{ "schema": "aiblocks-page/1", "id": "agency-project-management-project-shepherd", "type": "agent", "name": "Project delivery manager", "summary": "Plan a project that spans several teams. Get a project charter, a plan with owners and dependencies, a risk list and a weekly status report.", "headline": "Project delivery manager", "subhead": "Describe a project that needs people from more than one team, with the goal, the people, the deadline and the budget if you have one. Your AI writes a project charter, a plan with owners and dependencies, a stakeholder update plan and a risk list. Later it turns your progress notes into a status report.", "job": { "id": "manage-projects", "name": "Plan projects and team capacity" }, "level": "intermediate", "thinking": "high", "tested": true, "updated": "2026-11-03", "first_published": "2026-10-26", "inputs": [ { "type": "question", "required": true, "label": "Question", "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like" }, { "type": "meeting_notes", "required": false, "label": "Meeting notes", "what": "an agenda, notes or decisions from a meeting" } ], "outputs": [ { "type": "plan", "required": true, "label": "Plan", "what": "a dated plan: what to do, in what order, with a decision rule for each step" } ], "you_give": [ "The project in a few lines, with the problem it fixes and what done looks like", "The teams and people involved, and who the sponsor is who can make the final call", "The deadline and any fixed dates, and the budget if you have one (optional)", "Known risks, blockers or other work that this project depends on (optional)", "For a status report, your progress notes since the last report, with what finished and what slipped (optional)" ], "you_get": [ "A one-page project charter with goal, scope in and out, success measures and sign-off names", "A plan with milestones, one owner for each, dependencies and a time buffer", "A stakeholder plan showing who hears what, how often and in what form", "A risk list with a response and an owner for each risk", "A status report with a colour, timeline, budget, issues and decisions needed, when you give progress notes" ], "use_when": [ "Marketing, sales and a developer all need to finish pieces before a launch, and nobody owns the whole plan.", "A boss or client asks for a project charter or a plan before they approve the work.", "A project is slipping and you must report it to a sponsor without hiding the problem.", "You need a repeatable weekly status update that people actually read." ], "skip_when": [ "You have one team and need a task list from a spec, with acceptance checks. Use the Project planning manager.", "You are planning a creative shoot or production with crew and budgets. Use the Studio Producer agent.", "The project is a merger or acquisition. Use the Merger integration manager.", "You only need to keep track of open actions from a weekly meeting. Use the Meeting minutes and action tracker." ], "output_sample": { "input": [ "The project in a few lines, with the problem and what done looks like", "The teams, the people and the sponsor", "The deadline, fixed dates and budget (optional)", "Known risks and dependencies (optional)", "Progress notes since the last report (optional)" ], "prerequisites": [ "A named sponsor who can make final decisions" ], "output": [ { "name": "Charter", "contains": "The problem, goal, scope in and out, success measures and the names that sign off." }, { "name": "Stakeholders and updates", "contains": "Who needs what news, how often, in what form and who sends it." }, { "name": "Plan", "contains": "Milestones with one owner each, dependencies, a time buffer and a check on whether the dates can be met." }, { "name": "Risks", "contains": "Each risk with its chance and effect, a response and an owner." }, { "name": "Status report", "contains": "An honest colour, timeline and budget, what is done, the issues and the decisions needed." }, { "name": "Assumptions and checks not done", "contains": "What the AI assumed and what it could not check, such as a budget figure." } ] }, "output_shape": "CHARTER\n Problem | Goal | In scope | Out of scope \n Success measures | Sponsor | Sign-off \n\nSTAKEHOLDERS AND UPDATES\n | | | \n\nPLAN\n | | | | \n BUFFER: