New project management articles published on the web during the week of June 17 – 23. And this week’s video: digital project managers Ben Aston and Kelly Suter discuss the Hertz-Accenture lawsuit. $32USD million for a website design that never went live? That requires a lot of process failures! 7 minutes, safe for work (unless you believe cock-up is a bad word).

This week’s images from our day trip to Death Valley.

Business Acumen and Strategy

Karl Henrik Smith analyzes Anthos, Google’s new Kubernetes-based platform designed to manage applications across multiple clouds, such as AWS and Azure. 8 minutes to read.

Greg Satell examines how major changes in technology, resource utilization, migration, and demographics drove change in the 20 th century and projects what these trends will mean in this century. 6 minutes to read.

century and projects what these trends will mean in this century. 6 minutes to read. Eshe Nelson interviews Richard Baldwin, author of The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, robotics, and the future of work. 8 minutes to read.

Managing Projects

Mike Griffiths has been named co-lead for the next update cycle of the PMBOK, to be called the 7 th Expect “a radical departure from all previous editions.” Just a minute to read.

Mike Griffiths has been named co-lead for the next update cycle of the PMBOK, to be called the 7 Expect “a radical departure from all previous editions.” Just a minute to read. Glen Alleman defines technical margin and contingency and explains how they are used in systems under development. 2 minutes to read.

Dale Howard tells us how to view all predecessors and successors for any task in MS Project. Very useful in highly detailed plans! 3 minutes to read.

The nice folks at Clarizen tell about RACI charts—what they are, how they are used, and why we need them. 3 minutes to read.

Tom Cagely presents the positive case for a Big Bang implementation of a major change, like moving to a new ERP. 3 minutes to read.

Jim Conroy describes five specific actions that the PMO can initiate in order to improve project benefits realization. 4 minutes to read.

Managing Software Development

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of Agile content, from decision making in flat organizations to customer centricity to killing any project. 7 outbound links, 3 minutes to read.

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of Agile content, from decision making in flat organizations to customer centricity to killing any project. 7 outbound links, 3 minutes to read. James Thomas led a 15-minute discussion on the value of testing is … and captured the group learnings in a mind map. 3 minutes to read, including the map.

Dave West makes a good case for putting product customer personas on the team wall. 4 minutes to read.

Steven Hansen talks us through conducting an estimate for a project with an embedded Linux component. This is illustrative of good practice in technical analysis, from alternatives to risks. 5 minutes to read.

Johanna Rothman reminds us to clean our backlogs, create a parking lot, and otherwise reduce our cognitive load. 3 minutes to read.

Marija Cvjetkovic shares 15 of her cartoons, mocking “false Scrum implementations.” 3 minutes to read; no estimate for time required to laugh nervously and change the subject.

Applied Leadership

Kumar Srikant leads us on a deep examination of professional and business ethics violations and how we choose to cheat. 6 minutes to read.

Nick Walker and Bill Yates interview Dr. Ruth Middleton-House on decision-making under threatening conditions. Podcast, 35 minutes, safe for work.

Vikash Kumar shares his principles for leading a geographically distributed team. 5 minutes to read.

Research and Insights

Andrej Kovačević updates us on Dark Web activities that appear to be trending, with implications for the business world. 4 minutes to read.

Andrej Kovačević updates us on Dark Web activities that appear to be trending, with implications for the business world. 4 minutes to read. Edward Hawkins gives us some insight into how internal and external security testing is accomplished. 5 minutes to read.

Dan Schawbel reports on research that indicates a generation preference (or aversion) for open offices. Having both kinds of space might provide an edge in the talent war. 3 minutes to read.

John Detrixhe reports that new financial technology algorithms discriminate against minorities 40% less often than human lenders. 3 minutes to read.

Working and the Workplace

Tim O’Brien reminds us that we should not let our role become our identity, and let professional reverses hurt us on a personal level. 5 minutes to read.

John Leo Weber coaches us on office etiquette—the little rules that help us fit into the workplace. Yes, this is even more important for leaders. 6 minutes to read.

Dan Matthews suggests simple in loco parentis solutions for three common office conflicts. 2 minutes to read.

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