Happy new year!

The 0.9th edition of Atomic Project Management is out!

Following the hallowed traditions of project management, I trimmed down the scope of this edition so I could make the 2022 deadline. This edition has everything except the appendices. You will get the full, unabridged version and the JSON file in the first quarter of 2023.

If you purchased Professional Project Management with Roam, you should be able to download the EPUB or the PDF of Atomic Project Management at your Gumroad library. If you prefer to buy it separately, here is its page: https://kahlilcorazo.gumroad.com/l/atomicPM

As you will eventually see in Appendix I of the upcoming 1st edition, this book was brought up with the help of an entire tribe. Your help in making it better will also be greatly appreciated. I'd love to hear your feedback. I’m @kcorazo on Twitter, and my email address is sugbu@corazo.org.

As we start this new year, my hope is that this book helps your turn more of your ideas into reality!

Cheers,

Kahlil

Our job as entrepreneurs and creators is to turn ideas into reality.

Many of these ideas require more than the core work of our craft. In order to manifest these ideas in the world, we need to pull together varied types of work, possibly from many individuals, and bring them to harmony.

This orchestration of work is the age-old practice of project management.

Atomic Project Management brings together the "minimum effective dose" of project management tools for entrepreneurs and self-employed creators: enough to help us orchestrate work but not too much that it distracts us from our actual job of building the business or practicing our craft.

The project management approach of this book is atomic not only in the minimalist sense. There is an ideal approach for each kind of project. Similar to how complex organisms are ultimately made of a few kinds of atoms, these varied approaches to different kinds of projects comprise a handful of simple tools. The goal of this book is to teach you these tools.

Since this book is written for entrepreneurs and independent creators, it includes chapters not found in most project management books. For instance, Chapter 5: Cultivating Serendipity. Unlike full-time project managers, we have the power to start, end or change our projects at any time. This gives us the freedom to pivot toward unexpected good fortune. How do we increase our chances of getting lucky? How can we be more ready to pursue good fortune? In this chapter, I share the serendipity playbook I have compiled over the years.

A concern I frequently hear from people I train is how to persevere in their projects. In Chapter 9, I share tools for managing motivation. In Chapter 10, I share my journey from “wartime productivity” to “peacetime productivity.” The key to more creative and impactful projects is not to become a productivity robot. It is to understand and embrace our humanity.

One surprise that unfolded in the two years of writing this book was the release of artificial intelligence tools like the OpenAI GPT-3 Playground and ChatGPT. The book shows how we can use these A.I. tools to allow us to spend less time on project planning and focus more on creative work.

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