Productivity

This week, beprojectmanager.com has reached the milestone of 100,000 views. A significant achievement that I particularly want to celebrate with the community of ERP project managers and project management enthusiasts.

Agent-based AI increases productivity potential, but unconsciously encourages overproduction by constantly raising the bar. This professional ambition exhausts teams. The challenge for project managers in 2026 is to regulate this energy consumption, avoid constant context switching between machine logic and human management, and find the right balance.

Microsoft Planner structures collaborative work through an intuitive Kanban interface. The tool enables granular task management: color-coded labeling, prioritization, progress tracking, and document centralization. Its integration with Teams and Azure DevOps optimizes productivity. Despite the lack of a native budgeting module, exporting to Excel and Power BI ensures effective management.

The ego, a survival mechanism that has become a tool for self-presentation, saturates our cognitive resources. In a world of virtual validation, the need to appear infallible paralyzes collective performance. This post explores how a clear-sighted analysis of one's own ego and that of others allows us to move from a defensive posture to a dynamic of genuine achievement and lasting effectiveness.