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2026
Jun 5, 2026
What are hypercare exit criteria?
Hypercare exit criteria define when the intense post go-live support period can safely move into normal operations. Without them, hypercare either closes too early or turns into an open-ended support phase with unclear scope.
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Will AI replace project managers?
AI can summarize meetings, draft reports, classify risks, and make project information easier to see. That does not remove the need for project management. It changes where the project manager must create value: ownership, judgement, escalation, stakeholder alignment, and decision quality.
Read →Jun 3, 2026
Why AI transformation is not only a technology project
AI transformation is often discussed through tools, models, automation, and pilots. In practice, the harder question is organizational: who owns the data, which process will use the output, where human approval sits, and which business decision should improve.
Read →Jun 3, 2026
What is Fit-Gap? Managing scope risk in ERP projects
Fit-Gap is not a workshop for collecting every desired change. In an ERP project, it should make the difference between standard use, process decision, configuration, development, phasing, and rejection visible enough for real scope decisions.
Read →Jun 3, 2026
What is a PMO? Not a reporting office, but a decision system
A PMO may collect project information, but its real value is not the volume of reports it produces. A useful PMO makes decisions visible, clarifies ownership, improves escalation, and turns project management from personal effort into organizational discipline.
Read →Apr 15, 2026
Project Success, Redefined: Value > Effort + Expense
PMI's 2025 Project Success Research argues the classic triangle — on time, on budget, in scope — no longer adds up to success. The global Net Project Success Score sits at 36 out of 100. The field already knew this. Value shows up before the output does, in the space that trust, ownership and openness make room for.
Read →Apr 10, 2026
What is hypercare? Why the real test starts after go-live
Hypercare is the stretch right after go-live where the system is held up under real business load—not a label on a slide about “support weeks,” but concentrated stabilization and visibility. Go-live is not the finish line; data, process, ownership, and the decision line are tested afterwards. When things fray here, it is often less a technical collapse than sponsor and management visibility quietly falling away.
Read →Mar 17, 2026
The Transformation Paradox
As everything accelerates, why don’t clarity, trust, and judgement rise at the same pace?
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2025
Dec 18, 2025
7 Practical Takeaways for Project Professionals from PMI Global Summit 2025
At PMI Global Summit 2025 in Phoenix last month I saw again: project management is not just producing documents—it is making the right decision at the right time, aligning stakeholders to the same goal, and managing change. Standards are evolving, the AI agenda is accelerating, the community is growing. What still makes the difference in the field is the same: discipline + clarity + relationship management.
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Aug 1, 2025
The New Era's Code: The One Who Finishes Wins
Starting with an idea is easy. Persisting with courage is valuable. But what really makes the difference is being able to finish. Today access to knowledge in the business world has never been easier. AI tools create strategies in minutes, business ideas are produced quickly. But leaders who can turn these ideas into action and bring them to results with strategic moves are few.
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Jul 17, 2025
Hard Truths for Anyone Who Thinks ERP Is ‘Just Software’
ERP is an operating model change. Treating it as a software install leads to poor data, weak adoption, endless customization, and delayed ROI. Here are the hard truths leaders need to accept early.
Read →Jun 27, 2025
Who Carries the Heaviest Load in ERP Projects?
In the world of ERP and large-scale project management, success stories and tough processes are often discussed. At the end of a project there are celebrations, achievements are showcased or lessons are learned. But one truth remains unchanged: those who carry the heaviest load on that journey are often invisible on stage. So who really carries that load?
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