There is always a trade-off between organizing the workshop and getting the job done.
We all know people who have fabulous kitchens and can't serve a decent meal, or have enormous garages and workshops with dutifully laid out tool walls and floors you could eat off - but never get used for anything (which explains why they are so clean?).
- which of these things is not like the other?
The primary efforts at HRI are about getting the job done.
The primary efforts at HRI are about knowing what the tools should be and using them correctly.
- HOW CAN THIS BE? or rather - how can it be any other way if anything new is going to get done right? (Sure - you don't need project managers for baking bread - but you will need them to build a better bakery.)
So:
- HRI need lots of projects to keep itself alive and its members making money. (Or saving the world if that's their shtick)
but - HRI also needs to evaluate those projects and discover and determine what tools are good and when.
SO: to get work done & make money;
Project Management is the most important thing
to know what to do and how to do it - better than the competition - or just "good".
Knowledge Management is the most important thing.