Governed AI Project Delivery: Why PMOs Need Approval Gates

Enterprise PMOs are under pressure to move faster without giving up control. Generative AI promises throughput but introduces new risks: silent decisions, lost context, and untracked changes to the system of record. Governed AI project delivery is the answer.

Three principles

1. Bounded autonomy. Every AI action runs inside a tier — Assist, Operate, or Lead — that maps to your risk appetite.
2. Proposals, not surprises. High-impact changes surface as proposals that route to the right approver before anything moves.
3. Audit by default. Every recommendation, decision, and integration update leaves evidence behind.

Putting it into practice

Start with Assist for new projects. Promote workflows to Operate as templates, thresholds, and policies stabilize. Reserve Lead for mature PMOs with clear approval ladders.

AI does not replace governance. It scales it.

BotPM ships these primitives out of the box, so PMOs can deploy AI without rewriting their operating model.