Project & transformation leader | Process improvement | Organizational effectiveness | Helping teams solve complex problems and improve how work gets done.
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Joined June 2011
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Agile training should change how teams work, not just teach new terminology.
Before booking training, ask one question:
What should our team be doing differently next Monday?
If you can’t answer that, you may be buying knowledge instead of improving performance.
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A project can be on time, on budget, and still fail.
Why?
Because completing the work is not the same as achieving the outcome.
Before I worry about the schedule, backlog, or methodology, I want to know one thing:
What should be different when this project is done?
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If your project status report says “green” but everyone involved knows it isn’t, you don’t have a reporting problem.
You have a project performance problem.
That’s usually where the interesting work starts.
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If your project is slipping, adding more meetings usually won’t fix it.
I usually look for three things first:
• Are the priorities actually clear?
• Does everyone know who owns the decisions?
• Are dependencies visible before they become emergencies?
Most project problems get much easier once you find the real constraint.
If you need an outside set of eyes:
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AI should not replace the project manager. It should replace the blank page.
Use it to turn the SOW, charter, prior project data, risks, and lessons learned into a credible first draft.
Then let the humans challenge it, improve it, and make the decisions.
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Most project performance problems are not caused by a lack of effort.
They usually come from unclear goals, too many priorities, weak ownership, slow decisions, or teams working at cross purposes.
Better performance starts with fixing those basics.
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AI is not just for coding.
Project managers can use it to clarify requirements, challenge assumptions, surface risks, summarize information, and make better decisions faster.
The question is not whether to use AI. It is where it actually helps.
If you want help applying AI to real project work, give us a call.
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Most troubled projects do not need another framework.
They need someone to figure out what is actually getting in the way.
Unclear goals. Too many priorities. Slow decisions. Fuzzy ownership. Poor communication.
Fix the problem, not the methodology.
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We don’t train to certifications. We train to outcomes.
The goal is not to memorize a framework or pass a test.
The goal is to improve project performance, make better decisions, and apply Agile in a way that actually works.
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A lot of Agile problems aren’t really Agile problems.
They’re unclear goals, weak priorities, fuzzy ownership, or poor communication.
The framework usually isn’t the hardest part. Execution is.
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Non-AI Video #3
“I want to have 100 employees in five years.”
That’s what an entrepreneur told me when I asked about his five-year goals.
I asked him: Why?
Then I asked his wife.
She talked about having a nice home, living somewhere safe, and raising their children there.
That’s the difference I’m talking about in this video.
100 employees might be a target. But what are you actually trying to accomplish?
A useful goal should help you make decisions.
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No video today. I’m thinking through the next one.
I think it will be about how entrepreneurs should set goals.
“I want to have 100 employees in 5 years” is not a goal.
Neither is “I want to grow the business.”
A real goal should help you make decisions about what to do next.
Next video coming soon.
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Non-AI Video #2
One of the simplest things I’ve done to keep myself moving in the right direction: write down where you want to be in 5 or 10 years.
Then ask: does this decision move me closer, farther away, or neither?
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My first intentionally “unprofessional” video, just so you know I’m not AI.
This is the first in a series on entrepreneurship, radically improving project performance, and how AI can support both.
AI isn’t the focus. But you can’t ignore it either, so you might as well learn how to use it to your advantage.
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If your AI strategy for projects starts and ends with coding, you’re missing the bigger opportunity.
AI can make project management dramatically more efficient: schedules, WBS, feature breakdowns, user stories, risk analysis, status reporting, estimates, dependencies, and change control.
The real opportunity isn’t just building faster.
It’s managing better.
(picture made with AI, not content)
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The project that almost killed me. Literally.
What started as a high-performing Agile team became a lesson in what happens when executive control replaces trust, autonomy, and common sense.
I finally wrote about it.
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Getting back to my roots lately. Less full-time consulting, more fractional project work, coaching, training, and solving messy problems.
I’m really enjoying the mix.
If you need experienced help without a full-time hire:
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Been doing more fractional project/consulting work lately and came across Ethos, a platform that pays business people to help train AI models.
The work has been interesting, and the pay is pretty solid.
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