A recent live discussion featuring Gabriel Steinhardt, founder of Blackblot and one of the most seasoned voices in technology product management, cuts through the noise around one of the most consequential trends in the industry: mass tech layoffs. Gabriel Steinhardt’s argument is blunt — AI is not the primary driver. It’s a convenient story. The … Read more
A New Reality: AI Is Not Coming—It Is Already Here Artificial Intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept cautiously explored in innovation labs. It is already embedded in the operational fabric of organizations, quietly but decisively reshaping how work gets done. Nowhere is this more visible than in project management and PMO structures, where traditional … Read more
In 2012 movie Battleship, Lt. Alex Hopper, who assumed the command of the destroyer USS John Paul Jones, with help of Japanese captain Yugi Nagata, for the final battle with hostile alien invaders, called upon the old-Navy crew of the WWII-era battleship USS Missouri (BB-63). At the moment of critical need, gray-haired and bald people … Read more
A recent Visual Capitalist (Charted: China’s Energy Needs Keep on Rising) breakdown highlights a reality many prefer to ignore: global energy consumption is accelerating, not slowing down. China alone already consumes more energy than the U.S. and EU combined (by 2030, China’s total energy consumption is projected to grow by another ~20–25%), and projections show … Read more
For decades, we have referred to people in organizations as “Human Resources” — a term rooted in an industrial-era mindset where humans were grouped with machines, raw materials, and land. In that old worldview, humans were not seen as unique value creators but as replaceable, allocatable, optimizable units of labor. That linguistic choice was never … Read more
Presentation to PMINJ Chapter on 02/12/2026 – Download Slides AI Generated humor Previous Related Publications You Get What you Ask For: Agile Coaches-“Centaurs” Avoid False Equivalency In Selecting Your Guides Scrum Master’s Resume To Steer Away From Before You Cancel Out Agile Coaching And Say “Agile Is Dead” – Read This! Why Agile Roles Are … Read more
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