New project management articles published on the web during the week of February 15 – 21. And this week’s video: an all-star jam on Franklin’s Tower.

Must read!

Cameron Conaway tells about the culture at FlexJobs, a job site for telecommuting and other non-traditional positions, where the staff lives exactly that style of work.

Seth Godin explains how we should talk about our projects. Not in the marketing sense, but in the strategic sense. Fundamentally, all projects are business activities.

Michael O’Brochta uses examples from the Flint, Michigan water scandal and the Titanic disaster to argue that ethical behavior contributes to project success.

Established Methods

Cesar Abeid interviews former DeLorean Motor Cars executive Barrie Wills on the saga of the most innovative care of the 1980’s. Just over an hour, safe for work.

Elizabeth Harrin interviews Lorraine Chapman as part of her series, Inspiring Women in Project Management.

Glen Alleman points out the difference between user stories and requirements.

Aaron Smith relates the top ten business analysis trends, as identified by TwentyEighty Strategy Execution.

Harry Hall explains how to identify project risks using a structured holistic approach.

Agile Methods

Johana Rothman delivered a three-part series on getting past command and control management on the way to Agile. Here’s part two and part three.

Saad Ali Jan gets philosophical on automating software testing (and what not to automate).

Donna Reed lists some of the common methods Agile teams use to measure and communicate progress.

Applied Leadership

Ryan Ogilvie explores the Greek discipline of rhetoric, in an effort to improve our ability to persuade and influence.

The Clever PM explains the finer points of leading through influence, when managing those above you in the org chart.

Martin Webster lists the things strong leaders do in a crisis.

Jesse Lynn Stoner explains the greatness of Abraham Lincoln, an ordinary man who saved a nation.

Steven Levy extracts lessons learned from the failure of on-line magazines at Yahoo.

Art Petty notes three lessons video game designers can teach us about implementing organizational change.

Liane Davey tells how to lead your team through the turmoil usually associated with organizational change.

Sarah Hood suggest that we deal with the “elephant in the room” head on, rather than let it remain an unspoken fear.

Kerry Wills observes that the problem with superheroes is that they need villains to fight. Not productive in a collaborative environment!

Pot Pouri

Bernard Marr reports on the Big Data technologies being leveraged to fight the Zika virus.

Cal Newport, author of “Deep Work,” proposes an interesting way to limit the type and number of interruptions you agree to accept: the attention charter.

Coert Visser calls our attention to recent research which found, “Winning a competition engenders subsequent unrelated unethical behavior.”

Maria Popova extracts a lesson on developing resilience found in Seneca’s “Letters from a Stoic.”

Enjoy!

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