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Why AI is project management’s next paradigm

Either embrace artificial intelligence as a new paradigm for project management, or risk being left behind by those who do, writes David Porter.

December 9, 2019

On probability, randomness and risk

Patrick Weaver gives a primer on understanding probability to better inform your decisions on risk. This is the first of three articles based on Leonard Mlodinow’s book, The Drunkard’s Walk, on randomness.

October 7, 2015

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Are numbers real?

Numbers in the form we know and use today appeared in the 13th century when Italian mathematician Fibonacci, published the Liber Abaci. But, asks Pat Weaver, given our reliance on mathematics for virtually everything, how ‘real’ is a system that cannot define the ratio between the diameter and circumference of a circle but can generate fascinating sequences?

October 29, 2013

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Review: The Change Book by Krogerus & Tschäppeler

The Change Book contains 52 different models of change designed to help us understand our ever-shifting world. Instead, Adeline Teoh finds a case of too much of little depth.

February 15, 2013

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Review: Program Management by Michel Thiry

“Thiry manages to capture the important differences between project and program management, handling them in a clear and logical manner”—Martin Vaughan reviews Michel Thiry’s ‘Program Management’.

August 31, 2012

Finding the gaps in project management

In less than two decades project management has developed from a body of knowledge to aspiring to become a profession. But where is it now? Where is it going? How will it get there? How has project management emerged in organisations and been affected by their evolution? Projects carried out in organisations—such as organisational changes […]

March 16, 2011

Project management through the 1950s

Projects have been undertaken since antiquity, however there is substantial agreement that modern project management as a distinctive discipline had its origins in the 1950s. There were, however, some relatively recent antecedents to these origins, which Peter Morris discusses in The Management of Projects, which I regard as the definitive history of project management up […]

February 10, 2011