The Digital Project Manager
by Galen Low
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The Business Cost of Overloading Your Best Project Managers
The Business Cost of Overloading Your Best Project Managers
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The Digital Project Manager is the home of digital project management inspiration, how-to guides, tips, tricks, tools, funnies, and jobs. We provide project management guidance for the digital wild west where demanding stakeholders, tiny budgets and stupid deadlines reign supreme.
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- The Business Cost of Overloading Your Best Project Managers · 49 minProject managers are being asked to take on more strategic work, navigate competing priorities, and deliver results under increasing pressure. But when being constantly available…
- Do Freelance Project Managers Really Need Industry Experience? · 47 minFinding the right freelance project manager can feel like searching for a unicorn. Do you hire someone who knows your industry inside out, or someone who can solve the problem in…
- What Does 10X Engineering Mean for Technical Program Managers? · 56 minAI is changing how software gets built, but does that mean technical program managers (TPMs) and engineering managers should become one role? Not so fast. As engineering teams…
- How to Manage Stakeholder Expectations Around AI Search · 52 minAI search is changing discovery, but the playbook isn’t about finding a magic prompt, tag, or shortcut. Matt Slater, founder of Receipts, explains why AEO and GEO still depend on…
- What Will Project Leaders Stop Doing Because of AI? · 21 minAI’s biggest opportunity in professional services may not be replacing expertise—it’s removing the operational drag that keeps experts from using it. In this conversation…
- How to Give Leaders Visibility Into Strategic Initiatives Without More Reporting · 42 minStrategic initiatives rarely stall because teams aren’t working hard enough. More often, the information leaders need to make timely decisions is scattered across Jira, Asana…
- How Change-Ready Organizations Turn Strategy Into Action · 53 minChange is no longer something organizations can neatly package into a transformation initiative. It’s constant—and the real challenge is keeping strategy, decisions, and…
- How to Create Decision Clarity During AI Transformation · 44 minAI is changing more than how work gets done—it’s changing who gets to make decisions in the first place. And that makes role clarity, decision rights, and organizational design…
- What to Do When You Outgrow Your Project Manager Title · 1 h 4 minFor many project professionals, the job title that once felt like a marker of progress can eventually start to feel like a box. And with AI disruption, shifting responsibilities…
- Why AI Efficiency Doesn’t Have to Mean Cutting Headcount · 51 minWhen margins get tight, reducing headcount can look like the fastest route to a healthier balance sheet. But in professional services, there’s a catch: your people aren’t just a…
- How to Work With a Founder Who Keeps Changing Direction · 55 minFounders are wired to look ahead: spotting opportunities, chasing possibilities, and imagining what the business could become. Project and operations people tend to live closer…
- How to Build Real AI Fluency Across Your Team · 50 minAI fluency isn’t about knowing the latest tools, collecting certificates, or casually dropping “agentic” into a meeting. It’s about knowing where AI fits into the work—and where…
- How AI Can Help You Make Better Project Decisions · 48 minProjects are, in many ways, a collection of decisions. But when work is moving fast, information is scattered, and the stakes are high, making a well-informed call isn’t always…
- What It Really Takes to Build AI for Government · 36 minGovernment projects are often dismissed as slow, bureaucratic, and overly reliant on expensive consultants. But according to William Moroz, that narrative is increasingly…
- Why Smart People Get Generic Results From AI · 50 minGenerative AI is changing how project teams work—but too many professionals are still treating it like a smarter search engine. The result? Generic prompts, generic outputs, and…
- Why 70% of Digital Transformations Still Fail (And How AI Can Help) · 50 minDigital transformation has been a business buzzword for decades—but despite years of experience, most enterprise transformation initiatives still fail. Why? And can AI finally…
- How the Construction Industry is Laying the Groundwork for the Future of AI PM · 43 minProject management in construction is often dismissed as traditional, but when it comes to AI and data, the industry may be further ahead than many people realize. In this…
- Where AI Actually Fits on a Project Team · 14 minAI is starting to reshape project management—but its biggest impact isn't replacing project managers. It's removing the operational overhead that keeps them buried in admin so…
- How AI-Native Teams Deliver Creative Work Differently · 43 minSome people see AI as a threat to creativity. Others see it as the next evolution of the creative toolkit. In this episode, Galen Low sits down with Tom Brown and Eric Oldrin…
- The Collaboration Problem Most Remote Teams Ignore · 56 minRemote and hybrid work is no longer a temporary adjustment—it’s how many project teams operate every day. But while we've become better at working asynchronously and using AI to…
