Month: November 2025

Confidently Wrong – Post 2 In the first post about my Global Summit session “Confidently Wrong: Avoiding GenAI Pitfalls with SME-First Thinking” we summarized how GenAI works and how its training influences the results returned. It focused on how Large Language Models (LLMs) are pattern matchers that return likely and plausible results, but do not truly understand project management. LLMs have been trained on vast datasets which make them great for suggesting project artifact templates, but usually poor at filling in the details for your unique project. Also, due to their training materials, they tend to suggest summarized content of popular ideas, unless specifically forced to think deeper and broader. Finally, while their outputs look plausible, we always need a […]

Global Summit 2025 – Post 1 I had a great time last week at Global Summit. I did a presentation on using AI to augment team and SME knowledge rather than replace it. I co-presented on the evolution of the PMBOK Guide and agile integration from the 3rd to the 8th edition with Jonathan Lee and a guest appearance by Jesse Fewell. I also got to attend some great sessions and hang out with Agile Alliance board members (Bob Hartman, CP Richardson, Songbac Toh) at the Agile Arcade booth during breaks and lunches. This year, the sessions were not recorded, so I will highlight some of my points in a series of posts here. My talk was called “Confidently Wrong: […]