New project management articles published on the web during the week of July 6 – 12. We give you a high-level view so you can read what interests you. Our theme this week is taking a skeptical look at extraordinary claims. Recommended:

Must read!

Kailash Awati takes a critical look at knowledge work and the flimsy basis for claims of expertise.

John Goodpasture summarizes a few revolutionary ideas for the 21 st century technocrat organization, despite his misgivings.

century technocrat organization, despite his misgivings. Bruce Benson compares the fault in his GPS that said he ran a four-minute mile with the claims made by methodology advocates.

PM Best Practices

Harry Hall reviews some strategies for dealing with the process by which sub-par resources get assigned to our projects.

Jim Anderson gives us some pointers on how to take control of a negotiation.

Elizabeth Harrin interviews Mark Woeppel on his new book, Visual Project Management.

Glen Alleman outlines the three major strategic themes underlying most IT projects.

Allen Ruddock suggests that the PMO can have an important role in maintaining stakeholder engagement.

Dan Patterson advocates for risk analysis as part of the process of green lighting a new project.

Bruce Harpham bullet points the characteristics of a good summer project. The kind you choose for yourself, of course!

Margaret Meloni composes an open letter to project team members.

Toby Elwin drives home the need to understand the action objective before communicating.

Ryan Ogilvie lists a few specious claims to avoid when pitching change. My favorite: “No testing is really needed.” Yup, that’s why we have production …

Braden Kelly starts a series on using Six Sigma / DMAIC to drive innovation.

Agile Methods

Johanna Rothman has gathered some insights for program-level product owners, and shares three of them with us.

Henrico Dolfing shares his lessons learned from using Scrum on an actuarial modeling project.

Nada Aldahleh has some suggestions for improving Scrum.

Podcasts and Videos

Cesar Abeid interviews author, podcaster, and strategic business coach Gene Hammett on leaving the corporate world and learning from failure. Just 55 minutes, safe for work.

Cornelius Fichtner interviews project management coach and mentor Jeff Furman on his approach. Just 30 minutes, safe for work.

William McKnight presents his TED talk on information as the next natural resource. Well, maybe not natural, but definitely a resource. Just 15 minutes, safe for work.

Outside the Lines

Peter Saddington shares a two minute video, ”Did I Get the Job?” Funny, not safe for work, but there’s nothing good on TV, so why not?

Seth Godin relates an interesting technique for getting an audience involved.

Vivek Prakash describes what he claims is, “The only technique that resolves conflicts.”

Enjoy!

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