New project management articles published on the web during the week of March 20 – 26. And this week’s video: Art Petty tells how to start each day by preparing your attitude. Less than three minutes, safe for work.

Must read (or Hear)!

Max Ogles interviews Jane McGonigal, author of Reality is Broken and Superbetter, on the future of habit-forming technology.

Ned Johnson thinks the model of the project manager as project CEO might be the reason so many projects become death marches.

Darragh Broderick performs a failure analysis on three of the worst decisions of the 20th

Established Methods

Pat Weaver makes the point that your project controls—tailored to your delivery strategy—must be both useful and maintainable.

Michelle MacAdam tells how to assess whether your project or program is ready to deliver the benefits it was launched to capture.

Mike Clayton explains the project checklist in just under three minutes. Safe for work, of course.

Dmitriy Nizhebetskiy talks us through the steps in identifying project stakeholders. Just over two minutes, safe for work.

Glen Alleman clarifies the math underlying a commonly quoted quality rubric for software project estimates.

Jenn Livingston describes the key elements of successfully outsourcing software development.

Keith Foote provides a “Cliff’s Notes” history of database management for those who wonder what some of those acronyms mean.

Agile Methods

Stefan Wolpers curates his weekly list of Agile content, including Scrum, Lean, risk-taking and experimentation, and even the Seven Day weekend.

The Clever PM explains why we need to measure what matters—just say no to vanity metrics.

Peter Borsella and Hubert Smits identify the mix of skills needed by cross-functional teams when producing hardware products.

Johanna Rothman concludes her series on becoming an Agile Leader.

Tamás Török extracts some stunning statistics from The State of Software Development 2017, Startup Edition. Not your corporate software development experience.

Mike Cohn introduces yet another installment of his free training videos: this one is on adding just the right amount of detail to user stories.

Ryan Ripley interviews author Geoff Watts on his new book, Product Mastery. Just 47 minutes, safe for work.

Applied Leadership

Harry Hall makes a case for the caring leader.

Alankar Karpe explains why ethics is more important than ever and how to foster an ethical culture in your organization.

Henny Portman reviews The Agility Shift: Create Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams, and Organizations.

John Goodpasture reflects on a hard question: in your domain, who can say “yes” and make it stick?

Gina Abudi continues her case study on getting buy-in for a large project.

Working and the Workplace

Michelle Symonds explains a coming development in the UK: a project management apprentice scheme.

Alison DeNisco reports on a survey of more than 1,400 US tech workers—48% said that the 2016 election made them care more about diversity and inclusion.

Rob England rants about Hot Desks and the dehumanizing policies that remove our team identity and sense of place. We should not be arriving at work early just to get a good seat.

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