Articles

I started writing articles in 1996. These articles explore the issues of:

  • Project and program management: how to support teams so they can deliver successful products.
  • Manage people: How to be more effective so the people have autonomy, mastery, and purpose while the business achieves its desired results.
  • How to hire people
  • Recognize risk, to manage it
  • How to be a great consultant to deliver value to your clients and create the life you want.

The last time I counted, there were more than 300 articles. That's craziness.

There's a lot here, so you might want to check out the tag cloud on the sidebar. Or use the search function. Or contact me and I can find the article you think I wrote.

2023 Publications

On projectmanagement.com:

  • No More Watermelon Status Reports: How to Use Stories to Explain Project State (February 2022)

2022 Publications

On projectmanagement.com:

  • What’s Taking So Long? Little’s Law Holds the Answer (June 2022)
  • Use Cycle Time and Value Stream Maps to Visualize Delays and Predict Better (May 2022)
  • 3 Guiding Principles From Women in Project Management: Past, Present and Future (March 2022)

2021 Publications

I wrote a series of 5 articles with Michael Mahlberg. The Agile Alliance published these articles on their blog in Feb-March, 2021. We offered insights about how we can bring lean principles back into how people practice their agility today:

On projectmanagement.com:

  • Agility for Non-Product Teams and Workgroups (November 2021)
  • Agile? Waterfall? Something Else? How to Choose Your Project Lifecycle (October 2021)
  • Build Resilience in Any Kind of Project (February 2021)
  • 3 Ways to Create Resilience in Your Agile Project (January 2021)

2020 Publications

Another year where I wrote books and blog posts over articles. See my projectmanagement.com articles:

  • Want More Innovation? Manage For Change (Nov 2020)
  • Can You Make a Hybrid Approach Work for Your Project? (Part 2), Sept 2020
  • Can You Make a Hybrid Approach Work for Your Project? (Part 1), Sept 2020
  • Why Your Remote Team Needs a Separate Chat Backchannel, Sept 2020
  • 3 Interpersonal Communication Tools You Need for Every Remote Team, Aug 2020
  • How to Plan for Uncertainty in Uncertain Times, July 2020
  • 3 Approaches to Transform Talent Management to Environment Management, June 2020
  • Choose Again: Re-Evaluate Your Project Portfolio for Adaptability, May 2020
  • 3 Agile Estimation Alternatives, Feb 2020

2019 Publications

2019 Gurock Articles:

  • Understand Your Geographically Distributed Agile Team, 2019/06/11
  • Discover Long Feedback Loops, 2019/05/14
  • Testing Is Not a Shared Service: How Testers Can Help Product Development, 2019/03/26
  • Test Manager’s Role in an Agile Organization, 2019/02/21
  • Reframe Test Failure to Learn Early, 2019/01/17

2018 Publications (I wrote too much in books to maintain this page. Argh.)

Eliminate Fake Certainty and Solve the Real Problem, agileconnection.com, October 2018

I wrote many articles for the Gurock blog:

  • Agile Tester as Servant Leader, 2018/11/29
  • Leading Your Agile Team Regardless of Your Role, 2018/10/19
  • Experimenting Your Way to Better Test Automation, 2018/09/21
  • Release Criteria at All Levels: Turtles All the Way Down, 2018/08/16
  • Lead Your Agile Culture Change, 2018/06/28
  • Leading the Agile Culture Change, 2018/06/15
  • MVE and MVP: Defining the Difference, 2018/05/02
  • Using the Best of Agile and Lean for Your Project, 2018/03/16
  • Continual Planning: The Driver of Continuous Testing, Integration, & Delivery, 2018/02/28
  • Feedback & Feedforward for Continuous Improvement, 2018/01/24

2017 Publications

Unearthing Your Project's Delays, PragPub, October 2017

2016 Publications

2015 Publications

2014 Publications

  • Management Myth 35: Friendly Competition is Constructive, December 2014
  • Management Myth 34: You're Empowered Because I Say You Are, October 2014
  • Management Myth 33: We Need a Quick Fix or a Silver Bullet, Sept 2014
  • Beware of Serial Status Meetings, Agileconnection, Sept 2014.
  • Applying Agile to Emergent Projects, projectmanagement.com, Sept 2014
  • Management Myth 32: I Can Treat People as Interchangeable Resources, Stickyminds, Aug 2014
  • Management Myth 31: I Don’t Have to Make the Difficult Choices, Stickyminds, July 2014
  • Design Your Agile Project (Part 2), NFJS Magazine, August 2014
  • Design Your Agile Project (Part 1), NFJS Magazine, July 2014
  • Management Myth 30: I am More Valuable Than Other People, Stickyminds.com, June 2014
  • Need to Learn More About the Work You are Doing? Spike It!, Agileconnection,com, May 2014
  • Management Myth 29: I Can Concentrate on the Run, Stickyminds.com, May 2014
  • Leading Your Organization's Transition to Agile, projectmanagement.com, May 2014
  • Management Myth 28: I Can Standardize How Other People Work, Stickyminds.com, April 2014
  • Management Myth 27: We Can Take Hiring Shortcuts, Stickyminds.com, March 2014
  • Debugging Your Geographically Distributed Agile Team, projectmanagement.com, February 2014
  • Management Myth 26: It’s Fine to Micromanage, Stickyminds.com, February 2014

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