New project management articles published on the web during the week of July 20 – 26. We give you a high-level view so you can read what interests you. Our theme this week is Agile software development. Recommended:

Must read!

Johanna Rothman shares a few tips for product owners faced with ranking features in a backlog. This needs to be a checklist!

Neil Killick shares a twelve-point decision tree (which only looks like a questionnaire) that will help you determine whether your team is actually developing software using Agile methods. And no, it’s not a twelve-step program – just a coincidence.

Aaron Smith interviews Thomas Wise, co-author of the new book, “Agile Readiness: Four Spheres of Lean and Agile Transformation.”

PM Best Practices

Elizabeth Harrin: “The biggest challenge facing project management today is that project-related work and jobs are growing too quickly for our approaches to professionalism to keep up.”

Adam Shostak points us toward a good, long read at CIO on real lessons learned from the dubious rollout of Healthcare.gov.

John Goodpasture quotes John LeCarre (for the second time in a week) on the need for facts to have a credible source.

Kailash Awati continues his series introducing us to R, the open source statistical analysis package.

Kerry Wills walks us through his analytical process for Issues.

Bruce Benson leverages a story in Bloomberg Businessweek to introduce the radical idea of skepticism, as a tool for issue prevention.

Kenneth Darter observes that some issues only crop up after the project is (nearly) completed. That doesn’t make them non-issues!

Matthew Squair reports on a demonstration of how to take control of a car via the internet. “My new car has Wi-fi!” Far out, Dude …

Lynda Bourne covers the elements of stakeholder engagement, including a bit of history.

Paul Ritchie addresses a tough recruiting question: how do I interview for soft skills?

Nick Pisano looks at the economics of data through the lenses of public sector economic and Moore’s Law.

Rex Homlin explains that successful projects are successful on three levels.

Ryan Ogilvie covers the basics of software asset management.

Agile Methods

Mike Griffiths posts an infographic and some statistics and analysis on a topic we sometimes avoid: the down side of open space office plans.

Mike Cohn provides an alternative to user stories, for when your users aren’t really part of the story.

Glen Alleman explains why deadlines still matter, even in an Agile world.

Bob Tarne explains Lean, from a mountain climber’s perspective.

Alhad Akole share best Scrum practices for getting to zero defects.

Podcasts and Videos

Cesar Abeid interviews the all-around wonderful Dorie Clark, on how to be better and how to be noticed for it. Just 55 minutes, safe for work.

Harry Hall shares a short video, where Shane Hastie explains the discipline of business analysis. Three minutes, safe for work.

Ruairi O’Donnellan shares a micro-video on issue management using Sharepoint. Less than two minutes, safe for work.

Enjoy!

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