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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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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The Cheeky PM.  What If Your Schedule Could Argue Back Before the Field Even Knows There Is a Problem?

Jun 9, 2026

The Cheeky PM. What If Your Schedule Could Argue Back Before the Field Even Knows There Is a Problem?

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 standards nobody put on the project plan get found, explained in plain English, and turned into something you can actually use before the next compliance review catches you off guard.

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The Cheeky PM. Microsoft Is Ending Project Online. Here Is Your Escape Plan.

May 11, 2026

The Cheeky PM. Microsoft Is Ending Project Online. Here Is Your Escape Plan.

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 deadlines nobody put on the project plan get found, named, and turned into an actual strategy before September eats your data alive.

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The Cheeky PM. Barkley Sniffed Out Shadow AI in Our Project Stack and We Are Not Okay.

Apr 27, 2026

The Cheeky PM. Barkley Sniffed Out Shadow AI in Our Project Stack and We Are Not Okay.

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 quiet threats get sniffed out before they become very expensive surprises.

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The Cheeky PM. One Lobster Is Helpful. Five Are Actually Magic.

Apr 13, 2026

The Cheeky PM. One Lobster Is Helpful. Five Are Actually Magic.

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 single helpful Lobster quickly turns into a coordinated swarm and good ideas become smarter, smoother ways to run projects.

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The Cheeky PM. The Lobster Just Ate My To-Do List – And I Am Not Mad About It.

Mar 31, 2026

The Cheeky PM. The Lobster Just Ate My To-Do List – And I Am Not Mad About It.

Inside the Cheeky PM Lab, real metrics and real outcomes matter, but curiosity drives the experiments. With Ava the AI PM and her surprisingly perceptive Rough Collie Barkley guiding the work, this is where practical ideas quickly evolve into working prototypes and smarter ways to run projects.

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The Cheeky PM. GPT-5.4 Thinking Models for PMs: Agentic Workflows: Metrics Do Matter. Outcomes Matter More.

Mar 17, 2026

The Cheeky PM. GPT-5.4 Thinking Models for PMs: Agentic Workflows: Metrics Do Matter. Outcomes Matter More.

Welcome to the Cheeky PM Lab, where real metrics matter, real outcomes matter more, and wild curiosity runs the entire show!Ava the AI PM and her ridiculously perceptive Rough Collie sidekick, Barkley, are back in the lab turning half-baked ideas into battle-tested prototypes and way smarter ways to ship. (Yes, Barkley really does sniff out scope creep before it even shows up on the backlog.) Let’s keep those paws moving.

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The Cheeky PM. Ava and Barkley Navigating the AI Tool Ocean: Metrics Do Matter. Outcomes Matter More.

Feb 10, 2026

The Cheeky PM. Ava and Barkley Navigating the AI Tool Ocean: Metrics Do Matter. Outcomes Matter More.

Inside the Cheeky PM Lab, real metrics and real outcomes matter, but curiosity drives the experiments. With Ava the AI PM and her surprisingly perceptive Rough Collie Barkley guiding the work, this is where practical ideas quickly evolve into working prototypes and smarter ways to run projects.

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