There are moments in a program management career where the numbers stop being abstract and start being very, very real. […]

Here’s a situation I’ve been in more times than I can count. An engineering team surfaces a legitimate, serious risk.

M&A integration is one of the most reliably underestimated programs in enterprise IT. The deal gets announced. The press release

Enterprise programs rarely fail because of lack of effort. They fail because dependencies were misunderstood, assumed, or surfaced too late

Enterprise cutovers rarely fail because of a single technical error. They fail because risk accumulates quietly — in untested rollback

Let me tell you how most people describe my job when they hear the title. “Oh, so you run meetings