Recent Posts by David Werner

It’s becoming clearer every day that artificial intelligence (AI) will have a substantial impact on how we work in the future, and that includes how we manage projects. Witness the headline of a recent press release: “Gartner says 80% of today’s project management tasks will be eliminated by 2030 as artificial intelligence takes over.” According to Daniel Stang, vice president of project management research at Gartner, “AI is going to revolutionize how program and portfolio...

In the past few years, project management has been in the throes of a revolution. Iteration cycles are shorter, project teams are more dispersed, and the pressure to deliver results is ever greater. At the same time, emerging technologies are creating new opportunities for project management organizations (PMOs) to manage this changing work, according to a recent study by ProjectManagement.com. The automation and data visualization provided by state-of-the-art project...

Journalists, news industry leaders, readers, and even technology companies are struggling today with the proliferation of “fake news.” Many news stories posted and shared online contain inaccuracies or misleading information—often by accident, sometimes deliberately. The constant intake of unfiltered and unvetted information makes it increasingly challenging for the average person to know when they are seeing an objective truth they can trust. While this is a relatively new...

A year-and-a-half into a project that was originally scheduled to take 12 months, a contractor friend of mine showed no signs of worry that he’d have to dig up a new gig soon. “This one is going way slower than planned,” he explained. “But it’s not unusual for project deadlines to be extended.”  Indeed it isn’t. According to a P2 Consulting study, 39% of companies report that they fail to deliver projects on time—which is probably one of the biggest reasons 36% of companies...

There’s a lot of change going on in project teams and project management offices (PMOs) right now. Many factors are driving change, from the new ways people work and communicate to the need to be more efficient. The net result is that the world of project management is changing. As more companies struggle to boost their bottom line—in many cases by reducing costs, because their markets or industries aren’t growing significantly—project teams are charged with...