Artificial Intelligence · pmot

The intersection between project success factors and AI ethical principles

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

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

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 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

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

agile · Project Management · Social Media · Virtual

COVID-19 Motivated 100% Distributed Working–Project Management Impressions and Experiences

COVID-19 moved most project work to a 100% distributed working model overnight. That is, project teams that shared team rooms and physical space were suddenly working individually from a home office. Thus, all project work, with fixed deadlines and temporary team members, moved to a 100% distributed working model. I had the pleasure to work… Continue reading COVID-19 Motivated 100% Distributed Working–Project Management Impressions and Experiences

agile · pmot

Agile & Project Management Book Chapter

We have a book chapter Framework for Project Management in Agile Projects: A Quantitative Study in “Information Technology for Management: Current Research and Future Directions” published by Springer. It reports the results of a study conducted in 2019. The results quantify subjective and theoretical speculation on who performs the project management tasks in agile projects.… Continue reading Agile & Project Management Book Chapter

agile · pmot · Project Management

#Agile & Project Management Survey Results #pmot #projectmanagement

The Purpose The success rate for agile methodologies is on par with, if not better than, those managed under a traditional methodology. In addition, enterprise agile frameworks are at the peak of adoption. Thus, if agile methodologies are followed rigorously and exclude a project manager, then maybe the project manager role and some project management… Continue reading #Agile & Project Management Survey Results #pmot #projectmanagement