Here’s a selection of project management articles I’ve been reading over the last week. Hope you find them useful!

• Project Manager By Choice or Default? – PM Hut
  

  The reasons for assigning a project manager role to an individual from within an organization are sound ones – knowledge of the company, its products and people should by no means be underestimated. But whether that person has the necessary skills to lead a project is not always taken into account and there can be just as many problems with promoting internally as in hiring an unknown, but experienced, person from a different organization who has specifically chosen this profession.

• Making Decisions Like Sherlock Holmes – Herding Cats
  

  Just as in The Sign of Four, Holmes makes use of these three powers to solve crimes. A PM can make use the same three powers to make decisions on the project.