Six months after ChatGPT arrived, nearly every project manager we know has tried it, and most have an opinion. Some call it a revolution. Others call it a toy that makes things up. After a few months of careful experiments,…
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We started this series in 2013 with an article called “Waterfall isn’t the enemy.” Nearly a decade later, we’re glad to report that the argument has mostly run out of steam. Conference talks that once pitted agile against waterfall now…
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A one-size-fits-all method has a certain appeal. Everyone learns the same templates, the same gates, the same vocabulary. The cost shows up later, when a three-week internal change carries the same paperwork as a multi-year infrastructure program. The alternative is…
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Walk into almost any large organization and you’ll find a mix. The contract with a supplier follows a fixed plan. The regulatory filing has a date set by someone outside the company. Meanwhile, the software team down the hall works…
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For years, the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide taught a generation of practitioners to think in processes: five process groups, ten knowledge areas, and the inputs, tools, and outputs that connected them. This year, the Project Management Institute…
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When offices closed this spring, teams grabbed whatever worked. Zoom for meetings, Microsoft Teams for chat, Slack for another group’s chat, email for everything else, and a different board for each project. It was the right call at the time.…
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Several months into remote work, many leaders miss something they never noticed they had: a feel for how projects were going. They used to see who was in early, who looked worried, and who was huddled around a whiteboard. Without…
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A few weeks ago, most of your team worked in the same building. Now they’re at kitchen tables, spare bedrooms, and the occasional ironing board, and you’re still expected to deliver. If you lead projects, you didn’t get a chance…
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The decade is almost over, and looking back, a lot has changed in how organizations manage work. Agile moved from small software teams to the enterprise. “Digital transformation” became a board-level phrase. Cloud tools replaced spreadsheets, and the PMO started…
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When an organization moves from funding projects to funding persistent product teams, project managers start asking what’s next for them. It’s a fair question. If projects stop being the unit of work, what happens to the people who managed them?…
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