Plans for 2025: AI Governance and Scale

Every year-end, I set intentional goals for the year ahead. Not resolutions. Goals with concrete milestones and a reason behind each one.

Here is what I am planning for 2025.

AI Governance Depth

In 2024, I developed a working understanding of AI governance — the EU AI Act, responsible AI practices, enterprise adoption guardrails. In 2025, I want to go deeper. The ISO/IEC 42001 standard for AI management systems is on my radar. Becoming a certified lead auditor for AI management systems would position me to help organizations build governance frameworks, not just comply with them.

AI is becoming embedded in every enterprise product I manage. The PM who understands both the delivery side and the governance side will be uniquely valuable. That is where I am headed.

Operational Scale

I went from managing one team to three accounts with 40+ people in under two years. The playbooks and frameworks I built in 2024 made that possible. In 2025, I want to systematize further. Every repeatable process — onboarding a new account, setting up governance structures, establishing team rituals — should have a documented playbook that someone else could follow.

The goal is not just personal productivity. It is building systems that work without me being the bottleneck.

Technical Depth Where It Matters

I am not going to become a full-stack developer. But I am going to continue investing in technical literacy that makes me a better PM. Performance testing with k6, understanding caching architectures, reading deployment manifests — these are the skills that earn engineering trust.

In 2025, I want to get comfortable with infrastructure-as-code concepts and observability tooling. Not to operate them, but to participate meaningfully in architecture conversations.

The Through-Line

Everything I am investing in serves one thesis: the future of program management is technical, AI-literate, and governance-aware. The PMs who develop in all three dimensions will lead the most complex and impactful programs. That is the career I am building.