New project management articles published on the web during the week of April 28 – May 4. We read all of this stuff so you don’t have to! Recommended:

Portfolio Management

Patti Gilchrist makes the case for strategic portfolio management.

Martin Webster continues his series on leadership models with a look at the art of strategy.

Andy Jordan puts portfolio-level risk management into perspective.

Kenneth Darter tells why portfolio-level status reporting is different from project status reporting.

Dave Wakeman notes the importance of setting realistic goals for our projects.

PM Best Practices

Glen Alleman enumerates the elements of project success – project efficiency, impact on customer, business success, and preparing for the future.

Bruce Benson looks at the failure of the state-level health insurance exchanges, where it is becoming obvious that the big-name technology experts blew it.

John Podesta led a working group to provide recommendations on Big Data to President Obama. Big Government is forming an opinion on all of this potential for good and mischief!

Elizabeth Harrin presents her project management news round-up for April.

Chuck Morton provides the right answer to the age-old question, “What is the most important skill to develop to be a successful project manager?”

Gina Abudi presents a case study on managing a last minute push for a plainly valuable addition to scope.

Cynthia Owens looks at how people respond to change.

Ron Rosenhead celebrates writing 400 blog posts with a list of links to what he feels are his top ten. My favorite is #7!

Ralf Finchett applies the Jedi Code to project management.

Agile Methods

Johanna Rothman has been gaining experience as a customer/ product owner, with a new project: a house remodel, with an agile builder.

Madhavi Ledalla has put together quite a toolkit for keeping retrospectives lively. Nice work!

Mike Cohn tells us when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em – in planning poker, that is.

John Goodpasture enumerates the varieties of scope creep in Agile.

Mathew Squair admits that the Agilistas have a point about the futility of detailed plans when building “novel” software under conditions of uncertainty. No foolin’?

Podcast Interviews

Dave Prior interviews Jabe Bloom, who advocates Real Options Theory. Just 24 minutes, safe for work.

Cesar Abeid interviews Patrick Snow, on publishing your book. Just over an hour, safe for work.

Craig Smith interviews Kenny Rubin, author of “Essential Scrum.” Just 15 minutes, safe for work.

Pot Pouri

Cheri Baker has invented the seven-day weekend! Well, OK: she’s made a few changes to five days she wasn’t enjoying …

Michael Lopp shares his extensive preparation routine for giving presentations to large groups of strangers.

Venkatesh Krishnamurthy shares an example of a leader creating a negative culture.

Francis Hooke looks at business strategy in three parts: pinpointing goals, building a plan to reach them, and performing on the plan.

Enjoy!

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