Ask a project professional whether projects feel harder than they used to, and you’ll get a knowing look. PMI’s 2026 Pulse of the Profession report puts a number on it: 81% of project professionals say projects have become more complex…
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PMI’s 2025 Pulse of the Profession report found that only 18% of project professionals demonstrate high business acumen. If that number is even roughly right for your team, it explains a lot: projects that deliver what was specified but not…
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A project can finish on time, on budget, and on scope, and still leave the business no better off. Most of us have seen it: the launch party happens, the status turns green, and six months later nobody uses the…
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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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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 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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Many project management office (PMO) consultants, program managers, and project managers will tell you, “Yes, many projects and programs have unrealistic and inflexible deadlines.” Many of them have been assigned to so many projects at once that, without time management,…
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Every few weeks, someone in a steering meeting declares that waterfall is dead and agile is the answer. Then someone else asks how agile will work for the data center migration. Both people have a point, and neither has the…
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