Project success relies upon more than just building the right tools and handing them over. In the late nineties the ADKAR change management model was developed by Prosci as a process for managing people through organisational change. Read more at Better Projects Blog.

Both a business analyst and a project manager operate as consultants to a client organisation, and project teams operate as service delivery organisations. The RATER service quality framework is a good tool for project teams and team members to manage the quality of service to our clients. Read more about RATER at the Better Projects Blog

As business evolves into the 21st Century, and as your career as a project worker develops the complexity of the environment escalates and so does the scale of projects you work on and the potential costs of failure. So risk management becomes more and more crucial to managing better projects. Over the next half dozen projects I am going to post a Risk management 101 series of articles running through the key areas of project risk management:

Raising a risk

Risk management systems

Describing a risk

Assess a risk

Manage a risk

Monitor a risk Read more at Better Projects Blog

Marissa Mayer, VP of search products at Google, tells Business Week how she runs meetings

Im Podcast Interview von Christian Höcht beleuchtet Dr. Gernot Starke die Aufgaben und das Zusammenspiel von Projektleiter, Software-Architekt und Analytiker. Ich finde das Interview hörenswert, weil Gernot Starke einige wichtige Aspekte der Projektarbeit in klaren Worten beschreibt. Außerdem der trockene Humor von Gernot Starke und die unkonventionellen Fragen von Christian Höcht.

The topic of applying agile methodologies to your business processes seems to have become quite popular these days. The benefits of becoming agile are pretty attractive for software companies and yet many of them still do not clearly understand how they could make a smooth transition and whether this “agile” thing really works ...

Useful list of possible approaches to make up iterations in agile product development.

A short article on stakeholders for PMs and BAs. Covers what is a stakeholder, the cyclical approach to stakeholder management and the influence engagement model.

"The definition of a stakeholder is controversial. For example, project team members are generally not considered stakeholders, but in virtual teams, across matrix companies, they may be stakeholders, as their roles extend to beyond the project. They are thus committed more to their local business unit than the project’s success and have an impact on whether the project goes ahead and whether it is considered successful..."

Good article showing how to visualize and manage stakeholders. Demonstrates plotting of stakeholders in a concentric-ring 'target' where the most important stakeholders are in the center.

The visualization could use a little refinement, but is a good idea.

Great article about the expected, yet unaccounted-for things that impact project schedules - vacations, sick time, productivity levels, etc.  An occasional must-read reminder of the things to think about. 

Chris Hawkins definitely has a handle on the real world