This month’s video is intentionally less polished than the guide.
If you’ve spent time with the Accidental PM Starter Kit, you’ve seen the composed version of this work. The version where ideas are named clearly, patterns are laid out thoughtfully, and everything has enough space to make sense. That kind of structure matters, especially when you’re trying to get oriented in a role that rarely comes with a clean beginning.
But accidental project management rarely shows up in those conditions.
More often, it shows up in the middle of an already busy day, when Slack is active before you’ve had a chance to settle in, when meetings appear on your calendar that you didn’t help shape, and when you’re expected to bring clarity to work that already has momentum and history behind it. That’s the version of the job this video focuses on. Not an ideal day or a worst-case scenario, but a very normal one.
Rather than walking through the Starter Kit section by section, the video follows the rhythm of a typical accidental PM day and shows how this work actually plays out as conditions shift. The goal isn’t to demonstrate perfect execution. It’s to make the judgment calls visible—the ones that tend to happen quietly and without much recognition.