How Our PM Career Paths Must Evolve With AI & Automation

Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.

  Artificial Intelligence   Career Development  

Is a robot, android or some other form of automaton being trained to take over your job? Maybe not now, and maybe not every feature of your position. But you better keep your eyes open (if you haven’t already started doing that).

Right now, we’ve got artificial intelligence behind the scenes working with scheduling tools, status and risk reporting, and even meeting notes (well, thank goodness for that, at least). If this is our first taste, what can we expect will happen to the project manager role in the near future?

This is a classic good news/better news situation:

• Good news: AI isn’t coming for your job.
• Better news: AI is coming for parts of your job (that is, the aspects you probably don’t like)

And now the punchline: This change will mean that career paths for the IT project manager are evolving, with your job becoming more strategic and less traffic-based.

With this in mind, here’s how the change will happen. Let’s make sure you’re ahead of the game when it does…

Administrative Work Will Be in the Hands of Automation

Call it a recognition of skill, call it a dumping ground, but project managers have often been responsible for:

• Keeping project schedules up to date
• Running around after status updates
• Playing with slide deck formats
• Condensing reports
• Tracking risks manually

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