The Digital Project Manager
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.
Episodes
268 episodes
How to Manage Stakeholder Expectations Around AI Search
AI 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 fundamentals: knowing who your brand is for, publishing clear fir...
What Will Project Leaders Stop Doing Because of AI?
AI’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, Projectworks CEO Mark Orttung explores how AI can take on the neglected ...
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How to Give Leaders Visibility Into Strategic Initiatives Without More Reporting
Strategic 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, Slack, spreadsheets, meetings, and everything in between. By the tim...
How Change-Ready Organizations Turn Strategy Into Action
Change is no longer something organizations can neatly package into a transformation initiative. It’s constant—and the real challenge is keeping strategy, decisions, and execution connected while everything around the organization keeps moving....
How to Create Decision Clarity During AI Transformation
AI 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 much harder to leave implicit.In this episode, Galen Low tal...
What to Do When You Outgrow Your Project Manager Title
For 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, and increasingly blurry career paths, figuring out what comes nex...
Why AI Efficiency Doesn’t Have to Mean Cutting Headcount
When 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 cost—they’re a big part of what clients are paying for. Cut too de...
How to Work With a Founder Who Keeps Changing Direction
Founders are wired to look ahead: spotting opportunities, chasing possibilities, and imagining what the business could become. Project and operations people tend to live closer to today, turning those ideas into something teams can actually del...
How to Build Real AI Fluency Across Your Team
AI 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 human judgment still matters most. Justin Bateh joins Galen Low to...
How AI Can Help You Make Better Project Decisions
Projects 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 straightforward. AI can pull together more context than any one per...
What It Really Takes to Build AI for Government
Government projects are often dismissed as slow, bureaucratic, and overly reliant on expensive consultants. But according to William Moroz, that narrative is increasingly outdated. Drawing on experience across both government and consulting, Wi...
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Why Smart People Get Generic Results From AI
Generative 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 a growing tendency to trust polished responses without applying th...
Why 70% of Digital Transformations Still Fail (And How AI Can Help)
Digital transformation has been a business buzzword for decades—but despite years of experience, most enterprise transformation initiatives still fail. Why? And can AI finally help organizations break the cycle?In this episode, Galen Low...
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How the Construction Industry is Laying the Groundwork for the Future of AI PM
Project 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 conversation, James Garner, Head of AI and Data at Gleeds and founder of...
Where AI Actually Fits on a Project Team
AI 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 they can focus on the work that actually moves projects and client r...
How AI-Native Teams Deliver Creative Work Differently
Some 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, co-founders of Original Model, an AI-native creative agency, to expl...
The Collaboration Problem Most Remote Teams Ignore
Remote 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 boost productivity, it's worth asking whether we've unintentionall...
Why Project Management Is Becoming Everyone’s Job
Project management often gets framed as a career path, but increasingly it's becoming a skill that professionals across every function need to develop. As organizations navigate AI-driven transformation, cross-functional initiatives, and consta...
I’m Building A Digital PM AI Agent Whether I Like It Or Not
AI is forcing every function to reevaluate what creates value—and project management is no exception. In this conversation, Alla Tarasenko, Principal Technical Program Manager at Gusto, shares why building AI agents isn't about replacing progra...
Why Public Speaking Is Becoming a Career Multiplier for Project Leaders
Public speaking is often framed as a stage skill—but for project leaders, it’s really a leadership skill. In this episode, Galen Low sits down with fractional PM, consultant, and award-winning Toastmaster Megan Cotterman to explore how communic...
Why More Marketing Teams Are Choosing Boutique Agencies in 2026
In a marketing landscape shaped by lean teams, rising expectations, and an ever-expanding stack of AI tools, many leaders are asking the same question: do agencies still have a role to play? In this episode, Galen Low sits down with Tammy Valen...
Why AI Conversations Feel Fake (And How To Fix That)
What happens when AI stops being a tool you type into and starts becoming something you talk to? In this episode, Galen Low sits down with Oliver Shoulson, Agent Design and Engineering Lead at PolyAI, to unpack the surprisingly human problem at...
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No One Cares About Your Deck – Here's Why
Slide decks aren’t going away. Despite years of corporate eye-rolls, overloaded bullet points, and “this could’ve been an email” energy, presentations still sit at the center of how organizations align people around ideas. And now AI is crashin...
You Don’t Need a New AI PM Tool—You Need to Fix the One You Have
AI-powered PM tools promise everything from predictive risk alerts to automated status reports—but what happens when the tool you picked doesn’t actually deliver on the features that sold you in the first place?In this episode, Galen Low...
How To Build In-Demand Skills At The Speed Of AI Disruption
The pace of change in today’s workforce isn’t just fast—it’s compounding. In this episode, Galen sits down with higher education leaders Sasha Thackaberry-Voinovich and Charlotte Bencaz to unpack what it actually takes to stay relevant when rol...
