New project management articles published on the web during the week of September 1 – 7. We give you a high-level view so you can read what interests you. Recommended:

PM Best Practices

John Goodpasture educates us on the art and science of preparing a request for proposal, or RFP. Must reading!

Paul Glen explains why one person can’t be a project manager and a programmer, at the same time.

Michel Dion walks us through the process of taking over a project from a departing project manager.

Glen Alleman recounts the development of multi-criteria decision analysis.

Bruce Benson shares a lesson learned from Little Caeser’s Pizza restaurants: small changes are sometimes enough to get big results.

Elizabeth Harrin summarizes a presentation to the Ireland Chapter of PMI, delivered by Mike Hughes, Office Business Group Lead for Microsoft Ireland.

Gina Abudi reveals her secrets of evaluating the culture of a client organization.

Nick Pisano tells why measuring technical achievement matters and how fits in with other progress metrics.

Kenneth Darter lists the attributes of an effective project sponsor.

Agile Methods

Mike Cohn defends the notion that story points are about time and level of effort, rather than just complexity.

Bart Gerardi looks at Agile anti-patterns, starting with translating story points to effort hours.

David Baker explores how the business analyst fits into the Scrum framework.

David Anderson explains how risk affects work in progress, using a real life example: the number of shirts he should keep in his closet.

Tobias Mayer gives a tongue-in-cheek explanation of how to scale Agile, the same way you would scale a fish. Excellent!

Following the Trends

Nick Heath reports that IT outsourcing firms in India are automating many of their technical jobs. Salaries are skyrocketing due to competition for engineers!

Mike Frandsen reflects on how the move to continuous development at Workday has benefitted their customers and increased the pace of innovation.

Jelani Harper gives us the background on data governance programs.

Suzanne Lucas gives us Boomers and Gen-X types a few cultural insights (OK, warnings) on how these recent graduates will change our workplace.

Professional Development

Lindsay Scott uses a cautionary anecdote to lead up to the question: What was the last conscious thing you did to benefit your PM career?

Andrea Brockmeier shares her thoughts on preparing for the PMI-ACP exam.

Michael Lopp describes your elusive but hyper-effective colleague, The Wolf.

Susanne Madsen offers three critical questions that you can use to solicit feedback.

Podcasts and Videos

Cesar Abeid interviews Patrick Coffin and Dustin Kahia on their upcoming film, “Call of the Void,” and movie project management. Just 57 minutes, safe for work.

Cornelius Fichtner interviews author Mark Phillips on his new book, “Reinventing Communication.” Just 30 minutes, safe for work.

Margaret Meloni defines strategic reserve time, in the context of teams for whom the project is not their sole responsibility.

Enjoy!

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