/ Articles by Rachel Burger

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. — Lao Tzu Change management and project management are closely aligned. Project managers can (and should) act as change managers.

The construction industry needs us, ladies. As Procore detailed in a blog post earlier this month, the construction industry is facing a personnel shortage, and Millennial women are poised to meet the need. They point out that women in leadership roles tend to improve decision making and are good for not just for the construction industry, but for the United States’ GDP as a whole.

A brand is the promise of an experience. Walk into a Starbucks and you know you’ll be surrounded by hipsters and overpriced but delicious coffee. Go to Disney and expect to experience “magic.” Shop at Whole Foods and you can anticipate locally-grown or organic produce—and prices to match.

Want to make bank? Get a PMP, get into consulting, and move to Australia. Project managers are the goal-setters of the business world. Their job is full-time planning—what part of a larger project should who be working on for how long? Questions like how much money to budget for a project, estimating how much time will be dedicated to working out setbacks, and making sure team communication is on point is all part of the job.

Whether the shift is toward business Agility in its entirety, or simply toward Agile project budgets, it's indisputable that the Agile mindset is permeating businesses big and small, locally and internationally.

Have you heard of business Agile yet? If not, don't worry—you're not that far behind. It's only started to catch on in early 2017, but the concept is spreading faster than contempt for the new credit card chip readers that only sometimes work.

Within the next five years, an app's capacity to work with AI will be more important than its mobile or cloud capabilities. In a recent Gartner report, aptly titled, “Conversational AI to Shake Up Your Technical and Business Worlds" authors Tom Austin, Mark Hung, and Magnus Revang argue that artificial intelligence will be so ingrained in the workforce that AI integration will be essential by 2021. (The full report is available to Gartner clients.)

It's a work night at 11:20 p.m. I'm sitting in an old "Peanuts" shirt and a gray, too-big pair of sweatpants staring at this blog post. "Shameless" plays quietly behind me. My boyfriend, Garrett, only half-paying attention, flicks through muted YouTube clips of Shinsuke Nakamura on his iPad.

Did you know that QuickBooks serves 29 million small businesses in the United States? And that it takes up 80% of the small business accounting software market?