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 […]
AI Project Manager Salary Guide 2026: What Employers Pay for the Role
An AI project manager plans and leads the deployment of AI systems inside an organization, and is accountable for carrying each one from approved pilot to governed, measurable production across every vendor and model involved. The template below defines that role from public sources, including O*NET’s Information Technology Project Manager profile, the NIST AI Risk […]