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Short, practical articles on running agency projects: scope, capacity, governance, stakeholders, and where AI genuinely helps. Written from 25 years of doing the job, not from a textbook.
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Governance & Role Clarity: the template that ends "wait, who owns this?"
The Governance & Role Clarity template puts decision rights, an escalation path, a decision log and a sponsor review in one document, ready to fill in before kickoff.
Capacity planning for agencies: how to know if your team is actually overbooked
Why a resource plan with everyone at 100% means the team is overbooked, and how to count bookable hours and read utilisation.
What governance actually means for a midsize agency project
Why governance on a midsize agency project is one page, not a steering committee, and what that page needs to say.
Scope creep isn't a client problem, it's a documentation problem
Why scope creep is a documentation failure, not a client problem, and what a proper scope statement should say to prevent it.
Stakeholder Map vs RACI Matrix: what's the difference and when to use each
A stakeholder map and a RACI matrix look similar but answer different questions. Here is what each one is actually for, and how to use both properly.
Can AI run your kickoff meeting?
AI tools now promise to run your kickoff meeting for you. Here is what they are actually good at, what they still cannot do, and a workable way to use them.
The Project Discovery Brief: the document that stops projects starting on the wrong foot
Most projects don't fail in delivery. They fail because nobody agreed the basics up front. What a project discovery brief actually needs to cover, and why skipping it costs more later.
The PM Hub Template Library: what's coming, and why
The Delivery Lifecycle Model is live. Here's what's coming next: a full template library mapped to Brief, Plan, Deliver and Close, and why it's built this way.
The gap that kills most projects
Most projects don't fail in delivery. They fail before delivery even starts, in the gap between winning the work and knowing how you'll run it.
The challenges every PM has when starting at an agency
From messy handovers to constant scope creep: the real challenges new agency PMs face, and how PM Hub's frameworks help you handle them from day one.
AI in your PM workflow: how good is it, really?
A practical look at Asana and Monday.com's AI features: what actually saves time, and where a PM's judgment still can't be replaced.
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