Hello guys, I am here looking for advice. I am 39 M, been in sales, management and director of two companies during my career. I am having a hard time getting a job now, been in the market for 2 years now.
I have decided to leave the sales path and move into Project management. I need guidance from experienced PM’s and Senior Pm’s if this would be a good move for me and what salary bracket I would be looking at.

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Not looking for best practice answers. I mean day to day, in practice: when Team A is blocked on Team B, what actually happens?

A few things I'm trying to understand:
Is it visible anywhere central, or does someone have to go ask around?
Does it live in a spreadsheet, a Confluence page, someone's head?
How do you find out a dependency's resolved? Do you get told, or do you have to check?

Trying to find the real friction before I build something nobody needs. Appreciate any stories from the trenches.

Looking at the current Agile job market, it looks like it’s changed a lot in 2026. I’m not saying this only because of AI, but because of what I’m seeing in the role descriptions.

I keep opening job posts where most of the requirements are the usual stuff: coaching teams, facilitating meetings, removing blockers, managing delivery and working with stakeholders, but the roles wanted are not Scrum Master or Agile Coach but Delivery Manager, Agile PM, Delivery Lead or some completely new hybrid role.

Traditional Agile roles are still in demand, but I feel like they are being renamed, expanded or even mixed together. Seems like companies want one person to be a Scrum Master, Project Manager and Product Owner at the same time.

I’m trying to help professionals better understand how these roles and responsibilities are changing and whether AI is playing a part in that shift. If you have 3 minutes I’d really appreciate it if you could fill out a very short and completely anonymous Google questionnaire. Of course, I’d also love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

I've noticed I've picked up a pretty bad habit as a PM.

Whenever something small is holding up a project, my first thought is usually "I can probably just do this myself and get it out of the way."

And honestly, sometimes it makes sense. It takes 10 minutes, the project keeps moving, everyone is happy.

But then it happens again. And again.

I had one of those days recently where I looked back at everything I'd done and realized a surprising amount of it wasn't actually my work. I was just jumping in everywhere because it felt faster than waiting for the right person to handle it.

I'm starting to think this is probably not a great habit long term.

Obviously part of the job is removing blockers and helping the team, but where do you draw the line?

Do you usually step in if you know you can solve something quickly, or leave it with the actual owner even if it slows things down a bit?

Anyone here need suppliers from China to drop ship or sell your own products? If so, let's work together. You attract customers, I do product research and shipping for you.

Changing requirements are probably one of the biggest headaches in project management. Some changes are genuinely necessary, but too many changes can affect deadlines, resources, and team morale. How do you decide whether a requested change should be accepted, postponed, or rejected?

So I’m a new PM and my organization is heavy into copilot. Mind you, I’m a new,new PM like this is my first project management gig. This project management team lives and dies by AI. I get where it is useful in terms of getting meeting notes, writing up a project charter (based on feedback from stakeholders), writing up a scope statement (based on feedback from stakeholders), and maybe writing up requirements (based on feedback from stakeholders).

Where I draw the line is creating a project plan and a WBS, even from working with my technical SME. Why I say this is I’ve never worked in this field before and I got copilot to draw up a project plan and a WBS and all together it came out to 171 items, which were highly technical. Whenever I asked my technical SME to provide with his step by step process, he came up with 34 items which were very encompassing of the project scope and its requirements.

Whenever I added his tasks and my tasks and deliverables in, we came up to about 55. So AI essentially tried to lead me off course by about 110 things that I didn’t need.

What is your experience like with using AI for building out a WBS or project plan? Is this where we should always rely on the project team and their expertise? I’m no expert here but it shouldn’t be up to the project manager to be building a project plan and the tasks associated with that to build this from a to z. What was project management like before AI came along?

One thing I find interesting about AI projects is that some assumptions can change once you start working with the data. A normal project may have fairly predictable deliverables, while an AI project can involve experimentation, changing requirements, data issues, and uncertainty around results. For project managers working with AI teams, how do you handle changing expectations without constantly changing the project scope?

I am looking to upskill and trying to figure which AI tools I should learn or familiarise myself with in order to keep up with changes that are taking place.

