All posts by Luis
How to Make Delivery Count: Turning Status Reports Into Action
Delivery is at the heart of every project. Each week, teams gather to review what’s been accomplished, what’s coming next, and where risks are emerging. Most organizations formalize this into status reports — often complete with color-coded indicators for scope, schedule, budget, and risk. On the surface, this appears to be good practice. A disciplined…
When Project Management and Product Management Collide
I started my project management career delivering service improvements. Those projects focus on process improvement, data analytics, and the implementation of a new technology. The last several years have been different, I have delivered PRODUCTS. The nature of those have been applications developed on a platform (e.g. SAP, Salesforce, Palantir Foundry). I wrote an article…
Delivering Enterprise Case Management with ML and Data Integration
Building an ML-enabled case management platform by integrating Palantir Foundry with Salesforce. This post explains the phased delivery approach, how we overcame data-pipeline and integration constraints, and what shipped (case clustering, priority labeling, automated write-backs). Key lessons: process flexibility, fixing foundational issues early, and relentless communication to drive enterprise-grade outcomes.
Project Management and Product Management: Complementary, Not Competing Roles
Project Management and Product Management are often seen as separate disciplines — one focused on execution, the other on vision. In reality, they overlap in critical ways. Drawing on decades of experience, this post explores how combining both perspectives creates stronger outcomes than treating them as competing roles.