New project management articles published on the web during the week of December 19 – 25. And this week’s video: making a gingerbread house, starring Abby. Less than four minutes, safe for work.

Must read!

Tim Urban shares the best advice he’s ever been given, from no less an authority than Chris Anderson, the man who heads the TED Talks organization.

Joseph Grenny shares an anecdote that illustrates the need to control our emotions in tense moments.

Michael Lopp captures the spirit of the holiday season with a story about the hole where his Dad buried their Christmas presents.

Established Methods

Moira Alexander tutors us on how to write a more effective project charter.

Henny Portman listed links to all 44 of the book reviews he’s published this year. A mix of English and Dutch, so it’s not 44 books. But still, there’s something here for you!

Mike Clayton didn’t get the chance to read as much as he hoped in 2016, so this list of 15 books contains his aspirations for 2017.

Joe Wynne starts a series on managing organizational change in HR projects.

Harry Hall points out the ways we can create schedule risks, often by trying to resolve existing schedule issues.

Agile Methods

Johanna Rothman talks up the merits of rolling wave planning for backlogs and product roadmaps.

Cornelius Fichtner interviews Andy Burns on scaling Agile and adaptive project management processes at scale. Just 32 minutes, safe for work.

Andrew Makar considers how to align PMO processes with Agile methods. If you see the boulevard as a road block, maybe you’re going the wrong way.

Dave Prior and Richard Cheng shared their first podcast, intended to provide tips for new Scrum Masters. Just 34 minutes, safe for work.

Eric An explains the maintainability rules for cascading style sheets. Yes, that was an example of rhetorical recursion.

The Clever PM provides a summary and link to each of his ten most popular posts of 2016. Good stuff here – at least take a look, even if you’re not a product manager.

Applied Leadership

Jesse Lyn Stoner walks us through an ethics check, in the event we’re faced with a situation that seems neither black nor white.

Lisette Sutherland interviews David Mansilla, CEO of 100% remote software development firm ISU Corp, on trust and transparency. Just 32 minutes, safe for work.

Doug Thorpe introduces us to Jia Jiang, who decided to desensitize himself to rejection by actively seeking it out for 100 days, straight. Naturally, there is a TED talk: 16 minutes, safe for work.

Technology and Techniques

Bertrand Duperrin suggests that the Uber model – positioning oneself as a broker between the provider and its clients – might be short-lived.

Keith Foote provides an overview of the differences between relational and non-relational databases and includes a link to a video presentation with more details.

Brendan Toner provides a detailed review and examples of what we project managers can do with iMindMap.

Working and the Workplace

Stephanie Lee shares the lessons she learned from working remotely, all around the world.

Kat Boogaard coaches us on making our elevator pitch memorable.

Oliver Burkeman recounts the history of our embrace of efficiency and time management and points out the reason it’s ruining our lives.

Victor Tan Chen reports on the growing spiritual crisis of living in what can be an extreme meritocracy.

Aimee Groth gets us up to speed on why holocracy is failing at Zappos and was abandoned at Medium: we’re human, and we’re better at feeling than thinking.

Enjoy!

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