. 2 minutes to read.

Established Methods

Harry Hall tells how to conduct a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis and apply the findings to your risk management activities. 2 minutes to read.

Harry Hall tells how to conduct a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis and apply the findings to your risk management activities. 2 minutes to read. PMI released two new in-depth reports—one on achieving agility (32 pages) and one on the drivers of agility (16 pages). Note that “Agile” and agility are not the same thing.

Michelle Symonds explains why the “triple constraint” ignores all other constraints and points out some of the others we will encounter. 4 minutes to read, one embedded video.

Laura Paton debunks five myths about PMI’s business analysis certification. Laura had key roles in developing both the PMI standard for business analysis and the BABOK Guide. 7 minutes to read.

Cheryl Texiera gets down to the gritty details of creating consistent documentation for your project. 3 minutes to read.

Chris Matts begins a series describing the three levels of metric maturity. 2 minutes to read.

Agile Methods

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of Agile content, from the roles of change (agitate, innovate, orchestrate) to systems thinking, to the case for teams to self-select. 11 outbound links, 3 minutes to scan.

Mike Cohn explores the two ways in which a team can add detail to a user story: splitting and adding acceptance criteria. 6 minutes to read.

John Cutler presents some background on the story points debate and then suggests some alternative metrics. 4 minutes to read.

Tamás Török presents a scientific approach to prioritizing software development requirements. 4 minutes to read.

David Vicentin explains how Six Sigma projects can apply Agile techniques and values. 2 minutes to read.

Arthur Moore presents the Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) notion of the perfect definition of done. 3 minutes to read.

Applied Leadership

Harry McCracken reports on the success of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in changing the culture at Microsoft, resulting in a dazzling improvement in their prospects. 20 minutes to read.

Harry McCracken reports on the success of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in changing the culture at Microsoft, resulting in a dazzling improvement in their prospects. 20 minutes to read. Robert Kaiser, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, and Derek Lusk guide us in learning to play office politics ethically and effectively. 5 minutes to read.

Art Petty reminds us that while results certainly matter, leaders need to get them sustainably to be effective. 4 minutes to read.

Christopher Chabris provides brief reviews of four recent books on different aspects of decision-making, behavior, and influence, authored by researchers in the fields. 4 minutes to read.

Technology, Techniques, and Human Behavior

Tom Warren reports that the forces of evil managed to hide botnet malware in the CCleaner app that has been downloaded more than 2 billion times. 2 minutes to read.

Dan Patterson and Emily Wilson discuss the details of the Equifax breach, including the revelation that the company directed victims to a phishing website for support. Incredible … 7 minutes, safe for work.

Febin John James reveals that artificial intelligence can be used to guess passwords because humans are predictable. But, you knew that. 3 minutes to read.

Working and the Workplace

Geoff Crane identifies four distinct skills, based on the trait model of emotional intelligence, that will allow us to thrive in the “gig economy.” 4 minutes to read.

Leigh Espy coaches us on preparing for project management behavioral interview questions and even shares a list of 40 samples. 10 minutes to read.

Kailash Awati notes that “no one actually experiences time as it is depicted in a timeline.” The level of engagement makes time seem to go faster or slower. 6 minutes to read, although it might seem like 2 or 3.

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