New project management articles published on the web during the week of September 12 – 18. And this week’s video: applying insights and techniques derived from recent studies on multi-tasking and ego depletion to improve your productivity. Less than four minutes, safe for work. Tip of the hat to Harry Hall, who shared this.

Must read!

Henny Portman advocates for positioning Agile methods as changes to “business as usual,” rather than as changes to the way projects are run.

Robin Goldsmith describes the process of determining ROI by discovering the requirements that drive business value and quantifying the intangibles.

Dmitriy Nizhebetskiy lists six practical risk identification techniques that won’t go over the heads of your project team.

Established Methods

Elizabeth Harrin reviews “The Conscious Project Leader,” by Colin Ellis.

Lawrence Putnam lays out the case for an enterprise estimation center of excellence.

Glen Alleman pulls together his best responses to common #NoEstimates ideas and assertions into a single post.

Jiwat Ram analyzes Project Management as a Service, and finds reasons to hesitate.

David Cotgreave shares some tips on how to get your IT project approved by the executive suite.

Agile Methods

Stefan Wolpers posts his weekly compilation of new Agile content, from “dark Scrum” to mental models and three jobs for product managers.

Ryan Ripley interviews Jeremy Willets on applying the introspective mindset to fine-tune the effectiveness of your coaching. Just 14 minutes, safe for work.

Debashish Ghosh examines the theory and practice of quality assurance in Agile methods.

Jake Rocheleau gives us a guided tour of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Get out in front on this, if you’re only compliant with the typical W3C standards.

Applied Leadership

Andrew Neitlich provides some pointers on managing the organizational politics that affect your project.

Coert Visser describes a strategy for positive communication, based on the reciprocity principle.

Liane Davey recommends an approach for preventing a meeting attendee from excessive participation in the conversation. You know: talking too much.

Art Petty decries the value-deficient leadership recently displayed at some organizations: win at all costs, ethics be damned. Don’t work for these people, ever.

Belle B. Cooper explains the mentoring relationship, why both parties benefit, and how to find your own mentee.

Seth Godin asserts that professionals will push back because they have standards.

Technology and Techniques

Alex Handy reports from the GitHub Universe conference that project management features are being added to the most widely-used source code management platform.

Jay Donovan reports on Kinetise, a platform that creates native apps for iOS and Android using a drag and drop interface. Enterprise “citizen developers” are creating their own apps!

Monica Yoo debunks three common myths about security in cloud applications and environments.

Bas de Baat gets us up to date on the potential application of AI pattern recognition techniques to some of the more routine project management tasks.

Working and the Workplace

Brendan Toner reviews MarginNote Pro, a fantastic iOS app for annotating PDF and eBook documents.

Karina Keith curates a list of tips to stay productive when working from home.

Suzanne Lucas lists nine gadgets everyone who works from home needs to invest in.

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