Governance library
Field notes and white papers on making portfolio choices, delivery commitments, and AI adoption more accountable, visible, and durable.
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Portfolio & delivery governance
16 field notesDecide what can move, what must wait, what is truly ready, and how expected value remains owned after approval.
A leader has a role the program can't afford to miss and a talent review list with three names. In one large manufacturer, managers with more to lose from a departure were more likely to rate their people's potential lower than performance suggested. Who rated each name?
AI operating governance
14 field notesConnect AI access, autonomy, evaluation, and investment to the workflow, evidence, oversight capacity, and human ownership that make reliance possible.
Zillow reported a 6.9 percent typical miss across 104 million homes not listed for sale. Its money sat in the homes whose owners said yes. A model's average accuracy does not tell you how it did on the cases you accept.
Work, adoption & judgment
7 field notesUse AI to improve judgment, reduce coordination burden, and strengthen evidence without eroding the people and operating knowledge the work depends on.
Ask people how much faster AI made them and they can give you a number. In a careful randomized trial that checked that number against a clock, it ran well ahead of the work. Judge the tool on what it delivered, measured against a baseline, and keep self-reported speed in a record of its own.
Related proof
The library explains the operating logic. The portfolio’s methods and workflow systems show how that logic becomes review paths, artifacts, and inspectable examples.