Thoughts on various aspects of project management, PMO and Change Management through an SSLM lens. New posts as I write them.
A series in ten parts 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.