PMTales Armory
Practical tools for PMs who manage chaos, not theory.
Tools Forged in the Trench - for Surviving Real Projects.
Equip Yourself for Real-World Delivery
The Armory is where the practical tools live — templates, creature cards, workshop aids, and PM resources built in the PMTales voice. New items are added regularly as the world expands.
Where Real PM Tools Live
Projects rarely fall apart because of one big failure —
they crack under drifting expectations, shifting priorities, and quiet pressure.
The PMTales Armory is your shelf of practical, field-tested project tools built for PMs who manage real constraints, real stakeholders, and real delivery risk.
Everything here is:
– simple
– usable
– built for pressure
– written with honesty instead of jargon
When the project gets noisy, this is where PMs come to regain clarity.
PMTales — our stories, our shared narrative experience — live here.
Tools live off-world, where PMs already buy them.
Courses live where learning works best — in the Academy Training Hall.
CREATURE CARDS
PM Creatures — Illustrated Cards for Real Projects
100 character cards capturing the patterns, behaviors, and chaos engines behind every project you've ever survived.
The PM Creatures collection illustrates the hidden forces that derail timelines, distort scope, drain teams, and pressure PMs into impossible situations.
Each card captures a pattern you instantly recognize — through humor, honesty, and trench-earned wisdom.
Use them for:
– onboarding
– PM coaching
– retrospectives
– workshops & training
– team culture
– stakeholder alignment
– presentations
– wall displays
Available Creature Card Collections
📦 Starter Pack — 25 Essential PM Creatures
The foundational set featuring the most iconic personalities in project chaos — the ones PMs meet every week.
Start your field guide where the real chaos begins.
📦 Mega Pack — All 100 PM Creatures
The complete illustrated universe of PM personalities, patterns, blockers, villains, heroes, and saboteurs.
Perfect for training, coaching, and teams that want to understand “why projects really behave the way they do.”
Every creature. Every pattern. Every lesson.
📦 Workshop Pack — 50 Facilitation Creatures
Designed for facilitators, trainers, and team leads running retrospectives, kickoff workshops, or PM development sessions.
Turn chaos into conversation.
📦 Stakeholder Archetypes Pack — 20 Advanced Creatures
For PMs who want sharper stakeholder pattern recognition — escalation artists, power brokers, quiet blockers, and more.
Because influence takes many forms.
Your Illustrated Guide to Project Survival
Every PM knows these creatures.
Now you can name them, teach them, and use them to align teams faster and with more humor.
BOOKS & FIELD GUIDES
PMTales Books & Field Guides
Sharper judgment. Deeper patterns. Real PM survival.
Expectation drift, misalignment, and the silent resistance PMs never see coming.
A forensic tour of expectation drift, misalignment, and the silent signals PMs recognize too late.
→ Retrieve Book
Where creep starts, how it hides, and why projects derail in silence.
Where creep starts, how it hides, and the mechanics of slow-motion derailment.
→ Retrieve Book
Ceremonies, theatre, and every PM ritual we pretend isn’t absurd
Behavioral patterns. Influence traps. Resistance signals.
A satirical but painfully accurate tour of PM rituals and governance theatre.
→ Retrieve Book
Decode stakeholder behavior with this definitive guide to PM creatures, influence patterns, and real-world stakeholder survival.
The field guide every PM wishes they had.
→ Retrieve Book
STORYBOOK COLLECTION
PM Fairy Tales — Where Project Lessons Hide in Stories
Project wisdom disguised as bedtime stories for PMs.
Classic tales rewritten for modern delivery chaos.
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Snow White & the Seven Subcontractors
Vendor management, misalignment, and personalities… lots of personalities.
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Jack and the Beanstalk — Public Works Edition
Executive vision, political pressure, and tall expectations.
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Red Riding Hood & the Big Bad Stakeholder
Charm, influence, and the risk of quick “yeses.”
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Cinderella & the Midnight Go-Live
Late nights, tight deadlines, and technical debt past midnight.
Act I — The Junior PM Chronicles
A collected volume of early-career PM survival stories — the late-night deployments, impossible deadlines, shifting requirements, and first real lessons from the trench.
Core Project Tools
The Armory Is Always Open
Clarity is your best defense. The Armory gives you the tools to maintain it.
Projects shift. Stakeholders drift.
Timelines compress without warning.
When the trench gets loud, you need tools that help you stay clear and confident.
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