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If you served in the military, you didn’t “switch careers” into project management — you translated it.
In this first military-themed episode of Project Management Is Boring, we break down why so many veterans already have the core PM skills long before they ever open a PMBOK or sit for a certification exam.
Mission planning. Risk management. Stakeholder coordination. Working with incomplete information under pressure.
That’s project management — just without the corporate vocabulary.
This episode is for veterans who feel like outsiders in tech and business, and for PMs who don’t realize how transferable military leadership really is.
You were already doing the job. Now it just has a different name
By Jordon KeenIf you served in the military, you didn’t “switch careers” into project management — you translated it.
In this first military-themed episode of Project Management Is Boring, we break down why so many veterans already have the core PM skills long before they ever open a PMBOK or sit for a certification exam.
Mission planning. Risk management. Stakeholder coordination. Working with incomplete information under pressure.
That’s project management — just without the corporate vocabulary.
This episode is for veterans who feel like outsiders in tech and business, and for PMs who don’t realize how transferable military leadership really is.
You were already doing the job. Now it just has a different name