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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all the rage right now. And in this race to develop AI language models, ChatGPT appears to be in the lead, with plenty of competition on the horizon and more to come, i...

The team owner sits in a private, exclusive area at the stadium to watch the game. They have made it to the World Series, where everything rests on this final game! If his team wins, all the pride, pr...

The camera zooms in on the MLB Manager, who paces back and forth in the dugout. He had put in the work to train them, now the team needs to step up the game to pull ahead. He looks at the lineup. The ...

It’s the bottom of the ninth, two outs and the game is tied. The crowd is on their feet, screaming wildly! The winner will be determined by one person… the next player at bat. The batter steps up to t...

Gamification is the idea of using game-like elements to encourage engagement and motivate people to take certain actions. It may feel like a relatively new term, but gamification can be traced back to...

Baseball gets it. 

Baseball holds the unenviable reputation of slow game play, and, let’s face it, being a bit boring at times. How have fans reacted to this reality in recent years? By voting with t...

Kim Essendrup is the CEO and co-founder of RAIDLOG.com, founder of The Kolme Group, and co-host of the Project Management Happy Hour podcast. Kim also has the distinguished honor of being a two-time g...

March 3, 2023 marked The PMO Squad’s 10th year in business. Seems like yesterday that I decided to leave a steady job and regular paycheck from a large corporation and dive headfirst into the world of...

It’s been said that variety is the spice of life. That may be true when it comes to living life, but not necessarily when operating a business. A business thrives when repeatable, predictable, unchang...

The consultant stood at the whiteboard, explaining their process to a potential client. “We’ll do this, then that, then something auto-magically happens over here, and this final thing… oh, don’t worr...

Jim’s status on his instant messaging app was “Reporting for Duty, Sir -Sisyphus”. Not knowing who Sisyphus was, let alone what this message meant, Jim’s manager asked him about the cryptic message. 

One of the startling findings from The PMO Squad’s 2022 Research Report is that only 20% of PMO Leaders said they use a Coach! We paused to reflect on what is going on with the remaining 80% and concl...