Writing on project delivery, PMO practice, change management and what AI actually changes about the project management profession.
An occasional series on the project management profession learning to work with AI rather than fear it, a nod to David Bowie’s “Loving the Alien.” New posts as they publish.
Was AI built with a purpose, or simply because it could be? A background briefing in three lenses — historical, philosophical and economic — before the series proper begins.
Read the post →What AI is really changing in project management, once you put down both the hype and the fear: it eats the paperwork, not the accountability, and a light framework matters more, not less.
Read the post →Every project feels unique to the people inside it — and structurally almost none are. The cover-songs truth about projects, the outside view and reference-class forecasting, and why that's good news for anyone with a framework.
Read the post →A subject-matter expert tells you what to build; an operations manager will run it beautifully once it exists. Turning the ambition into a finished result is a profession of its own — the specific value a project manager brings that neither can, and how SSLM makes it light enough to use.
Read the post →Why the people side belongs in the plan from day one — a confession about the Friday I felt like a hero and the Wednesday nobody was using the system, with a nod to Kerrie Smit's Agencia Change model.
Read the post →More to come — on RAID logs, PMOs, benefits, and the quiet art of not over-engineering things.