New project management articles published on the web during the week of August 27 – September 2. And this week’s video: Gitanjali Rao’s TEDx Chennai talk on her innovative low-cost solution to detecting lead in drinking water. The 12-year-old Colorado resident won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge in 2017. 11 minutes, safe for work.

Business Acumen and Strategy

Edd Gent reports that powered exoskeletons, like the power loader from Aliens, are finally becoming technically and commercially viable. 3 minutes to read. Related story on a backpack providing a pair of remotely controlled robot arms, 1 minute to read.

Anil Gupta and Ziyang Fan see downsides to the rush of governments to restrict the movement of data across borders. 5 minutes to read.

Greg Satell recommends that, before your business moves to the cloud, you need to get clear on four things. 5 minutes to read.

Managing Projects

Elizabeth Harrin interviews Natalie Steck, CEO of Viewpath, as part of her Women in Project Management series. 4 minutes to read.

Leigh Espy tells us when to turn down a project assignment, and how to do it gracefully. 5 minutes to read.

John Goodpasture sets some data normalization ground rules for managing “little data” in Excel. 2 minutes to read.

Elise Stevens interviews consultant and ProjectManagement.com blogger Andy Jordan on the nature of and need for portfolio management. Podcast, 14 minutes, safe for work.

Henny Portman proposes an extension of the P3M3 portfolio / program / project management model to incorporate agile frameworks. 6 minutes to read.

Managing Software Development

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of Agile content, from Martin Fowler’s Agile Australia keynote to the road to mediocrity to the Peter Principle. 7 outbound links, 2 minutes to read.

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of Agile content, from Martin Fowler’s Agile Australia keynote to the road to mediocrity to the Peter Principle. 7 outbound links, 2 minutes to read. Gojko Adzic ruminates on why “sprint” should be “marathon” and segues into how to prioritize technical debt against business features. 12 minutes to read and worth every nanosecond.

Roland Flemm points out five “supporting elements” that are necessary to support the Scrum framework but are not roles, artifacts, or events. 3 minutes to read.

Tom Cagley explores the nature of reciprocity and reciprocal agreements and then applies them to the Scrum team. 5 minutes to read both parts.

Maaret Pyhäjärvi goes into the deepest details in describing the strong style approach to pair programming. Not just for XP nerds! 14 minutes to read.

Matthew Heusser shows how he teaches acceptance test-driven development (ATTD) at his company. Interesting in several ways. 4 minutes to read.

Applied Leadership

Alexander Maasik curates his weekly list of leadership content, from productivity over efficiency to focusing on the outcome to firing the genius who doesn’t play well with others. 4 minutes to read.

Travis Birch lists ten organizational capabilities that should be developed to create a culture of leadership. 4 minutes to read.

Dominic Price finds insights in a frank admission by Bill Gates: his biggest business weakness is hiring and management issues and building up the team. 3 minutes to read.

Hamlet Batista reveals several techniques, such as Moneyball and Nerd Sniping, to make recruitment of technical folks more effective. 7 minutes to read.

Research and Insights

Paramita Ghosh reports on developing trends in advanced analytics, including applications designed for the Internet of Things (IoT). 7 minutes to read.

Paramita Ghosh reports on developing trends in advanced analytics, including applications designed for the Internet of Things (IoT). 7 minutes to read. Mike Smith highlights the trends in software testing that he’s seen develop over the last year. 6 minutes to read.

Veronica Hanks lists some of the most common root causes of internal security threats and breaches. 5 minutes to read.

Jon Oltsik reveals the results of a survey of information security professionals, listing the most important attributes of an integrated cybersecurity platform. 3 minutes to read.

Working and the Workplace

Christiaan Verwijs explains how to use the What, So What, Now What structure to help a group create a shared understanding of their experience. 5 minutes to read.

Meg Adams recommends learning lists to capture all the terms, acronyms, frameworks, and technologies we encounter that we don’t know anything about. 3 minutes to read.

Sophie McAuley shares suggestions on building your own community as a remote worker. You didn’t really miss that water cooler, did you? 5 minutes to read.

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