New project management articles published on the web during the week of August 29 – September 4. And this week’s video: Jennifer Witt explains the risk register and how it is used. Just 4 minutes, safe for work.

Must read!

Elizabeth Harrin interviews Craig Kilford, owner of the new project management training review website CourseConductor. “Think of Course Conductor as ‘TripAdvisor’for project management training industry.”

Derek Huether adds his thoughts to an old post by Zbyněk Dráb on why discipline is far more productive than motivation. Definitely read the original; it’s a classic!

Steven Levy shares an anecdote from the early days of Windows 3.0 in order to demonstrate the difference in perception between failure and progress. And then closes with an old video by Concrete Blonde.

Established Methods

Karthik Subburaman provides a detailed guide to business process metrics, from what to measure to best practices in implementation.

Mike Clayton tutors us on how to create a work breakdown structure from a mind map.

Dmitriy Nizhebetskiy walks us through three examples of realistic project risks and how to manage them.

Harry Hall describes key risk indicators and explains how to use them to avoid risk events.

William Davis demonstrates an elegant way to use Excel’s binomial functions to estimate a risk reserve from your risk register.

John Goodpasture strategizes for the Risk Management Office that has to deal with (or report to) an autocrat.

Jeff Collins lists the steps to establishing “risk intelligence” in your organization. Think of it as a special case of business intelligence.

Agile Methods

Stefan Wolpers posted his roundup of Agile articles and blog posts.

Sujatha Tokala describes the activities and value of a one-week Sprint Zero.

The Clever PM extols the virtues of clarity: clarity of purpose and clarity of communication.

Tom McFarlin contemplates the pressures of meeting software development deadlines: the big pressure variable is quality.

Doug Thorpe reminds us that perfectionism is unattainable, and the relentless pursuit of perfection leads to burnout, not achievement.

Applied Leadership

Coert Visser encapsulates what researchers have found about when performance, behavioral, and learning goals are most effective.

Art Petty reflects on the value of experience in a business world where everything is changing. Maybe it’s not about doing the old things in the old way.

Kathleen O’Connor summarizes key points from “The Courage Solution,” by Mindy Mackenzie, based on a conversation with the author.

Bertrand Duperrin notes that employees don’t care about leveraging the shared knowledge expressed in some collaboration tool as a corporate asset; they just want to get work done.

Adriana Girdler recommends we create a personal vision statement, and offers her own as an example.

Working and the Workplace

Gina Abudi explains four ways to advance your professional development.

Jennifer Zaino reviews statistics that show a startling decline in the number of women entering engineering and computer science.

Soma Bhattacharya interviews Lindsay Scott on how she manages her daily routine, from schedule to devices to apps.

Ryan Ogilvie examines a potential career path for those working on the IT Service Desk, who don’t have technical aspirations.

Lisette Sutherland interviews Bjoern Zinnsmeister on staffing the startup – how to hire remote rock stars, track WIP, that sort of thing. Just 39 minutes, safe for work.

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