Are the New Ways of Working Really About Managing Projects Better?

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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal

For years, new ways of working have been discussed mainly in terms of methodologies, practices, tools, and now AI.

But what if the deeper shift is not in how we manage projects, but in the organizational conditions in which projects operate?

Can projects really become more adaptive if authority, governance, learning, and the surrounding organization remain unchanged?

I explore this question in The New Ways of Working in Projects through eight transitions that may be reshaping Project Management.

What do you think needs to change most: how we manage projects, or the organizations in which projects operate?

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The New Ways of Working in Projects

Posted: Sep 15, 2026 11:08 AM

Stelian ROMAN Project Manager| MicroSafety Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia

First of all, the definition of 'new ways of working' is not clear. For some, it means Agile; for others, working from home. Recently, Agile has been replaced by AI. Any new tool may trigger new ways of working.

"Can projects really become more adaptive if authority, governance, learning, and the surrounding organization remain unchanged?" IMHO not. Sadly, this is what some 'scaled Agile' frameworks do: preserving everything by adding the word Agile in front of processes and roles/

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." A. Einstein

Posted: Sep 15, 2026 10:32 PM

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Are the New Ways of Working Really About Managing Projects Better?

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