Monday Business
Project management, AI for PMs, and sustainable business practices.
Leveling Up Claude
Claude isn't the tool I open for a quick Teams summary — it's the one I reach for when a document is too long to fully hold in my head. Projects, memory, and what a bigger context window actually buys you.
Read →Leveling Up Copilot
Most people use Copilot to draft emails and never go further. Here's what changes once you push past the chat box — Teams, Word, Excel, and building your first agent in Copilot Studio.
Read →Leveling Up Your AI Skills: Overview
Picking the right AI tool was never the hard part. Getting good at it is. Here's what actually separates PMs who get value from AI from PMs who tried it for two weeks and gave up.
Read →Exploit or Error, the Blast Radius Looks the Same: NIST's Push Into Critical Infrastructure
A DEF CON 34 talk on NIST's new AI Risk Management Framework profile for critical infrastructure, grounded in a real December 2025 incident — plus a direct ask from the presenter about how to get involved.
Read →Your Driver's License Photo Is Probably in a Police Face Database
A DEF CON 34 talk laid out the numbers on Flock's camera network and police facial recognition. Here's what the data shows, and why the purpose it was collected for matters.
Read →Using AI to Translate Technical Jargon
Every PM eventually lands in a room where they don't speak the language.
Read →Writing (and Responding to) RFPs with AI
RFPs are one of the most time-consuming documents in project management — and one of the most underutilized opportunities for AI to help.
Read →Three Days at DEF CON: What AI Security Looks Like From the Attacker's Side
I spent three days at DEF CON 34 watching people break AI systems for a living. Here's what stuck with me as a PM working on AI Enablement.
Read →Using AI for Difficult Stakeholder Conversations
The email sits in your drafts folder because you don't know what to write — or you know what you want to say but can't figure out how to say it without blowing up the relationship.
Read →I Built a Copilot Agent to Pull Lessons Learned—Here's Why It Works
Every organization has lessons learned buried in SharePoint. Most PMs don't read them. I built an agent that makes them useful again.
Read →I Built a Copilot Agent to Compile Lessons Learned—Here's How It Works
Gathering lessons learned is straightforward. Synthesizing fifty survey responses into a useful readout is where the time goes. This is the agent that does that work.
Read →How I Use Claude Code (And Why It Sounds Like Me)
I use three AI tools. Each one fits a different context. Here's how they divide up my work — and what actually surprised me after six months of doing this for real.
Read →AI for Meeting Prep — How I Read a 100-Page Packet in Minutes
City council packets. Steering committee briefings. Any meeting where the prep material is more than you can reasonably read. Here's how AI changes what's possible.
Read →Better Status Reports with AI—Spend Your Friday on Review, Not Assembly
Status reports used to eat my entire Friday. Now they take about an hour. Here's the workflow.
Read →AI-Assisted Risk Identification—Expand Your List, Apply Your Judgment
AI doesn't know your project. But it knows every risk pattern that's ever been written about. Here's how to combine what it knows with what you know.
Read →A PM's Guide to Choosing an AI Tool
There are dozens of AI tools and everyone has an opinion. Here's a practical framework for choosing the right one for your work—based on actual use, not marketing.
Read →How to Track Sustainability on an AI Program Using GPM P5™
I'm applying GPM P5™ to a live enterprise AI enablement program — but the data belongs to my employer, not my blog. Here's the framework I built so you can apply it to your own AI projects.
Read →GPM P5™ in Practice — Tracking Sustainability on a Live AI Program
I set a 2026 goal to apply GPM P5™ to live IT projects. Here's what that looks like in practice — the kickoff, the metrics framework I built, and the first five months of results from an enterprise-wide AI enablement program.
Read →Your AI Usage Is Being Logged—Here's What That Means for PMs
Every prompt you send through your company's AI tool leaves a record. That's not a threat—it's something you should understand and use to your advantage.
Read →Data Privacy in AI Projects—What You Can and Can't Share
Your AI tool is only as trustworthy as what you put into it. Here's how to think about what stays out.
Read →The GATE Framework: AI Governance for PMOs
Your team is already using AI. The question is whether you're governing it intentionally.
Read →Building an AI Usage Policy Your Team Will Actually Follow
Most AI policies fail because practitioners don't write them. The Green-Yellow-Red framework for building a one-page policy that provides real guidance without compliance theater.
Read →Making It Real — AI Experience Accelerator Day 2
Day 1 was about possibilities. Day 2 was about the walk home. How the Kwik Trip team used the Deep Dive Canvas to map out Care Navigator and turn six AI use cases into concrete next steps.
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What Happens When AI Stops Being a Lecture
I went to Chicago expecting slides. I got a working session instead. How Microsoft's AI Experience Accelerator turned a day of retail companies loose on real AI use cases—and what the Kwik Trip team walked away with.
Read →AI Ethics for PMs—The Dilemmas Nobody's Talking About
AI ethics for project managers isn't about data privacy policies. It's about professional integrity—when you use AI to produce work, who's accountable for what it says?
Read →AI + PMO: The Manual Work You Should Eliminate First
Your PMO team is spending hours on tasks a gen AI agent can do in minutes. A real example of automating stakeholder register lookups—and how to find your own first automation target.
Read →AI Won't Replace Project Managers—But PMs Who Use AI Will Replace Those Who Don't
The honest case for why AI won't replace PMs—and why PMs who ignore it will lose ground. The valuable parts of the job remain human; AI just clears away the busywork.
Read →I'm a PM Who Uses AI Daily—Here's What I've Learned
A working PM's honest take on AI tools: what actually helps (meeting notes, first drafts, brainstorming), what doesn't (org context, judgment calls), and the daily workflow that works.
Read →5 PM Tasks AI Actually Does Well (And 5 It Doesn't)
Based on daily AI use in project management: five tasks where AI genuinely saves time and five where it falls flat, with specific prompts for the tasks that work.
Read →Your First Week Using AI as a Project Manager
Five day-by-day experiments for PMs new to AI: meeting notes, difficult conversation prep, email drafts, risk brainstorming, and technical translation. No hype, just useful first steps.
Read →I Did the Math: Why Our $112K Investment Returns 8.9%
Solar, geothermal, and EVs aren't expenses—they're a capital investment that generates tax-free returns by eliminating recurring costs. We ran the numbers.
Read →How I'd Project-Manage Your Zero-Emissions Home
A $339K zero-emissions renovation on a historic 1866 home, managed with enterprise PM discipline: phased sequencing, vendor coordination, and hard lessons learned.
Read →How I'm Integrating Sustainability into IT Project Management (My 2026 Goals)
Three public 2026 goals: AI-driven PMO efficiency, GPM P5™ on live IT projects, and a process pilot to prove sustainable practices reduce waste and cycle time.
Read →GPM P5™ Primer: What It Is and Why I'm Using It for IT Projects
The Green Project Management P5 Standard integrates sustainability into IT projects across five dimensions: Product, Process, People, Planet, and Prosperity.
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