r/projectmanagement rules, stats, and what to post

This is a community for professional project management topics. The description says it exists to promote project management methodologies and to foster free discussion about all things project management. The people posting here are working project managers and people interested in the practice of the job. The community draws a clear line around what belongs here. Career questions, like getting a first PM role, switching industries, salary questions, resume and interview advice, and certification choices, are redirected to r/PMcareers. Homework and interview questions are treated as assessments of your own skills, not something the sub will do for you. The rules also push people to search before posting common questions, like which PM software to use, which tells you the same basic questions come up often and regulars are tired of them.

Three rules decide everything here. “Be Civil, Be Professional, and Engage in Good Faith” sets the tone and also bans AI-generated content in both posts and comments, with exceptions only permitted by moderators. “Project Management Topics Only” keeps the sub on professional project management topics and sends career questions like first PM roles, salary questions, and certification advice to r/PMcareers instead. “No Self-Promotion / Advertising / Soliciting / Monetization / SPAM” is the one that matters most for founders, because it covers references or links to websites, blogs, videos, tools, services, surveys, calls, or social media, and it explicitly says market research and requirements definition count as promotion.

For a founder, the honest answer is that this is a hard room to post into and the win is patience. A good post is a genuine discussion about project management practice, written by you, with no links and no product mentions. Think a specific question about how experienced PMs handle a real situation on their projects, or a lesson you learned running projects that invites others to share how they do it. If you want to talk about software, search first and join existing threads instead of starting a new one. If your goal is feedback on your product, the rules do not give you a path for that here, so your best move is to participate as a knowledgeable peer and let people discover what you do from your profile, not from your posts.

The fastest way to get removed is self promotion. Do not post links to your site, blog, video, tool, service, survey, or social media, and do not dress up market research or requirements gathering as a discussion, because the rules name both as promotion. Do not post AI-generated content, in posts or comments, since the civility rule bans it outright. Do not ask career questions here, because mods may remove them and point you to r/PMcareers. Do not post common questions like which PM software to use without searching first. And keep the tone professional and civil, no politics, no hate, engage in good faith, because bigots and hate speech have a zero tolerance policy.

The no AI content rule is the one that stops me here, because a lot of founders would happily let a chatbot write their intro post and get it removed without ever knowing why. I also like that the mods point career questions to r/PMcareers instead of just deleting them, which tells you they want this sub focused on the craft itself. If your product touches project management, this is a room full of exactly your users, and the only way in is to show up as a practitioner with something useful to say.