#118 - Your Project Management Is Broken — Linear Fixes It

About this episode

Malcolm discusses the obsolescence of traditional project management roles due to AI and highlights Linear as a leading tool for project execution.

If your projects last longer than a few days, then you already know the problem: action items everywhere, people joining and leaving, updates getting lost, and nobody really having a clean overview of what is going on. In this episode, Malcolm makes a very direct argument: the traditional role of the project manager — or Scrum Master in software teams — is becoming obsolete. Not because project management no longer matters, but because AI plus agent-native tooling can now do a huge part of it better, faster, and with far more consistency than humans can. The center of this episode is Linear — the project management tool Malcolm believes is currently the strongest option for AI-native project execution. Malcolm explains this through a real example: a complex EU-funded delivery made up of eight sub-projects, all running on a brutal deadline. In the past, that level of complexity would have triggered panic and a call to hire a dedicated project manager. Now, the work is coordinated through AI agents writing directly into Linear, while Malcolm can query the entire state of the project from his phone, generate Gantt charts, build dashboards, and even send updates while sitting in a…

People in this episode

Host: Malcolm Werchota

Topics covered

• project management
• AI tools
• agent-native tooling
• hypervisibility
• leadership
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• project management
• AI
• Linear
• Scrum Master
• hypervisibility
• agent-native tooling
• Gantt charts
• dashboards

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: EU, Scrum

Products: Linear

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