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What if the best project manager didn't exist? In this provocative and future-facing manifesto, Peter Taylor, the original Lazy Project Manager, asks the uncomfortable questions about the impact on his profession from the inexorable rise of artificial intelligence.
Traditional project management has created a substantial legacy, but what if project managers aren't evolving but evaporating? What if success no longer needs a command-and-control human hero at the helm? Thanks to the power of AI, the next generation of project delivery won't be managed, it will be orchestrated, seamlessly, silently, invisibly. It just might be the end of project management as we know it and the beginning of something radically smarter-but humans will still be very much involved, and this book explains how. It defines the 'Invisible Project Manager' future where AI systems manage workflows, timelines, and resources, while the 'human-in-the-loop' will be a vastly different skillset moving from the managers of activities to guardians of outcome. Accelerated change to the project management profession is arriving soon, and at speed.
This book is an essential and thought-provoking guide to evolution for forward-looking leaders, digital transformation strategists, and change agents who are planning for the long game. Are you ready to disappear?
List of contents
Foreword (by James Garner and Mashhood Ahmed) 1. Introduction 2. Long live the managed project 3. The great delusion, why we fell in love with project managers 4. Software ate the tools, now it's eating the role 5. The rise of the invisible project manager 6. A lazy personal comparison 7. A professional objective comparison 8. The myth of irreplaceability 9. Project Darwinism, the survival of the AI adopters 10. The future is not managing, it's orchestrating 11. The Invisible project manager manifesto 12. Not a single evolutionary path 13. Ending with a smile 14. A final word (after the rain). Appendices
About the author
Peter Taylor is a Keynote speaker and coach, and the author of the number 1 bestselling project management book
The Lazy Winning Project Manager, along with many other books. He has built and led some of the largest PMOs in the world, now with Dayforce, where he is the VP Global PMO. He has also delivered over 500 lectures around the world in 30 countries and has been described as 'perhaps the most entertaining and inspiring speaker in the project management world today'.
