Coordinators, analysts, and team leads running projects nobody gave you the title for: the people who brought Apollo 13 home had no authority over anyone in the capsule. Neither did the two divers who got thirteen people out of a flooded cave in Thailand. Authority was never the requirement. It still isn’t. This is the […]
AI PDUs: How to Renew Your PMP While Learning to Build With Data and AI
Every three years, PMI asks you for 60 PDUs. Each PDU stands for an hour of learning, teaching, or volunteering, so that’s a lot of hours you’re going to spend one way or another. It’s tempting to spend them on whatever is free and fast: webinars half-watched in a second tab. The certificate renews. Nothing […]
The Money Is Betting You Won’t: What AI Roll-Ups Mean for Mid-Market Companies
An AI-enabled roll-up buys existing services businesses and installs AI itself to run them at higher margins. Investors are putting serious capital behind the model, including $1.5 billion of General Catalyst’s latest fundraise as of September 2025. Read as a bet, that money says the companies already in those markets won’t build the capability themselves. […]
It’s Already in Your Multiple: Markets Priced the AI Payoff Before Most Companies Organized for It
Public markets have already priced a large AI payoff into the companies that use software, not just the ones that build AI. A September 2026 NBER working paper estimates that AI news from November 2022 through 2025 raised the market’s expected value of software-engineering productivity by the equivalent of a permanent 32.6% increase, concentrated in […]
AI Project Manager Competencies: What the Role Must Cover, Mapped to NIST and PMI
An AI project manager needs two layers of competence: the project leadership PMI’s PMP certifies, and the ability to carry out the four functions of NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework (Govern, Map, Measure and Manage) on every AI system they deliver. NIST says what an organization should do to manage AI risk; below, each function […]