Origins
Trench was not born in a boardroom. He emerged from a simple observation: perfectly intelligent people can create perfectly absurd projects—and do it repeatedly.
WHO IS D.B. TRENCH?
Some men build careers. Some build reputations. Trench built an archive of the stories organizations prefer to forget. He writes about the distance between official narratives and lived reality.
Worldview
Organizations rarely run out of lessons learned. They run out of people willing to remember them. Polished reporting can make disorder look like progress.
Mission
To tell the unofficial tales of project management—stories that are funny, uncomfortable, revealing, and occasionally painful because they are true in all the wrong ways.
The PMTales Universe
Through books, stories, and commentary, PMTales documents the recurring chaos around projects—the patterns, the language, and the decisions that keep returning with fresh funding.
They call it satire. He calls it the unofficial record.
Behind the pen name