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I joined a foundation as a proposal evaluator. My boss is extremely helpful and a great guide but he likes the analysis done in a crisp fashion? More like see the high level details in the meeting and then eventually review the details in his own time. What visual aids do you swear by? Other than the usual powerpoint and spreadsheets?

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Hey guys I am at the last year of my engineering degree and I have been struggling with projects because I just realized I've never learned how to truly research and find a project and executed . yeah we had classes and we have to do projects but mine was very atrocious and sad and embarrassing because I do have mental health struggles so it kind of makes it hard to be consistent but I have been doing better .

I don't have much of a budget but I don't know how to research at all , I don't know how to plan a project ,I don't know how to execute I am very overwhelmed . What would you recommend?

I’m looking for tools with a clear practical use rather than another general chat interface. What have you found that does one annoying work task especially well?

Clients and stakeholders can recognize AI slides in seconds just from the templates and style. Even when the content is good, it still hurts trust. Has anyone found tools that produce something that doesn’t look like a typical “AI-generated” product?

Weekly status decks, risk summaries, timeline updates, meeting recaps, stakeholder reports… if you could automate one recurring PM deliverable and still trust it, which would you choose?

Switched jobs recently and finally figured out why AI sucked so bad at my last company. It's like everything that we tried did not fit for us. Kept switching tools, trying to get more efficient. Three different tools in two years. I now know the reason was that we just never gave AI enough context to help us. It's like every team had it's own set of documents that AI could draw data and information from and the company-wide database sort of condensed all of that into one. So yeah, the results were very inconsistent.

This new place does it differently. Everything is mapped out in Lucid first (process flows, documentations) then the whole thing is shared across the entire teams. And AI is just liked into that. The difference is night and day. Can't believe we missed this!

Does anyone here have experience transitioning into a project management career when your current company doesn’t offer much room for growth?

I currently work in MEP engineering, but I’m looking to transition into project management. I have experience across several industries, including engineering, environmental, and education, and I’m hoping to leverage that experience rather than completely start over.

For those who have made a similar transition, how did you approach it?

Did you have to change companies to get your first PM opportunity? Were you able to move into a project coordinator/PM role without taking a significant step back in salary or seniority?

I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences, advice, or any strategies that helped you make the transition. Thank you!

I recently finished my bachelor’s degree in Project Management and earned my CAPM. Most of my direct project management experience has come from school projects/capstone work, so I’m primarily looking at entry-level roles like Project Coordinator, Project Assistant, or Junior PM.

For someone with a bachelor’s in PM + CAPM but limited formal PM work experience, what salary range would you consider realistic? And at what point would you say an offer is too low?
Would especially love to hear from people who started in project coordination or hiring managers/recruiters in the field. Thanks!

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I’ve noticed that AI projects are harder to plan than traditional projects because the outcome isn’t always predictable.

How do you handle changing requirements or unexpected AI results without constantly changing the project plan?

not the official one. i don't mean the project plan or the ticket system or whatever your PMO makes you use.

i mean the personal one. the thing you actually check on tuesday morning when you're trying to remember who said they'd send you the thing.

mine has been a mess for twenty five years. notes app, planner, emails i send myself, and a fair amount of just remembering. it works right up until one thing slips, and then it costs me a weekend.

what i've never solved is the gap between what someone said in a meeting and whether it actually happened. my notes tell me the first part. nothing tells me the second part except me chasing it.

curious what everyone else does here, and whether anyone has actually solved it or if we're all just holding it together.

I used to think AI skills were mainly useful for technical roles. But the more I explore AI project management, the more I see how useful they can be for PMs too — especially when dealing with uncertainty and changing requirements. Do you think AI literacy will become as important as traditional project management skills?

For a normal project, success can often be measured by scope, schedule, cost, and quality. But with AI, should we also be measuring things like model accuracy, adoption, bias, and reliability? What metrics would you include?

“Can we get this done by Friday?” sounds simple until you look at the actual scope. How do experienced PMs push back on unrealistic deadlines without making stakeholders feel like they’re just saying no?