New project management articles published on the web during the week of May 5 – 11. We read all of this stuff so you don’t have to! Recommended:

Portfolio Management

Emanuele Passera continues his series on a financial approach to project portfolio management with an explanation of the efficient frontier.

Nicole Laskowski summarizes the growing debate around Infonomics, and treating data as a business asset.

John Goodpasture notes the difference between ROI and business benefit.

Geoff Crane shares his Excel-based project portfolio capacity planner, complete with video. What’s not to like?

Steve Romero gives his critique of the Bain RAPID decision-making model.

PM Best Practices

Chuck Morton begins series positing an alternative model of project management, based on “Reconstructing Project Management,” by Peter Morris.

Kerry Wills offers some alternative dimensions to “percent complete.”

Gary Nelson recalls secrets learned from a family road trip that might help you get your project to end on schedule.

Martin Webster continues his series on leadership models, with a look at the Situational Leadership model proposed by Hersey and Blanchard.

Shim Marom continues his series on the business case, summarizing a paper by Egon Berghout and Chee-Wee Tan, analyzing municipal e-government projects.

Nick Pisano is very critical of the way the Statement of Objectives has been adopted in certain federal government agencies, replacing the Statement of Work.

Cyndee Miller reports from PMP Global Congress 2014 – EMEA, where keynote speaker James Burke says that tackling complexity is critical to organizational survival.

Gina Abudi shares a story of how she convinced a client to make change a positive experience, by looking forward.

Andrew Filev examines how we can apply lessons learned from neuroscience research to project management.

Agile Methods

Mike Cohn wants us to include developers in story writing, for excellent reasons.

Henny Portman shares an infographic that shows how Prince2 and Agile reinforce each other.

Bart Gerardi notes that requirements are gathered in Agile projects, too, even if we don’t expend as much paper in documenting them.

Bruno Collet proposes an Agile balanced scorecard – accountants, beware!

Podcasts and Videos

Cornelius Fichtner answers five questions on Agile project management, received via Email from Alicia Aurishio. Just 20 minutes, safe for work.

Cesar Abeid interviews Geoff Crane about applying soft skills, building teams, and developing influence. Just 48 minutes, safe for work.

Dave Prior interviews George Schlitz on his approach to keeping positive change moving forward by “breaking the org.” Just 13 minutes, safe for work.

Pot Pouri

Rich Maltzman and Dave Shirley point out the one potential benefit to global warming: more jobs for project managers!

Michel Dion found some interesting research on what you need to get a project management position, based on an analysis of open job requisitions.

Adriana Girdler counts the benefits of using intuition at work.

Elizabeth Harrin reviews “Jumpstart Your Creativity,” by Shawn Doyle and Steven Rowell.

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