Recently, there has been a lot of interest in the potential of large pre-trained language models, such as OpenAI's GPT, to transform the field of project management.
It’s easy for project professionals to get caught up in schedules or budgets and forget about the actual benefits delivery.
One of the popular management acronyms of recent years is VUCA.
The classic 1975 British comedy film concerning the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group is a cult classic, one of my favourite movies to quote from and funny if you get the sense of humour.
It’s no good waiting around for things to go back to normal – it’s time to review how you hire and embed staff, and review performance.
Everybody has a different view and expectation of a project manager.
Anyone who has worked in project management or procurement will know that there is considerable overlap between the two areas.
Michelle Littlemore (Northumbria University) and Karen Thompson (Responsible Project Management) know a thing or two about projects - that we’re still expected to deliver “profitable” results even when delivering in a sustainable way.
There is a perception in some quarters that resource management is either what you do in SAP or is what line managers do in Excel to keep track of what their folks are up to – that it is either ‘local’ or ‘macro’ – but the two perspectives are too difficult to join together.
The demand for project professionals continues to rise and millions of new project-management jobs are set to be created globally between now and 2020.