Top 1% LinkedIn contributor despite my project management heresy
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
LinkedIn advises I’m in the *top 1%* of quality contributors to Project Management articles here.
Despite my recent posts about current Project Management overcomplications.
Writing about Project Management topics on the collaborative articles here can be weird.
The 750 character text limit is similar to the Twitter character limit, forcing ideas to be written concisely.
And many of the topics proposed by the LinkedIn AI are just silly, and I promptly ignore the clickbait AI word salad topics.
And since LinkedIn has mostly done away with their Contributor Gold Badges, some of the fun of contributing and knowledge sharing is taken away.
Up till last week I had 3 gold badges for LinkedIn contributions:
Project Management
Program Management (groups of related projects)
Data Analytics
But LinkedIn wiped out / deleted many gold contributor badges for everyone. Which is kind of weird.
I still have a gold badge on my LinkedIn profile though for Project Management.
Whatever the rationale by LinkedIn for the new rules is a mystery to me.
LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft) is constantly changing their secret algorithms here.
Anyway, here’s 2 of my recent standalone posts about the current state of Project Management Body of Knowledge, with my view that current Project Management Theory is overcomplicated:
And the link to my contribution to the collaborative article in the screenshot below is here:
(my tl;dr contribution is … don’t BS stakeholders about problems)