AI for Project Managers: Adoption, Governance, and Accountability in AI-Assisted Delivery (The Project Management Practitioner Series) - Softcover

Kirk PMP, Keegan

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798174306226

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

The shelf is full of books about what AI can do. This one is about who answers when it is wrong.

Artificial intelligence has arrived in project delivery faster than the governance around it. Registers are generated in seconds. Status reports assemble themselves. Estimates arrive already formatted. And the person who signs the deliverable still owns every word in it.

AI for Project Managers is written for practitioners who are accountable for work that AI has touched — project and program managers, portfolio leads, PMO directors, and the technical and commercial managers whose signature covers work drafted by somebody else. It assumes you already know how projects work, and that your organization is already using these tools, whether or not it has decided to.

This is not a prompt collection, not a tool review, and not exam preparation. Tools are named as rarely as possible, because anything written today about what a model can do will be wrong within a year. The governance questions will not be.

What you will take away

• Five failure signatures that follow from how these systems work rather than from what current ones get wrong — so you can assess a use you have never seen, on a tool that did not exist when this was written


• Why verification does not compose, and how an organization can review conscientiously at every stage and still put an unsupportable statement in front of a board


• Graduated autonomy calibrated to consequence rather than capability, with a five-rung ladder and the reversal-window rule that invalidates most agent deployments


• What must be logged, what must be disclosed, and when — including why the incidents that end careers are disclosure failures rather than accuracy failures


• Supplier and subcontractor AI use: the gap between what you have warranted to your client and what your subcontracts actually require


• What to do in the first hour, when a defect has already reached a client

Built to be used

Fourteen ready-to-use templates, collected in the appendix. A 30-day starting plan. Nine diagrams. Practical exercises designed for a live engagement rather than a classroom. Seventy-three review questions with worked answers, and a full glossary.

Written by a credentialed practitioner working in enterprise project and portfolio management, building governance frameworks across technology, construction, and infrastructure portfolios.

Book Two of the Project Management Mastery series. It stands alone — you do not need Book One to read it.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798174306226
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 143