New project management articles published on the web during the week of April 24 – 30. And this week’s video: Cassini phoned home to mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California after successfully making the first of 22 orbits in the narrow gap between Saturn and its innermost rings. Not bad for a craft launched in October 1997!

Must read!

Mike Griffiths shares ideas on how to get PDU’s in the “Strategic and Business Management” area of the talent triangle. You need at least 8 to recertify as a PMP.

Ben Evans projects electric and autonomous vehicles, virtual reality, and machine learning out about five to ten years, in terms of consumer behavior change.

Ahmed Alkhateeb claims that Big Data and robotics are advanced enough to automate scientific research using Sir Francis Bacon’s model of discovery. Ahmed is a molecular cancer biologist at Harvard Medical School, so this is serious.

Established Methods

Mike Clayton tutors us on project governance, from its origin with the ancient Greeks to direction-setting, decision-making, and oversight.

Harry Hall catalogs the most common reasons and most beneficial ways to resolve project conflicts.

Glenn Alleman explains how to talk about estimates and their attributes of uncertainty: precision, accuracy, and bias.

Alex Pucasu identifies the common environmental elements that you should account for when making estimates.

Andy Jordan gets us up to speed on the portfolio-level view of projects with common goals.

John Goodpasture expounds on technical debt as an enabler, rather than an evil to be avoided.

Agile Methods

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of Agile content, from the futility of scaling Agile to why Agile doesn’t work in Asia, to morality, metrics, and more.

Mike Cohn addresses the question: does the Scrum Master role ever go away?

The Clever PM recommends you begin your Agile transformation with a healthy dose of practice, and forget about all that theory.

Ryan Ripley and Amatai Schleier interview Jessie Shternshus on how improv skills can help make your Agile team awesome. Just 43 minutes, safe for work.

Craig Smith interviews Paul Rayner on domain driven design, working with legacy code, and user story mapping. Just 49 minutes, safe for work.

Humberto Cordioli identifies the tradeoffs when determining whether to adopt a business or architectural orientation.

Saravana Bharathi explains how continuous integration and continuous delivery differ, but fit together.

Applied Leadership

Gina Abudi tells of a client who collaborated with her remote team to develop ground rules for how they would interact.

Esther Derby explains the three kinds of empathy, and how they improve our ability to adapt our “change” messaging.

Luis Seabra Coelho explains the Start-Stop-Continue feedback model, which seems to work well across most cultures.

The Power of YOU

Jesse Lyn Stoner encapsulates the barriers to successfully managing our time, how to overcome them, and how to stop procrastinating.

Brendan Toner reviews “The Power of Full Engagement,” by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz. They maintain that energy, not time, is our most precious resource.

Coert Visser examines the exercise choice: walking or running. Note that if your nose runs and your feet smell, you may be built upside down.

Project Management as a Career

Jon Vordermark takes a critical look at the career path for the typical corporate project manager and finds it lacking.

Leigh Espy suggests that the way to get into project management is from your current job.

Barry Hodge decided to create a more interesting intro to the basics of project management, for those who are thinking of getting into it.

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