Top Project Management Postings: March 2009

Because it’s the end of the month, again! March was a special month for Project Shrink as I launched the Project Shrink Videocast on iTunes and released the first edition of my new free unbook.

During all this I was tracking 129 blogs (I cleaned up the list). In March 2009 I found the following postings highly remarkable and interesting…

One Model for a New World Economy @ OpenTheFuture

If you want to read a posting reflecting my current line of thinking (about projects and organizations) I recommend this great piece:

“Decentralized diversity (what we sometimes call the “polyculture” model) means setting the rules so that no one institution or approach to solving a problem/meeting a need ever becomes overwhelmingly dominant. This comes at a cost to efficiency, but efficiency only works when there are no bumps in the road. Redundancy works out better in times of chaos and uncertainty — backups and alternatives and slack in the system able to counter momentary failures.”

Image by kyz.

Stumbling Through Mediocrity @ James Shore

“I wasn’t really being asked “Does Agile scale?” … What I was really being asked was, “Does Agile work in large, dysfunctional organizations? Can I keep doing all of the ineffective things I’m required to do and still say I’m Agile?”

Project Management and Crucial Conversations @ Raven’s Brain
10 tips to overcome Imposter Syndrome @ PM4Girls
Your Software Project Has No Goal @ Noop.nl

You may also want to check out the best of January and February 2009.

And BTW… Thank you so much for reading my blog. Really. Thank you.