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Kerr Earns PhD Connecting Go Proverbs to Project Management

Grant Kerr of Canada recently received a PhD degree by successfully defending his thesis, "Exploring Project Management by Exploiting Analogy with the Game of Go." Kerr used go to explore and expand project management concepts, receiving a PhD degree from the Skema Business School, one of France’s grandes ecoles. Kerr, who studies go with Yuan Zhou, used 83 go proverbs to create analogies with project management, then developed project management strategies based on these proverbs for dealing with uncertainty, conflict, change, weaknesses, etc. One area of future research will be to gather feedback from other project managers on these ideas; if you would like to participate, contact Kerr at gkerr@cips.ca. photo: Kerr (at right) receives his PhD