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When Words Shape Decisions: Rethinking How We Talk About Stopping Projects

Gloria J. Miller

A reflection on language, resistance, and the future of flexible project management Last year, our team set out to answer a question that might sound almost trivially simple: does it matter what we call things? Specifically, we were looking at the abandonment option in Real Options: the decision to exit a project early when evidence… Continue reading When Words Shape Decisions: Rethinking How We Talk About Stopping Projects

Artificial Intelligence · Project Management

The Fantasy of AI Projects: Chasing Accountability in a Delusional Age

Gloria J. Miller

At the IEEE conference last August, Harry Jones gave a provocative presentation about Fantasy Projects. He described these as visionary, exploratory endeavors that push the boundaries of what’s possible, i.e., the kind that expand humanity’s collective knowledge, even when their outcomes are uncertain. NASA’s Apollo missions, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Constellation program were… Continue reading The Fantasy of AI Projects: Chasing Accountability in a Delusional Age

agile · pmot · Project Management

From Manila to Practice: Advancing Real Options Thinking in Project Management

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At the Project Management Institute Asia Pacific conference in Manila, we presented a real options framework for project management. The topic was a bit heavy for one hour, but we think the audience appreciated that it was practical. At the end we asked the audience if they would be able to apply for it in… Continue reading From Manila to Practice: Advancing Real Options Thinking in Project Management

Artificial Intelligence · pmot

The intersection between project success factors and AI ethical principles

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An emerging topic in artificial intelligence (AI) projects is project teams’ responsibilities for developing ethical AI systems. Consequently, there are many ethical guidelines and principles that project teams should take into consideration. For example, Jobin, Ienca, and Vayena performed a content analysis of 84 AI ethical guidelines. 84. Ryan and Stahl translated those guidelines into… Continue reading The intersection between project success factors and AI ethical principles

Project Management

Projects and Holiday Season in Europe

Gloria J. Miller

Europeans take their vacations very seriously. They plan them weeks and months in advance. In Germany: People with or without children plan vacations around the published school holidays. People with children plan to spend time with their families, usually away somewhere, on vacation; people without children plan their vacations to avoid those people on vacation… Continue reading Projects and Holiday Season in Europe

agile · Project Management · Virtual

Managing Projects During this COVID Denial Phase

Gloria J. Miller

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic response, we wrote about 100% distributed working. Since then, we went through a phase of removing COVID restrictions, and now we are in the COVID denial phase. Each of these phases has a different effect on our projects. Impacts of COVID in the different phases During the COVID… Continue reading Managing Projects During this COVID Denial Phase

Artificial Intelligence · pmot

#AI Project Success — Book Chapter Published

Gloria J. Miller

Gloria J. Miller has a book chapter published by Springer entitled Artificial Intelligence Project Success Factors—Beyond the Ethical Principles in “Information Technology for Management: Business and Social Issues”. It details her paper that was presented at the FedCSIS 2021 conference in September 2021. The individual chapter is available as Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution… Continue reading #AI Project Success — Book Chapter Published

Project Management

Coming soon…digital assets in projects

Gloria J. Miller

Springer has accepted our manuscript on digital assets, and we hope to announce it here in the coming weeks. Projects are a vital vehicle for economic and social action and the source of innovation, research, and organizational change. They can be the size of a small nation’s gross domestic product or larger than the organizations… Continue reading Coming soon…digital assets in projects