Governance
8 min read
Rody Nigel, PhD
Why AI Governance Needs Project Management Discipline
Frameworks describe what good looks like; almost none describe who signs, when, and against what evidence.
Read article →Insights
Writing for people who have to sign the approval.
Short, practical pieces on governance, regulatory readiness and assurance — written for risk, compliance and technology leadership.
Library
Eight articles.
Risk
9 min read
Rody Nigel, PhD
AI Deployment in Regulated Industries: 5 Failure Modes
The failures we see repeatedly are not model failures — they are ownership, evidence, and scope failures that surface at audit.
Read article →Assurance
7 min read
Rody Nigel, PhD
Audit-Ready Is a State, Not a Project
If preparing for an AI audit requires a project, the deployment was not governed in the first place.
Read article →Governance
12 min read
Rody Nigel, PhD
The PMAIS Regulatory Crosswalk: Mapping EU, Canadian, and US Obligations to Implementation Controls
Compliance treated as a structured input to system design, rather than a checklist bolted onto a finished system.
Read article →Banking · United States
10 min read
Rody Nigel, PhD
Model Risk Management Beyond SR 11-7: What AI Actually Requires
SR 11-7 was written for statistical models. LLMs and agentic systems introduce failure modes traditional validation was never designed to catch.
Read article →Government · Canada
11 min read
Rody Nigel, PhD
Canada's AI Governance Landscape: PIPEDA, Quebec's Law 25, and the Federal Directive
A layered set of federal and provincial privacy obligations, plus a specific directive for public-sector automated decision-making.
Read article →Aerospace
11 min read
Rody Nigel, PhD
Certifying AI in Safety-Critical Aerospace Systems: A Framework Primer
DO-178C was not written for machine learning. Neither was ARP4754A. Airworthiness authorities are starting to issue guidance.
Read article →Governance
8 min read
Rody Nigel, PhD
AI Drafts, Humans Decide: Designing the Human-in-the-Loop Boundary
AI-generated work carries a named human reviewer of record before it leaves the project team.
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