﻿ New project management articles published on the web during the week of February 18 – 24. And this week’s video: Box founder Chieh Huang shares the cure for micromanagement madness and tells how to foster innovation and happiness at work. 12 minutes, safe for work.

Business Acumen and Strategy

Ben Laker and Thomas Roulet use Brexit as a case study in explaining how companies can adapt during times of political uncertainty. 7 minutes to read.

Joel Carboni exhorts us to consider the sustainability aspects of our projects. After all, project work accounts for about 30% of global GDP—that’s a big 4 minutes to read.

Emma Charlton analyzes an interesting chart of global smartphone shipments and notes that as sales begin to drop off, it may take 5G and foldable devices to save the industry. 3 minutes to read.

Managing Projects

Praveen Malik tutors us on compressing the project schedule, using fast-tracking and crashing—two different approaches with different risks. 4 minutes to read.

Praveen Malik tutors us on compressing the project schedule, using fast-tracking and crashing—two different approaches with different risks. 4 minutes to read. John Goodpasture returns to an earlier discussion of the adequacy of assuming a Normal distribution (until the data indicates otherwise). 3 minutes to read.

Jigs Gaton uses some concepts from physics to help us re-adjust how we think about time, as project managers. 8 minutes to read, some humor may be encountered.

Glen Alleman recommends a book that applies root cause analysis to determine how a US military helicopter was accidentally shot down. Just a minute to read.

Mike Clayton briefly but clearly explains Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, usually referred to as FMEA. Video, 6 minutes, safe for work.

Fiona Macintyre shows us how to use mind mapping techniques (and MindGenius) to decompose a project into a work breakdown structure. 5 minutes to read.

Kiron Bondale shares his project management mixtape. Leave a comment with your additions to the playlist. 2 minutes to read.

Managing Software Development

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of Agile content, from scaling to storytelling to leaving the industrial paradigm in the dustbin of history. 7 outbound links, 3 minutes to read.

Sean Regan gives us the executive summary of Atlassian’s survey of 500 professional software development leaders. 4 minutes to read, plus the entire report is downloadable

Dan Ashby uses his son’s push toy to illustrate the difference between code coverage and test coverage. Testing metrics matter! 4 minutes to read.

Matt Hamlin explains the business case for data protection as a service (DPaaS). 4 minutes to read.

Antonio van der Weel coaches on how to become a better product manager. 6 minutes to read.

Applied Leadership

Cornelius Fichtner interviews Kevin Wozniak on effective meeting leadership. Still relevant after all these years. Podcast, 24 minutes, safe for work.

Cornelius Fichtner interviews Kevin Wozniak on effective meeting leadership. Still relevant after all these years. Podcast, 24 minutes, safe for work. Nadine Rochester notes ten business environment challenges facing project managers today that will require confident leadership. 5 minutes to read.

The folks at Clarizen remind us of four cases where small teams turned a vision into success. 5 minutes to read.

Research and Insights

Dan Swinhoe reports on recent research into the cost of the resources needed to commit cybercrime. Like the cost to bribe a politician, it is embarrassingly low. 6 minutes to read.

Umet Seepter lists 18 applications for facial recognition technology. You can think of at least one more, right? 4 minutes to read.

Cameron Coward notes that robotics researchers have now developed a soft robotic finger that knows where it’s pointing—positional sensing, as opposed to positioning. 2 minutes to read.

Shelly Fan recaps recent studies that found you can learn while you sleep, but that’s no reason to doze off in the classroom. 5 minutes to read.

Working and the Workplace

Leigh Espy tutors us on the three most useful graphical formats we can use to express data in our presentations. 5 minutes to read.

Adriana Girdler briefs us on voice mail etiquette and proper practice. Video, 5 minutes, safe for work.

Serkan Karabacak has a few simple suggestions that can help us remove distractions and focus on deep work. 3 minutes to read.

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