Project Management
Agentic AI Is Creating a New PMO Mandate
Recent coverage shows a clear pattern: organizations are moving quickly from AI experimentation into agentic AI, where systems can plan, act, use tools, and operate across workflows. That creates a different governance problem than traditional software or basic generative AI. TechRadar recently reported that many organizations are deploying agents faster than they can govern them, citing concerns around security, privacy, and the lack of mature governance. A recent Financial Times management discussion also highlighted the organizational tension AI creates between speed, workforce readiness, ownership, trust, and measurable outcomes. New research on “governance by design” argues that agentic AI governance must be built into the operating architecture: what agents can do, what data and tools they can use, how memory is handled, and how performance improvements are introduced over time.
