New project management articles published on the web during the week of February 1 – 7. And this week’s video is Survivorman Les Stroud and his buddy Bob with a deep woods harmonica duet.

Must read!

Suzanne Lucas summarizes recent research into what make us appear to be stupid. Three behaviors dominated – and you can change your behavior!

John Goodpasture gets us back to the numerical basics of counting, measuring, and positioning. Elegant + simple = profound.

Michael Wood provides a comprehensive introduction to ethics, as it applies to project management. With lots of links to excellent topical content!

Established Methods

Mark Langley, CEO of the Project Management Institute, advises CFO’s on how to optimize project portfolio management in their organization.

Glen Alleman notes that the first step in estimating work to be done is simple research: has this been done before?

Harry Hall describes the Nominal Group Technique for risk identification.

Steven Levy reminds us that optimizing our designs for use is more important than optimizing them to prevent abuse.

Bob Tarne presents another idea from Change by Design: experimenting.

Nick Pisoni attacks some lingering false assumptions related to use of hard data to assess project performance.

Agile Methods

Johanna Rothman contrasts the Burndown and Burnup charts, to make the point that what matter is what action the data drives you to take.

Richard DeFrancesco adds flow and Cycle Time charts from Lean to Burn Up charts, to help his team better visualize work completed and in progress.

Bernd Schiffer wants us to view retrospectives as an investment, that pays off over time.

Derek Huether promotes his three favorite Agile apps for the iPhone.

Nilesh Shah enumerates the Seven Sins of Scrum.

Applied Leadership

Cameron Conaway notes that silos have a function; eliminating them altogether might be counter-productive.

Susanne Madsen shares some advice for forming and managing geographically distributed teams.

Liane Davey offers some ideas for moving from argument and confrontation to collaboration.

Art Petty recommends we widen our field of view, especially when developing strategy.

The Clever PM opines that the true test of our values comes when face adversity.

Deb Schaffer recaps the steps to putting together a project team.

Pot Pouri

Danielle Kohler begins an interview series with IT recruiter extraordinaire, Gail Rolls on how to success in a job interview.

Elizabeth Harrin advises new folks – especially young women – what behaviors will help them be taken seriously at work.

Shikha Menwal observes the inverse relationship between “busy” and “productive.”

Mathieu Noiville points us toward five excellent project management blogs.

Bruce Harpham recommends 16(!) podcasts for career development, project management, and more.

Enjoy!

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