What Comes Next? LLC · Evolutions
Twenty years of running technology programs, turned on one person at a time. I built the method, I’m testing it in the field, and I’ll come talk to your team about it — and about what AI is doing to project work.
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The methodology
Health practitioners do not do project management. Project managers are not known for being healthy and fit. The intersection is nearly empty.
Evolutions is twenty years of portfolio-scale program discipline — 500+ application migrations, 4,600+ data-source integrations, a $2M statewide modernization delivered 14% under budget — pointed at a single person instead of an enterprise. Not a metaphor. The same constructs, renamed.
| Evolutions | Project management |
|---|---|
| Transformation | Program-level objective |
| Evolution | A fixed-length sprint — currently seven days |
| Sword Sharpening (S3) | Sprint planning |
| Look Back | Retrospective |
| Pick 3 of 5 | Scope negotiation against capacity |
| Friction budget | Resource constraint — ~20 min/day |
| Coach’s Note | Stakeholder communication |
It is currently under test. Six Week Success Story is a six-week minimal-risk field experiment under Drexel University IRB review — the evidence base for the dissertation behind this methodology. Read about the study →
The habit mapper that feeds it is The Spark, and it stays free — the mobile app runs the same seven-day cycle.
Speaking & consulting
Two talks, one consultation, and a record behind both. Virtual now; in person anywhere from January 2027.
For PMOs, PMI chapters, and project leadership
In 2024 I told PMI Great Lakes that the PMO should be the tip of the spear for AI in the organization, because a good PMO knows where the wins are and where the work is. Two years later, AI is reshaping project organizations whether or not the PMO leads it.
This is the follow-up: where AI earns its keep in project delivery, where it doesn’t, and what a PMO that intends to still exist in 2028 does next.
For teams, employee groups, wellness programs, and classrooms
Twenty years of program discipline, pointed at one person: fixed-length sprints, a weekly look back at what happened against what you said would happen, and scope negotiated against the twenty minutes a day you actually have.
Where the method came from, how it runs week to week, and what the field study behind it is testing.
Consulting: AI adoption for PMOs and project teams — where AI earns its keep, where it doesn’t, and why the PMO should lead it.
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Fees on inquiry. Previously: PMI Great Lakes Chapter (Professional Development Day, October 2024; chapter meeting, May 2024) · Project Management Innovation Conference, Harrisburg University (May 2024) · PMI Washington DC Chapter (2014) · Growing Leaders Detroit (2024) · Life Time Work Ardmore (2026) · graduate entrepreneurship, Harrisburg University (2025–2026). Full CV →
About
Doctoral researcher studying how AI-personalized feedback changes habit formation — on a system he built, and ran on himself first.
DBA candidate at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. Before that, twenty years of portfolio-scale technical program management at General Motors, Ford, Amazon, and the State of Michigan, and federal compliance work at Booz Allen, Oracle, and Deloitte.
What Comes Next? was built out of a practice that already existed — daily progress files, weekly planning sessions, retrospectives — kept for years before there was a company. The personal practice and the platform converged on the same structure because the same person built both.
Available for speaking, guest lectures, adjunct appointments, and academic collaboration. Full CV → · Book a conversation → · Personally →
Support
No pitch, no round, no equity. If the work is useful to you and you want to put something behind it, this is the door.
The research is real, the system is live, and the study is running. What Comes Next is either going to work or it isn’t — the only way to find out is to finish building it. Everything here is free to use; nothing behind this section is gated.
This is not an equity offering. Contributions are gifts in support of independent research and product development. No ownership stake. No expected return. Just helping something real get built and published. Payments are handled by Stripe — nothing about them touches this site.
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Contact
Organizers, researchers, institutions, people looking for coaching, and the occasional investor. All welcome.