The next chapter, unlocked

Over the past couple of years, I put a lot of energy into something I genuinely believed in. I showed up consistently, wrote a ton, built ideas I had been sitting on for years, and started conversations with people who were clearly looking for something more honest about how project management actually works.

And it worked. People read and responded to the ideas. They told me my articles and instruction helped them think differently about their work, their teams, and their role in all of it. The signal was actually there, and it was stronger than I expected. Which is why this might come as a surprise:

Same Team Partners is done.

Not because the work didn’t resonate, but because not everyone involved was equally invested in continuing to build it. My former business partner decided to step away because it wasn’t serving him. And while the way it happened wasn’t how I would have handled it, it forced a level of clarity that I probably needed anyway.

The truth is, I don’t want to build something that depends on uneven commitment. I don’t want to carry something forward that requires shared energy when that energy isn’t actually shared. And I definitely don’t want to split my focus across multiple brands when, at the end of the day, the ideas about human-centered PM are mine.

Same Team included a mix of ideas and contributions, and I want to be clear about that. But over time, the work that people responded strongest to—the writing, the speaking, and the focus on human-centered project management—was mine. That’s not something new I discovered this year. It’s the throughline of my entire career.

I also want to be clear about something: these ideas were never confined to Same Team. They’ve always lived here, in my writing, in my book, in the talks I’ve given, and in the work I’ve done with teams over the years. Putting them into a separate brand was part of a continued experiment, but it also created distance from where this work has always belonged.

When everything shifted, my first instinct wasn’t to walk away from it. I was fully prepared to continue PM Squad on my own. But the reality of what it would take to separate and carry it forward became more complicated than it needed to be. And at a certain point, it stopped being about the work and started being about navigating unnecessary friction.

That’s not where I want to spend my energy.

What's next?

There are dozens of posts to migrate over here, along with ideas that still hold up and conversations that are far from finished. More importantly, there is a body of work that people consistently told me was useful, practical, and different from the usual noise in this space. That doesn’t go away just because a business structure does. So, I'm going to start adding my content to this site.

At the same time, I’m about 80% through rewriting Project Management for Humans. This isn’t a light update. It’s a second edition that reflects how I actually think now, after years of doing this work in real environments with real teams. It pulls together everything I’ve learned since the first version and pushes it further.

I’m also stepping back into the Digital PM Summit and working on programming again, which feels like returning to something I care deeply about and helped build in the first place. It’s an opportunity to shape conversations that reflect what this work really looks like today, not what we pretend it looks like in frameworks and certifications.

All of this points in the same direction: Project Management for Humans is not a side project for me. It's my work. It always has been.

This year, I’m focusing on it fully. I’m not interested in adding layers, managing unnecessary complexity, or trying to make something work that doesn’t have the right foundation underneath it. I’m interested in doing the work well, sharing it clearly, and building something that actually reflects how I think and how I operate.

Same Team proved that the ideas resonate. It also made it very clear what I don’t want to carry forward.

I finally feel like I have autonomy and direction again. That said, I'm still planning my approach. You'll hear more on that after I've had time to take a break, enjoy vacation with my family, and come back refreshed and ready to get back to it.

If you’ve been following along, reading the work, or quietly taking something from it, I’d genuinely like to hear from you. What are you dealing with right now in your projects or your team? What feels stuck, unclear, or harder than it should be? Send me a note or leave a comment. Maybe I'll use that to shape what I write next. Or, maybe we'll use it as a way to connect. That matters just as much to me, because I’m not done with this work. Not even close.

I’m not starting over. I’m starting cleaner.

T L ; D R - Same Team Partners is done, but the work behind it isn’t. I’m focusing fully on project management for humans and building what comes next on my own terms.