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Check out the list of new releases in 2025 with a recent resource management planning set of features as a key rollout.

Ending 2025 with New Resource Planning Features — Pie | Project management with AI and repeatable hybrid agile processes This article is about summarizing our 2025 releases, which includes a new resource management feature set for viewing planning work effort hours for each team member to help with planning and forecasting.

New blog post — Learn about my top three project failure problems listed in the book "How Big Things Get Done", and Pie's new generative AI features recently released. The AI features are targeted to help solve these project problems.

3 Project Problems and How Generative AI Can Help — Pie Pie brings generative AI to your projects for better planning, task generation, and detailed how-to knowledge to help team members execute tasks. Modularization in Pie has been enhanced to bring more Lego-like approaches for reusability.

If you're with a consulting firm, have you considered "slow thinking" to kick off your engagement planning? In my new blog post I talk about Prof. Bent Flyvbjerg researching mega projects and their failures. He found they rush into project ex*****on too quickly. The tiny percent of successful companies use "slow thinking" in their planning process. My blog expands this artful way of project planning by introducing how to use generative AI (ChatGPT) to help with identifying better thinking and doing.

The Art of Project Management (with AI) — Pie Turn a project into a master painting where it’s on time, within budget, and the resulting business value is perfect. We’ll talk about how to do this with the help of generative AI.

Here's a new blog post that reveals the top 13 business processes that all major companies drive.

What are the World's Top 13 Core Business Processes? — Pie The top business processes that companies use around the world can be summed up in these 13 APQC PCF categories. Learn about what is PCF, what is the list of the core 13, listen to the CEO of a consulting company share experiences and how they implement APQC PCF with Pie.

Are you tracking your program and project benefits? Here's an article about different frameworks and how to implement them.

Benefits Management for Projects and Programs — Pie Many large projects and programs are missing benefits realization management steps. Without benefits management, these programs could easily fail. Read about types of frameworks, and how to implement them for your programs.

Introducing Pie Project Connector for Jira. All Sprints between Pie and Jira can sync in real time. Let your hard-core Jira developers work in Jira and the managers and rest of the team members work in Pie.

https://www.pie.me/blog/pie-project-management-connector-for-jira

Pie Project and Program Management Connector for Jira — Pie The Pie Project Management Connector for Jira is for hybrid agile projects. It's great for hybrid agile projects. Perfect when your development team prefers to use Jira and when the rest of the project team, such as program managers, client team members, and stakeholders, prefer to use Pie, which is

Nike's "Just Do It" tagline is just not enough. Check out the new blog post about building good habits and examples for project management.

"Just Do It" Doesn't Work. Sorry, Nike. — Pie Nike’s “Just Do It” doesn’t work enough to solidify changes for habits. It can take months of repetitiveness to become automated so we don’t need to think about it. Read examples about forming habits to impact life and work, especially project management activities.

How did COVID-19 teach us about project failures?

3 Lessons COVID-19 Taught Us About Project Failures — Pie COVID-19 was a disaster because of no preparation, hard to implement government best practices, and now, little focus on using lessons learned for the future. This post introduces 3 ways we improve project management from these three failures.

Are you ready to think about Project Empathy? I introduce 4 games your team can play to help build empathy when working together on projects.

4 Games for Project Empathy — Pie We all talk about collaboration on projects, but do we talk about project empathy? This article proposes 4 games for your team to help build empathy on projects. Learn about the power of empathy and how it can humanize collaboration and enhance results.

Wow! You can easily communicate with your colleagues in Microsoft Teams and run your organization’s projects all in the same window. Robert Field, a Pie customer, shares how he did it and share’s how Pie is their “linchpin” and “game changer”. Watch Rob's short video on how easy it is to embed Pie in Teams and the value it brought to his company.

Microsoft Teams with Pies "Game Changer" — Pie Wow! You can easily communicate with your colleagues in Microsoft Teams and run your organization’s projects all in the same window. Robert Field, a Pie customer, shares how he did it and share’s how Pie is their linchpin and game changer. Listen to his short video on how easy this is and the va...