If you have ever been handed a project the way someone hands you a box of tangled cables and says "sort this out" — this book is for you.
The Accidental Project Manager is Book 01 in the PM & Supply Chain series. It teaches ops managers, team leads, and accidental PMs how to deliver projects on time and cut project waste by 11.4% — using AI-powered workflows, no PMP required.
What's inside the book
8 core frameworks you can implement this week. 24 AI prompts organized by chapter. 6 real-world scenarios across industries and roles. 1 daily system you can start in 15 minutes.
The 15-Minute Daily Sprint Framework (Chapter 2)
The actual cause of most project failures is the absence of a daily operating system. Research from the Project Management Institute: organizations lose an average of 11.4% of every dollar invested in projects to poor performance. On a $50,000 project, that is $5,700. The good news: this specific type of waste is almost entirely preventable. Not with a certification. With fifteen minutes a day.
The sprint framework has three components — Plan (3 priorities with done criteria), Risk Flag (one named risk before it costs anything), and Update (a 3-line stakeholder message sent before anyone asks). Done consistently every morning, it eliminates the rework loop.
The Scope Lock Workbook (Chapter 3)
Scope creep is the most common cause of project failure. It is also the most preventable. It does not happen because stakeholders are unreasonable. It happens because the boundaries of the project were never written down, agreed upon, and signed off before work began.
The scope lock document answers six questions before a single task starts: project objective, deliverables, what is explicitly out of scope, change request process, key milestones, and stakeholder sign-off.
8 AI Workflows (Chapter 5)
Eight Claude prompts that automate the administrative tasks that consume the most time — meeting summaries, weekly status reports, risk register updates, stakeholder emails, change requests, onboarding briefs, escalation emails, and lessons learned. Used consistently, these prompts recover 8–12 hours per week.
The 3-Step Recovery Plan (Chapter 7)
A derailed project is not a failed project. A failed project is one where nobody attempted recovery. The recovery framework — Stop, Diagnose, Rebuild — can be initiated and produce a clear action plan within 48 hours on most projects.
What you get with the book
Along with the full 8-chapter book, you get access to 5 free interactive tools:
→ 15-Minute Daily Sprint Calculator → Project Charter & Scope Lock Workbook → Weekly Progress Dashboard → Project Recovery Checklist (15 interactive steps) → AI Prompt Library — all 24 commands organized by chapter
All tools are browser-based, interactive, and free with the book.
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