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At my company, in the first few years we had a project management department, it was optional for other teams to work with us when they wanted to get things done. As much as this reality wasn’t my favorite, it certainly gave me a lot of practice in persuasion and put me in the habit of thinking abou...

When I hear discussions about AI’s near-term potential in project management, many of the discussed use cases fall into one of these two categories:

1. Writing Help: Project managers produce extensive written communication, not to mention written documents and other artifacts associated with project
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At my company, I’m manager of the project management department. This means I’m the person at my company with the most knowledge of and experience in project management.

It’s a great honor and a privilege to lead a department and a function, and to be the one to provide direction to my whole compan...

You may very well be new to the project management community. But for those of us who’ve been in the profession awhile, we’ve witnessed a hype around agile project methodologies come and, in large part, go.

Previously, predictive methodologies were the norm in project management. When projects are ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about what to do if you’re overwhelmed by too many problems to solve in your project management role, and I showed you why many types of problems don’t actually need to be solved, or not yet.

In this blog, I’d like to show you an additional “answer” to feelings of overwhelm...

Inspired by two different real people I've talked with in the last few weeks who think a project management career might be on their horizon, I asked a fake person (the chatbot Claude.ai) to pretend to be in this situation and to interview me, an 8-year veteran in the field, about what the career is...

In high school I spent some time exploring engineering as a career field. I had a very logical brain and I enjoyed solving puzzles and problems with a fair amount of detail and technicality. I went to a few engineering camps at a local college to get a better understanding of what the role might be ...

Sometimes you run across a little nugget on the internet—a graphic, a video, a quote, whatever—that you find yourself continuing to reference, show people, or send people again and again. I have a few nuggets like these marked as favorites in the photos app on my phone. They illustrate points I find...

About 2 months ago, I got a promotion. I’m now Manager of Project Management, or in industry vernacular, the full-fledged leader of my company’s PMO (project management office).

I am very grateful for this opportunity, and I’m looking forward to having a larger impact on my company’s projects and R...

Did anyone else want to change the world when they grew up?

Maybe this dream was top-of-mind and you talked about it with family and friends. Maybe it was hidden under layers of shame, fear, or self-doubt…but you knew it was there and what it was.

I seem to have fared better than most when it come...