Writing
Notes from the delivery side.
What I keep running into on AI programmes — the scoping mistakes, the governance gaps, and the reasons pilots do not survive contact with operations.
- Industry insights
AI delivery management: seven skills the certificates do not cover
Gartner forecast that 80% of project management work would be gone by 2030. The admin layer really is dissolving — and a new layer is growing that no certificate covers. Drawn from a register of 48 written-up engagements: what the job of a PM or delivery manager is actually made of now.
9 min read - Industry insights
The 20% feeling and the 19% fact
Developers using AI tools felt about 20% faster. The best-run experiment of last year measured them 19% slower — while a controlled trial elsewhere found a 55.8% speed-up. Both are real. What AI actually does to delivery speed depends on the work, and the feeling is not a measurement.
7 min read - Industry insights
The 95% number is doing a lot of work
Everyone quotes the statistic that 95% of AI pilots fail. Four widely cited figures range from 40% to 95% — because they measure four different things. A look at what the numbers actually say, from someone who benefits from them.
6 min read
Rather talk it through?
Reading about someone else's programme only gets you so far. Thirty minutes on yours gets you further.