New project management articles published on the web during the week of January 16 – 22. And this week’s video: Harry Hall shares a few ideas to improve our project cost management approach. Less than four minutes, safe for work.

Must read!

Kailash Awati examines the potential for data science to do considerable damage when we ignore social and ethical considerations. Weapons of math destruction, indeed!

Art Petty describes the “energy sinks” (the opposite of “source”) that burn us out and lists some actions we can take to turn them off.

Jesse Lynn Stoner suggests that humiliation might be a gift – a wake-up call – and quotes Gandhi’s comment on the proverb: the truth hurts.

Established Methods

Atif Qureshi curated responses to a request for predictions: what will be the top project management trends in 2017? Of course, he has his own predictions.

Leigh Espy shared a simple but complete scope statement template for download. Just name and Email required.

Mike Clayton posts a basket full of ideas that have nothing to do with project management that will nevertheless help us be more effective project managers.

Samuel Bacharach describes the characteristics of four type of influencers – Top Dogs, Gatekeepers, Gurus, and Players – who can make or break your project.

Mike Griffiths introduces a loose series of blog posts on the #NoProjects principle of continuous software development.

Kristyn Medeiros waxes poetic on the stoplight colors we use for status reporting.

Agile Methods

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of Agile content, from Guerrilla Innovation to Kanban metrics to saying no to customers.

Craig Brown makes the case for still using Planning Poker, even after you’ve been using Agile methods for a while.

Derek Huether created an infographic that enumerates qualities of good and bad ScrumMasters.

Madhavi Ledalla sketches the “Art of the Scrum Master.”

The Clever PM articulates the challenges of trying to reliably predict the future behavior of your customers.

Donna Reed tells about Kaizen, or “change for the better,” and creating a high-maturity Agile culture based on continuous improvement.

Yona Gidalevitz describes the application of ethnographic research to UX design for users from a specific culture. There’s more to it than just translating words to their language.

Applied Leadership

Elizabeth Harrin reviews Gary Lloyd’s new book, “Business Leadership for IT projects.”

Wayne Turmel points out the obvious – of course a project manager is a people manager.

Kerry Wills reminds us to set the example: “Act what you expect.”

Technology and Techniques

Craig Smith interviews quality consultant Anne-Marie Charrett on context-driven testing, exploratory testing, and women in technology. Just 40 minutes, safe for work.

Cade Metz reports on the growing number of high-end physicists finding work in the software teams of Silicon Valley.

Jake Rhuede of Red Stag Fulfillment posted an interesting infographic on the ways artificial intelligence is infiltrating E-commerce.

Working and the Workplace

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Adam Yearsley point out the types of work where people with high EQ are less effective.

Suzanne Lucas considers the case of the employee who refuses to answer (or even read) Emails in the evening.

Jennifer Aldrich explains why hiring for culture fit is not antithetical to hiring for diversity.

Jack Simpson notes that if you don’t finish what you’re working on, you’re not productive – you’re just busy.

Enjoy!

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