New project management articles published on the web during the week of October 27 – November 2. We give you a high-level view so you can read what interests you. Recommended:

PM Best Practices

The second edition of Women Testers Magazine is now available. Not just for women or testers – this is some truly excellent content. Highly recommended!

John Goodpasture considers two views of “architecture.”

A Business Cloud News survey found that IT isn’t really driving SaaS adoption, and cloud-based applications are still providing data security challenges.

Andy Jordan concludes his long series on organizational risk management.

Johanna Rothman lays out an approach for tactical management.

Bruce Benson makes the case for getting into the weeds – researching the history, understanding past performance, and scheduling based on demonstrated capabilities.

Rebecca Mayville uses the butterfly as a metaphor for driving positive change.

Michelle Stronach recounts a sad story of how she took over a project in progress, from a well-liked, competent project manager who passed away.

Agile Methods

Kailash Awati describes how to apply the principles of emergent design to enterprise IT.

Glen Alleman shares his article, “Agile Program Management,” published in Cutter Journal. A long but excellent read.

Mike Cohn continues his series on sprint planning with the commitment-driven approach.

David Anderson notes that, as soon as organizations get used to time-boxing, they shrink the size of the boxes. Kanban (naturally) avoids this trap!

Don Kim believes that the Scrum team will only succeed if the Product Owner truly understands what is needed and can communicate it effectively.

Ravi Nihesh Srivastava proposes using Scrum to produce a high-quality technical proposal.

Leadership

Bob Tarne summarizes keys points from a recent presentation by Tom Peters.

Elizabeth Harrin interviews Oana Krogh-Nielsen, Head of the PMO for the National Electrification Program for the Danish rail system, Banedanmark.

Bruce Harpham interviews Terry Schmidt, whose resume begins with his internship at NASA during the Apollo Moon landing program, on strategic project management.

Podcasts and Videos

Cornelius Fichtner interviews Joseph Flahiff at the PMI Global Congress, on his new book, “Being Agile in a Waterfall World.” Just 30 minutes, safe for work.

Dave Prior rounds up with fellow Agilistocrats Richard Cheng and Dhaval Panchal to discuss Agile misconceptions they see in training classes. Just 15 minutes, safe for work.

Margaret Meloni shares an article by Roxi Hewertson, “Lead Like it Matters.” Just 3 minutes, safe for work.

Craig, Tony, and Renee interview Em Campbell-Pretty on the Scaled Agile Framework. Just 35 minutes, SAFe for work. Oh, stop rolling your eyes …

Pot Pouri

Linky van der Merwe tells us about the African Storybook Project, which aims to translate children’s stories into African languages and publish them on the internet.

Pat Weaver celebrates the 30 th anniversary of the PMP examination with a brief history of PMI, the PMBOK, and the PMP credential.

anniversary of the PMP examination with a brief history of PMI, the PMBOK, and the PMP credential. Ralf Finchett shows the Project De-Motivational posters he’s been working on, and asks if we have any ideas. Wait until I take my medication, Ralf …

Kerry Wills finds the humor in Reply to All when “All” is the entire company.

Enjoy!

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