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Project Management is Boring

Project Management is Boring

By: Jordon Keen
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Project Management Is Boring focuses on the unglamorous work that actually makes projects succeed. We talk planning, requirements, meetings, stakeholder management, and execution—without pretending PMs are superheroes or that every problem can be solved with a new framework. Built for IT project managers, business analysts and professionals who value discipline, clarity and realism over buzzwords.

Jordon Keen
Economics
Episodes
  • Target Canada — The Launch That Outran Reality
    Jun 2 2026

    This opening episode introduces the Target Canada case, the major causes behind the failure, and the core themes of the season. It explains why this case matters to project managers: it was a major strategic initiative with compressed timelines, technology implementation challenges, data quality problems, supply chain breakdowns, weak readiness signals, and customer expectation gaps.

    The episode frames Target Canada as a project system, not merely a retail failure. It introduces the central idea of the season: the launch date became more real than operating reality.

    Key PM Questions:

    What assumptions were treated as facts? Where did urgency begin to overpower readiness? How should PMs listen for weak signals before failure becomes visible?

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    31 mins
  • PMIB Season 3 Trailer: Target Canada
    Apr 30 2026

    The trailer introducing Season 3 of the Project Management is Boring podcast - Target Canada

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    2 mins
  • The Anti-Knight Framework
    Apr 28 2026

    We’ve spent this season studying one of the most expensive operational failures in modern markets.

    Knight Capital lost approximately $440 million in about forty-five minutes.

    That headline is dramatic.

    But the deeper lesson was never the dollar amount.

    It was the structure.

    Or more accurately—

    the absence of it.

    Because Knight Capital did not fail from one mistake.

    It failed from multiple weaknesses interacting inside a high-speed system.

    A flawed deployment.

    Legacy logic still alive.

    Unclear escalation.

    Delayed containment.

    Insufficient safeguards.

    Governance that did not match velocity.

    And that’s why this final episode matters.

    Because the real goal of this season was never to simply point at Knight and say:

    “They got it wrong.”

    That’s easy.

    The real goal was to ask a better question:

    What does right look like?

    What is the boring architecture that protects high-speed systems?

    What operating model helps organizations move quickly without becoming fragile?

    What structures allow leaders to scale speed without scaling chaos?

    Today we assemble everything.

    Not blame.

    Doctrine.

    Not hindsight.

    Design.

    This is the Anti-Knight Framework.

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    19 mins
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