Unleashing human potential – antecedents, potentials and threats

In modern times it is often demanded that the human potential should be let off the leash. The Manifesto for Human Leadership for example postulates “Unleashing human potential over employing human resources” and states the following: “Whoever sees organizations as machines and treats humans like cogwheels in them must not complain that people only work […]

New research study on Cultural Factors, Personality Traits and Agile Project Management

Master students from HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences are currently researching the impact of national cultural factors versus personality traits on the individual’s success using agile project management techniques. Their data will be gathered through a quantitative survey of project management professionals, and the larger the sample size of respondents, the more accurate will […]

Findings of the 13th State of Agile Report

All sectors of our society experience an increasing pressure to change. As modern information, communication and collaboration tools are gaining ground, the pace of work has accelerated tremendously and the shift from traditional ways of performing work to agile approaches is a challenge for all organisations. Not only the software industry, but also the “traditional” […]

Release 3 of the Handbook for Agile Practices published

Two years ago the Special Interest Group “Management 4.0” of the German Project Management Association (GPM) published the first release of “Management 4.0 – Handbook for Agile Practices”. Recently, the third release has been made available too… It covers three parts. Part I highlights the foundations of Agile, the second part is about “Become Agile […]

Projects and project management in Georgia

Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bordered to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital and largest city is Tbilisi. During the […]

Projects without People: What projects AI humanoids can deliver on their own?

Thinking machines are no longer just the fancy characters shown in sci-fi Hollywood movies. The fast-paced technological developments aimed at creating artificial intelligence (AI) devices that could mimic the way humans think and behave are driving birth of a man-machine combo world. In the man-machine combo world, AI humanoids (AI machines resembling human-beings) will share […]

Clickworkers – people working remotely on projects

The availability of powerful information and communication technologies is changing work arrangements. Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B) platforms enable collaboration in order to realize products, projects & services. People may work from home, from a co-working space in another town or from the beach. They do not necessarily need to be together with all other […]

Entering the era of “projacting”

Yes, it´s a new word and may sound “strange” at the very first moment. However, I want to offer an alternative to “project management”, as “management” is outdated, old-fashioned and pretty distant to the object of the project. But let´s start the discussion… The term “project” isn´t new. The Oxford Online Dictionary offers several definitions, […]

Cognitive readiness for complex projects and programmes

Cognition is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.” It may encompass intellectual functions and processes such as attention, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and “computation”, problem solving and decision making, comprehension […]

It takes a good strategy and strong implementation to build a Smart City

The Austrian capital Vienna again tops the Smart City Index, Roland Berger’s analysis of 153 cities around the world. Second in the ranking is another European city, London. On average, however, it’s mainly Asian metropolises that demonstrate the most compelling Smart City strategies. Remarkably, 90 percent of the analysed cities still do not have an […]