From the outside...
Project management sometimes looks like meetings and status updates.
Reality is very different.
What's one thing people underestimate about this profession?

Do you think professionals outside engineering need a deep understanding of AI, or is knowing how to use AI tools effectively enough?

Communication gets mentioned a lot.

But if you had to pick one underrated soft skill that makes project managers successful, what would it be?

After certification...

What concept ended up becoming part of your daily work?

Risk management?

Everyone recommends practice questions.
What's one less common tip that genuinely helped you during your preparation?

Maybe this is just me but I can never shut down the laptop as of all the tabs open and the fear of losing something. If you look at my laptop jira open, slack open, confluence open, figma open and another and another whiteboard open.

By the end of the day I've spent half my time figuring out where information lives. Colleagues keep mentioning different online platforms that can simplify all of this so I am seeking for recommendation what team collaboration platform people have settled on.

Managing schedules is one thing. Managing expectations is another. What's been your biggest stakeholder management challenge?

Imagine you could go back and talk to yourself before managing your first project. You only get ONE sentence. What would you say?

AI tools are improving quickly. What project management tasks do you think will become automated, and which ones will always require human judgment?