New project management articles published on the web during the week of December 23 – 29. We read all of this stuff so you don’t have to! The reader survey is still open – it’s a measly six questions, you can respond in under a minute! Recommended:

Get Ready for 2014

Jelani Harper notes a variety of interesting trends in Cloud Computing for 2014.

Eric Bloom identifies five mega-trends that are changing the profession of project management.

Jeff Bertolucci makes six predictions for Big Data in 2014.

Leadership

Adrian Fittolani looks at what Dan Pink says workers want – mastery, autonomy, and purpose – and responds with what they should be prepared to give in return.

Conrado Morlan applies lessons learned from running marathons to project management.

Luis Seabra Coelho concludes his two-part article on “self-herding,” a cognitive bias that drives us to reiterate previous decisions in new circumstances.

PM Best Practices

Terry Bunio expands on a post by Karen Lopez, making the business case for creating a data model.

Glen Alleman deconstructs two graphs on estimated vs. actual project duration, as poor applications of statistical analysis.

Kinzy Janssen looks into how TempWorks Director of Project Management, Taylor Mack, guides over a dozen implementations a month.

John Goodpasture: “If you can’t draw it, you can’t build it!”

Tom McFarlin shares some insights about vision and mission gained from managing teams of volunteers engaged in open source software development.

Venkatesh Krishnamurthy explores three critical factors in performance testing.

Steven Levy looks at the implications “dark data” – electronically stored information that you don’t know about – might have for discovery when under litigation.

Derek Huether uses a holiday example to illustrate how he uses his personal Kanban to limit his non-work in progress.

Penelope Trunk believes the secret to keeping New Year’s resolutions and other commitments lies in establishing KPI’s – key performance indicators.

Podcasts and Videos

Cesar Abeid interviews Harry Che on setting goals and achieving them. Just 39 minutes, safe for work.

Jennifer Whitt explains five things we need to do as project managers to keep learning. Just 6 minutes, safe for work.

Dave Prior posts links to his favorite videos from the Øredev conference, held in November in Sweden.

Retrospective 2013

The folks at ProjectSmart looked back at 2013 output and listed their ten most popular articles – all good enough to read again!

Russell Whitworth looks back at the recurring themes in his consulting work from 2013.

Ryan Boudreaux put together a slide show of the best web designs of 2013. It makes me want to raise my game!

Enjoy!

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