New project management articles published on the web during the week of July 7 – 13. We gather all of this stuff so you don’t have to search for it! Recommended:

Risk Management

Craig Brown observes the effect that the company’s financial performance has on how we manage change.

Adam Stone reports on efforts to secure the energy grid from malicious mischief. Or even acts of war.

Gina Abudi suggests we consider the challenges of cultural diversity on geographically distributed teams in terms of risks we need to manage.

PM Best Practices

Glen Alleman notes that the Minimum Viable Product mindset, popular in certain product development circles, doesn’t consider enterprise business needs.

Nick Heath reports on some of the imbedded system prototypes and single-function servers built using the $35 Raspberry Pi Linux computer.

Andy Jordan describes his vision of an enterprise PMO, with a number of support structures to provide guidance throughout the organization.

Nick Pisano replies to my recent post on defining project success, centered on disruptive change and the potential impact of change management.

Lynda Bourne explains stakeholder theory, as conceived by Ed Freeman. The ethics component matters deeply!

Suzanne Lucas recently saw an article on bad parenting behaviors by a British nanny; Suzanne interprets the same behaviors as bad management.

Bart Gerardi enumerates the costs of scope and requirements changes on the project, and on the team.

Cheri Baker has been experimenting again. This time: co-working! Also known as, “Working in an open space with other people around.” Well, maybe not …

Kerry Wills objects to long Emails, for many reasons. For one thing, they’re … long.

Agile Methods

Mike Cohn suggests we select backlog items that will serve an additional purpose – like risk management, or the chance for the team to learn.

Henny Portman shares the white paper (in English) synopsis of his recent book (in Dutch) on managing Agile projects, using Atern.

Donna Reed considers a range of metrics for measuring the success of an Agile project manager.

Vandana Roy considers the merits of Scrum and Kanban, and which one would prevail in a fight. No, not really …

Professional Development

Elizabeth Harrin extracts some key points from “Business Networking,” by Will Kintish, to explain why you must network.

Penelope Trunk explains why keeping you options open leads to failure; only full commitment succeeds!

Lyndsey Gilpin trots out some statistics on the state of women in technology. If you’re a people manager, you have a chance to help shape a better future.

Podcasts and Videos

Cesar Abeid interviews Jonathan Creaghan on why we just make stuff up, more or less. Just 40 minutes, safe for work. I’m not making this up …

Samad Aidane share a four part video version of his “ERP Projects: The Complete Survival Manual.” Each part is about 11 minutes, and all are safe for work.

Craig Smith interviews Alan Bustamante on conflict resolution and starting Xcelerate Partners, as well as all things Agile. Just 36 minutes, safe for work.

Enjoy!

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