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Delegating to AI “Team Members”
My wife named her Chat GPT app. It’s called Sabastian. It was a brilliant move. I’m a slow AI adopter. We know about so many problems with it. It tells you what you want to hear, even if it’s bad advice. It confidently lies to you (See Note 1). It invents false “facts” to support Read.
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Politics for Non-Political Project Mangers
I was talking with a customer recently and he asked me what part of managing projects I find most challenging. I thought for a moment, and I told him, “It’s managing the conflicting needs of people affected by the project.” Conflicting Interests I am an engineer at heart, so when a problem arises, my first Read.
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Fred’s First Flip – A Risk Management Case Study
I’ve been writing a lot on risk lately and how we can manage it in our projects. It’s been a bit theoretical up to this point, so here’s a fictional and oversimplified case study. I’ve intentionally chosen a job I’ve never done before, as the point of the post is not to tell you how Read.
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Risk Management for Beginners – Part 2: Measuring & Responding to Risk
In Part 1 of this series we introduced the topic of risk, and why it deserves more attention in how we manage projects, and tools we can use to counter our own blind spots in identifying risks. In this post we will discuss what to do with this list of identified risks. Which of them Read.
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Example of Artificial Intelligence in Project Management
In my post about identifying risk in projects, I said that I used Microsoft Copilot AI to generate a list of risk prompt questions. I wanted to share that full exchange to give project managers a taste of some basic ways to use AI to make their project plans stronger and easier to create. There Read.
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Risk Management for Beginners – Part 1: Identifying & Tracking Risk
In my first major project, my PMO told me I needed to do a Risk Register, so I did one to satisfy them. But when we started facing issues on that project, it was so clear that my risk responses were totally inadequate. While there were lots of out-of-my-control reasons for those issues, I learned Read.
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Optimizing Teams across Multiple Projects
I spoke with an engineering project manager recently where he shared a problem his organization faces. He said, “We are good at managing our teams to accomplish our projects. But we are not good at coordinating the resource needs of all the projects we have going at once, as well as the potential ones we Read.
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Never Bored with the Basics
“Why do you think I’m the best player in the world? Because I never get bored with the basics.” – Kobe Bryant – Legendary basketball player, 2-time Olympic gold medalist Bryant said his now famous line when speaking to a sports reporter who had gotten bored while watching Bryant intensively practice basketball fundamentals. The reporter Read.
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