In this week’s pod, we welcomed Ed Van Der Tak to discuss Project Planning & Technology trends.With over 30 years of experience in planning and scheduling, Ed has worked in various positions and areas within Project Planning & Management. He lives and works in The Netherlands but has also worked and trained in the Middle East.In the early 1990s Ed started his career as a planning engineer in major turn-around projects. Between 2000 and 2009, Ed was co-owner of a Dutch consultancy and training company. In 2011 he founded the Dutch Planning and Scheduling institute to promote the profession and develop new skills and techniques.Ed currently works as a planning manager on a €1bn infrastructure programme in The Netherlands and is a lecturer at the University of Applied Science in Rotterdam.Ed has always been interested in new techniques and future ways of working. He follows trends in technology and automation to start to use these techniques and change our mindset.The main topics we discussed on the podcast were as follows:

• A good planner needs to be a good storyteller
• A planner should approach the from different angles e.g. cost impact or risk impact
• Many infrastructure companies are already collecting data to enable machine learning on projects
• The rise in the use of AI on project may lead to the role of a project planner becoming more generic and turning into an analyst type role
• Will AI create or prevent creativity?

Recommended book by Ed. – https://www.amazon.com/Time-Users-Guide-Stefan-Klein/dp/0141034637/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?crid=1BNK2AI8E7TV&keywords=stefan+klein+user+guide&qid=1658525679&sprefix=stefan+klein+user+guide%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-6

Pictures of the AR cube (in a box concept) presented by Ed during our conversation.

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