WRITING
Notes on delivery, scope, and AI that earns its keep.
Roughly monthly. Mostly things I wish someone had told me in year three.
Under budget is a design decision, not luck
We closed a $3M platform rebuild roughly $40K under. None of that came from cutting corners — it came from three choices made in week one.
The nine-part prompt I hand every new PM
A framework, not a template. Here is what each part is for, and what breaks when you skip it.
Agents don't fix a broken process. They scale it.
Automating a bad workflow gets you more of the bad workflow, faster and with more confidence. Do the boring diagnosis first.
What fifteen years of scope conversations taught me about saying no
The most valuable sentence in delivery is “yes, and here is what moves.” Here is how to make it land.