Organizations make a huge mistaken when they treat project management and operations as separate disciplines. They're not. They're siblings, not neighbors. People always talk about project management and operations as though they're completely different functions with completely different goals. Projects launch things. Operations maintain things. Projects create change. Operations create stability. Projects are temporary. Operations are ongoing. All of that is true, but it's

If everything is project management, what happens when the project succeeds? It becomes operations. At some point, someone decided to implement a new system, launch a new service, create a new policy, establish a new process, or solve a problem. And while they’re working on that, it’s a project. It has: Meetings Timelines Milestones Status updates People are actively thinking about it. And if you're good at your job (especially the risk mitigation part), the project succeeds.

The longer I work (and it is feeling REALLY long lately), the more convinced I am that everything is project management. I know some PM traditionalists are going to come at me for it, but I said what I said. The impact doesn’t matter. The complexity doesn’t matter. The scale doesn’t matter. The budget doesn’t matter. The audience doesn’t matter. The industry doesn’t matter. If it has a start, a plan, deliverables, and a close, it’s a project. Of course building critical infra