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Editor's note
Insights is a field journal on PMO setup, enterprise digital transformation, and embedding generative AI into programme delivery. It is written for the people doing the work: the programme managers, BAs, and engineering leads holding the rituals together. Not for the industry around them.
I am Varun Vashisht. Fourteen years across enterprise PMO, business analysis, and embedded AI delivery. PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA. Currently building the AI-tooling layer inside a mid-market enterprise's programme office, previously across financial services, healthcare COB, and large-scale ETL.
Every essay here is rooted in something I ran, ran into, or quietly dismantled. New dispatches land monthly-ish, when there is something real to say. Half of what gets published was sharpened by a reader writing back, which is what the Salon is for.
The future is a negative waiting for the right chemicals.
The darkroom colophon
- Development stack
- Astro static build · Cloudflare Pages · Workers AI · D1 / KV
- Typography
- Playfair Display (display) · EB Garamond (body) · Space Mono (folios)
- Publishing cadence
- Monthly-ish · only when there is something real to say
- Editorial bias
- Field-tested over theoretical · practitioners over the industry
- Image system
- One B&W film library · a plate per dispatch, no per-post art
- Privacy
- No tracking pixels · no third-party analytics · no newsletter trackers
- Voice
- British English · short sentences · no filler
- CMS
- Sveltia on a GitHub backend · editable at /blog/admin/
Dispatch timeline
- №001 Building a PMO that engineering actually wants to work with
- №002 Where Generative AI quietly pays off inside a PMO
- №003 The meeting that could have been a paragraph.
- №004 What the junior PM noticed that the rest of us missed.
- №005 Two PMOs I have been, and the one I will not be again.
- №006 The status update that said nothing. A small autopsy.
- №007 Who's quietly cancelling their AI subscriptions?
- №008 The four AI tools that actually stuck. A six-month receipt.
- №009 The Mindset Tech PMs Need Right Now (Hint: It's Not What You Think)
- №010 Which model, when. And do we really need Fable?
- №011 The most expensive way to sound like everyone else.
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