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May 25, 2026

mcp · claude

How PMOs Can Automate Tasks With Claude Using pmo.run's MCP Server

pmo.run's MCP server brings four classic PMI tools — PERT, EVM, TCO, and Monte Carlo schedule — to Claude. A worked example with insight tags.
May 23, 2026

team-cognition · transactive-memory

The Hidden Tax on Every Status Report

Your team spends its weeks writing reports and sitting in status meetings — and somehow understands the project less, not more. That is not a discipline problem. It is a team-cognition problem, and decades of research points to the fix.
May 4, 2026

monte-carlo · dirichlet

Turn What Your Team Already Knows Into a Smarter Forecast

Your team has years of delivery data. Your schedule forecast ignores all of it. Drift correction changes that — feeding past performance back into the model so your next forecast is sharper than the last.
Apr 24, 2026

pmo · pert

The Layered Mandate: Why PMOs That Only Add Never Subtract

A 16-year longitudinal study names what PMO practitioners already feel: responsibilities accumulate but never retire. An international look at the trap — and the subtraction mechanism most PMOs lack.
Apr 15, 2026

monte-carlo · pert

Your Estimate Is a Dot. Here's the Shape It's Hiding.

PERT gives you a number. Monte Carlo gives you the probability you'll actually hit it. A worked example showing why the difference matters.
Mar 25, 2026

cognition-as-code · nfd

Cognition as Code: Co-Evolving with AI Agents

Most organisations add AI to linear processes. A different approach: co-evolve with AI through a crystallisation cycle that turns tacit expertise into executable code. The moat isn't the code — it's the process that produces it.
Mar 24, 2026

bayesian · estimation

Why LLMs Can't Learn from Your Estimation Errors

LLMs plateau after a single observation when updating beliefs. For PMOs that need to learn from estimation history, you need deterministic Bayesian maths underneath — not just chat.
Mar 11, 2026

tco · sier

Outsource vs In-House: The Costs Nobody Calculates

A TCO comparison of outsourced vs in-house development using real unit economics and field data on schedule overruns, tool fragmentation, and decision latency.
Feb 22, 2026

pert · estimation

Why Your Project Estimates Are Always Wrong

PERT has been around since the 1950s. It's still not enough. Here's what's missing — and the maths to fix it.
Feb 11, 2026

tco · procurement

Cheap vs Inexpensive: Why TCO Changes the Conversation

A $200 printer and a $600 printer walk into an office. Five years later, only one was actually inexpensive.