New project management articles published on the web during the week of March 7 – 13. And this week’s video: David Letterman’s classic photo-identification quiz, “Trump or Monkey?” Four minutes, safe for work.

Must read!

Mike Griffiths expounds on whether certification should indicate a ceiling or a floor of professional learning, and illustrates his point with historical examples.

Seth Godin explains the difference between confidence and arrogance, when making the case for change.

Lynda Bourne continues her examination of Practical Ethics. “The ethical standards of an organization are set by the actionsof its leaders.”

Established Methods

Samad Aidane interviews Suzie Blaszkiewicz, market analyst at GetApp, on their new report: 2016’s Top Project Management Apps.

Elizabeth Harrin interviews CEO, project manager, and entrepreneur Monica Borrell.

Douglas Brown on making process changes stick: “Best practices are a destination, not a starting point.”

Susanne Madsen explains the importance of positive relationships with project stakeholders, and how to develop them.

Brad Egeland offers five ideas for making meetings more productive that probably run counter to other advice you’ve seen.

Harry Hall explains the difference between qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, and offers suggestions on how to improve your approach.

Agile Methods

Neil Killick looks for a patch of common ground between #Estimates and #NoEstimates.

Glen Alleman responds to Neil on that common ground between #Estimates and #NoEstimates.

Johanna Rothman posted a four-part series on how Agile approaches influence the way we test, from our expectations to our practices to metrics. Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

Mike Cohn recommends some alternatives approaches when developing reports that are too complex to deliver in one sprint.

Fernando Paloma Garcia explains how to stabilize quality and prepare to evolve the features of legacy applications by establishing a base of automated tests.

Shashank Sinha describes an example of how Agile methods were applied to the evolution of an enterprise legacy system.

Applied Leadership

Art Petty notes that good managers focus on what the people are doing, not just the tasks.

John Goodpasture considers un-delegation, based on the Principle of Subsidiarity.

Nancy Settle-Murphy addresses three questions from her Wall Street Journal interview, on dealing with issues between the remote worker and a problematic boss.

Dmitriy Nizhebetskiy explains how to develop a project management dream team.

Lisa Earle McLeod extols the virtues of Essentialism, “the disciplined pursuit of Less.”

Pot Pouri

Bruce Harpham offers some guidance for making remote work productive.

Brendan Toner shares an eclectic list of techniques for improving productivity.

Yanna Vogiazou gets us up to date on gestural interaction – think Kinect games – and our multi-modal future.

Bertrand Duperrin thinks that the speed of Saas deployment may already exceed the speed at which organizations can change to adopt them.

Dalton Hooper provides some post-interview feedback: why I didn’t hire you, even though you were the most qualified.

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