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AI in Project Management: Useful, Imperfect, and Costly

AI is showing up everywhere in project management — in Asana, Monday, Notion, and Outlook just to name a few. So I decided to have an honest conversation about what …it actually looks like in my day-to-day work as a senior PM.

In this video I cover four things:

▶ Where AI genuinely saves me time as a project manager
▶ Why the output is never the finished product
▶ Why I verify every single AI-generated task and summary — every one
▶ What it’s actually costing all of us beyond the subscription fee

That last one gets a bit uncomfortable. Most conversations about AI skip this part entirely. Here’s what the data says:

• Global data centers consumed 448 trillion watt-hours of electricity in 2025 — more than all but 10 countries on Earth
• That power generated roughly 208 million tons of CO₂ — the same footprint as the entire nation of Argentina
• Water consumption tied to AI alone is projected to hit 9.3 trillion liters by 2030, enough to cover the annual domestic water needs of 1.3 billion people
• E-waste from AI hardware is projected to reach 2.5 million metric tons by the end of this decade — the equivalent of discarding 250 Eiffel Towers every year
• And it’s already showing up in the price of your phone, your tablet, and your laptop

The UN found that cutting query length by 30% reduces AI energy use by 25%. How you use this tool actually matters.

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⚠️ DISCLAIMER
As stated in the video, I do use AI. For this video, I used Gemini for the thumbnail and to create elements I could not find stock video for, including the “AI is Everywhere” clip at 0:04 and the “Train Crash” clip at 6:53.

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📌 CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
01:14 Part 1 — Where AI Earns Its Keep
05:13 Part 2 — AI as Aggregator, Not Author
06:00 Part 3 — Where AI Falls Short
09:01 Part 4 — Using AI Without Losing Yourself
13:46 Close

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Are you using AI in your project work? What tool, and what for? And have you ever caught it giving you something wrong? I want to hear about it.

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References:
• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/energy-water-use-and-pollution-of-ai-and-data-centers-rival-most-countries
• https://earth.org/9-3-trillion-liters-of-water-un-report-exposes-unfathomable-footprint-of-data-centers-as-ai-booms/
• https://www.open.cx/blog/ai-hallucination-examples
• https://www.envive.ai/post/case-study-of-air-canadas-chatbot
• https://quidget.ai/blog/ai-automation/what-happens-when-your-chatbot-cant-help-how-smart-escalation-works/

Attributions:
• Stressed Woman Video by Kampus Production: https://www.pexels.com/video/stress-woman-sitting-while-looking-at-her-laptop-8631882/
• Air Canada Video by Maple Waves CA: https://www.pexels.com/video/air-canada-check-in-area-at-airport-terminal-37228462/
• Wallet Video by Jakub Zerdzicki: https://www.pexels.com/video/counting-polish-banknotes-in-wallet-34596707/
• Woman Plugged In Video by cottonbro studio: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-woman-typing-on-a-keyboard-while-wearing-a-vr-headset-8721926/

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AI in Project Management: Useful, Imperfect, and Costly

AI is showing up everywhere in project management — in Asana, Monday, …

SAFe Framework Explained: Scaling Agile Across Your Entire Organization

Most SAFe implementations don’t fail because people didn’t understand …

Agile Works for One Team. What Happens When You Have Ten?

Agile works brilliantly for one team. But the moment you need ten …

Agile works brilliantly for one team. But the moment you need ten teams or more all delivering parts of the same product, everything breaks down. SAFe Framework Explained: Scaling Agile …Across Your Entire Organization is exactly what this series is about.

This is Part 1 of a two-part series on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) – one of the most widely adopted enterprise Agile frameworks in the world, used by Boeing, Cisco, AT&T, and Lego. In this video, we start from the beginning: what SAFe is, why large organizations need it, and what it actually looks like in practice. No jargon dumps. No certification prep. Just a clear, grounded introduction for project managers, program managers, and PMO leaders who need to understand what SAFe is and why it matters.

I’m using a real-world example throughout – scaling Agile at a university – because higher education is one of the most complex organizational environments there is. If SAFe applies there, it applies anywhere.

▬ WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

✔ Why standard Agile breaks down when you scale it beyond one team
✔ What the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) actually is — in plain language
✔ Why universities and other large institutions need a scaling framework
✔ What an Agile Release Train (ART) is and how it works
✔ What the SAFe planning rhythm looks like in practice
✔ Three things you can do this week — no SAFe transformation required

▬ THIS IS PART 1 OF 2 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

Part 1 (this video) covers the what and the why — a clear introduction to SAFe for anyone who’s new to it.

Part 2 will go inside the mechanics: the Agile Release Train roles in depth, what really happens in PI Planning, how work flows from strategy to sprint, and how to actually get started.

▬ WHO THIS IS FOR ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

This video is for you if you’re a:
→ Project Manager or Senior PM trying to understand SAFe before your organization adopts it
→ Program Manager or PMO Director evaluating Agile scaling frameworks
→ IT leader, department head, or executive at a university or large institution
→ Anyone who has ever wondered why Agile stops working when you scale it

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*Clip of air traffic controller generated by Gemini
*Music by me: https://soundcloud.com/chrisjbarton
*Website: http://yourprojectpro.com/

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