By the Top7 Strategy Team If you are still managing projects the way you did in 2023—obsessing over Gantt chart updates, manually chasing status reports, and policing timesheets—your role is in immediate danger. As we enter 2026, the discipline of Project Management (PM) is undergoing its most radical metamorphosis since the invention of the Critical Path Method in the 1950s. The administrative "middleman" is being automated out of existence. In its place, a new role is emerg