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Over the past 20 years, project management tools have improved every year with promises of more productivity, faster, and better than ever before. We’d have a hard time keeping up with the increasing complexity without these advances. Nobody is disputing that.

We have the Project Management Institute (PMI^®) with their PM Book of Knowledge (PMBOK). We have thousands of certified Project Management professionals.

We have Microsoft^® SharePoint for central documentation, Microsoft^® Project, SmartSheet^® and hundreds of other online tools.

We have Jira^®, VersionOne^®, and CA Agile Central^® for technical teams, Microsoft^® Excel with embedded Business Intelligence tools for analysis and active management.

We have collaboration tools like WebEx^®, GoToMeeting^®, Zoom^®, and Teams^® (formerly Skype for Business^®) to keep teams in sync because now we often work virtually.

We have agile development philosophy and frameworks, scrum, SAFe, and others.

Every year PMI^® brilliantly updates the PM Book of Knowledge. Every year updated tools with better features appear on the market. We are gloriously awash in tools and science with so much more going for us than 10 years ago.

All we have to do is learn the science, and we can turn the odds to our favor, right?

Uhh, not really. Despite all these technical advantages, our success rates continue falling. What is worse, many projects that make it into the success column don’t add Business Value to the company.

In Edge of Tomorrow, Cage had the most intricate weaponized armor imaginable. He had machine guns strapped to both arms and two rocket launchers on his back. He had state-of-the-art sensors, and a computerized voice feeding him instructions. His armor gave him superhuman strength, including the ability to jump out of an aircraft and land on his feet unharmed. He could push cars out of the way with his hands. Millions went into every high-tech suit, but he still died in the sand.

Like Cage, we also continue to die on the beach. We might reach further inland, but we still fall to cunning Mimics hidden in the sand 70% of the time.

Despite these horrific odds, we knew in our souls that we could win at this game of Project Management. Failure wasn’t an option. For Cage, the Alpha Mimic’s blood brought him into a special awareness and the time loop. For us, we returned to the Matrix metaphor. We summoned all of our courage to step out of the herd and open our eyes.

We took the red pill.