Project Management

Agentic AI: The Potential...and the Threat

Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at [email protected]. Andy's new book Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations is now available.

If you haven’t heard of agentic AI yet, then you soon will. It’s set to be the next big artificial intelligence trend in many areas, but portfolio and project management seems like an area of tremendous opportunity.

Agentic AI refers to the idea of AI “agents.” These are small, AI-powered applications that actually do something rather than simply provide information. If you think of early AI, it was really just a flashing cursor—a tool waiting to respond to a question or a prompt (think ChatGPT). Then came AI-enabled capabilities to provide information—say the analysis of reports, and flagging emerging trends that may not yet be apparent to human users.

Now come AI agents. Continuing our reporting example, an AI agent may recognize a trend that is emerging but instead of simply reporting it, it does something. It could be that they adjust a plan to prevent a critical path impact from a delayed task. It might be a resource reallocation to prevent a bottleneck. It could be almost anything.

What’s more, these AI agents can collaborate. There could be a different agent accountable for resource adjustments from the one that adjusts plans, and the one that manages change requests or a myriad of other things. These agents can be built, configured, modified, deployed and managed just about anywhere.

To me, this is AI finally having …


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