To mark the the release of the second edition of “The Crazy PMPprep” (a novel about preparing for PMP and CAPM certification), we are publishing an excerpt from the book this week. This concerns Change Control. You witness a discussion between the (reluctant) project manager Henri and his patient and coach Peter Pomosch. The “Riemann” mentioned in passing is the director of the psychiatric clinic and initiator of the project “Concert performance with patients as musicians”.

Are project managers a dying breed too?

Why do occupations die out? There may be many reasons, but two are definitely drivers: technological and social changes.

Immer wieder taucht der fälschlicherweise Winston Churchill zugeschriebene, ziemlich einfältige Spruch auf: Traue keiner Statistik, die du nicht selbst gefälscht hast. Übrigens ist wahrscheinlich Josef Goebbels der Urheber (gemäss Werner Barke in: ‘Ich glaube nur der Statistik… Was Winston Churchill über Zahlen und Statistik gesagt haben soll – und was er wirklich sagte.’). Das aber nur am Rande.

What comes to your mind on the subject of the largest_online_retailer_whose_name_must_not_be_mentioned? The NZZ (Neue Züricher Zeitung) says on 16.05.2021: ‘Largest_online_retailer_whose_name_must_not_be_mentioned makes it happen: Digitalisation is bringing a new working class to modern society’.