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Most Recent Cheeky Lab Briefs

Aug 24, 2026

The Cheeky PM. Your Growth Plan Had a Single Point of Failure. LinkedIn Just Found It.

Inside the Cheeky PM Lab, real metrics and real outcomes matter, but curiosity drives every experiment. This week Ava audits the platform most of us stopped watching closely, and Barkley discovers the loophole he has been happily exploiting for a year just got patched. If you have ever typed "link in the first comment," this one is for you.

Aug 17, 2026

The Cheeky PM. AI Is Eating Project Controls Consulting. Here Is When to Feed It and When to Pull It Back.

Inside the Cheeky PM Lab, real metrics and real outcomes matter, but curiosity drives every experiment. With Ava, our practical PM in a lab coat, and her surprisingly perceptive Rough Collie Barkley running signal detection, this week we chase the loudest story in the industry: a services giant just paid a reported $390 million for an AI engineer, while the people actually building AI agents are quietly warning that most of that spend is wasted. Both are true. Here is how a working practitioner tells the difference.

Aug 3, 2026

The Cheeky PM. Only 2% of Owners Trust the Schedule. Here Is the 20-Minute Check That Earns It Back.

Inside the Cheeky PM Lab, real metrics and real outcomes matter, but curiosity drives every experiment. With Ava, our practical PM in a lab coat, and her surprisingly perceptive Rough Collie Barkley guiding the work, this week we run a diagnostic on the one asset every project produces and almost nobody believes: the schedule.

Jul 20, 2026

The Cheeky PM. Three Seats at the Bench. The Lean AI Stack That Actually Earns Its Keep.

Inside the Cheeky PM Lab, real metrics and real outcomes matter, but curiosity drives every experiment. With Ava, our practical PM in a lab coat, and her surprisingly perceptive Rough Collie Barkley guiding the work, this week we deliver on last issue's promise. The audit is done, the freeloaders are gone, and what is left on the bench are the tools that genuinely earn their keep for a project controls professional.

Jul 6, 2026

The Cheeky PM. You Remember the Wins. You Forget the Two Hours You Lost Getting Them.

Inside the Cheeky PM Lab, real metrics and real outcomes matter, but curiosity drives every experiment. With Ava, our practical PM in a lab coat, and her surprisingly perceptive Rough Collie Barkley guiding the work and his loud chicken, this week we are running the one experiment nobody wants to run on themselves. Is all this AI actually saving us time, or does it just feel that way?

Jun 29, 2026

The Cheeky PM. Five Commands That Turn Your Lobster Swarm Into a Daily Superpower.

Inside the Cheeky PM Lab, real metrics and real outcomes matter, but curiosity drives every experiment. With Ava, our practical PM in a lab coat, and her surprisingly perceptive Rough Collie Barkley guiding the work, this is where a basic swarm stops fetching and starts running half your week before you finish your first coffee.

Jun 22, 2026

The Cheeky PM. McKinsey Just Bet Big on AI Scheduling. Here Is What That Actually Means for You.

Inside the Cheeky PM Lab, real metrics and real outcomes matter, but curiosity drives every experiment. With Ava, our practical PM in a lab coat, and her surprisingly perceptive Rough Collie Barkley guiding the work, this is where the hype gets separated from the signal before your team adopts the wrong half of either one.

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