AI Assistants for Project Managers
Mike Griffiths is an experienced project manager, author and consultant who works for PMI as a subject matter expert. Before joining PMI, Mike consulted and managed innovation and technology projects throughout Europe, North and South America for 30+ years. He was co-lead for the PMBOK Guide—Seventh Edition, lead for the Agile Practice Guide, and contributor to the PMI-ACP and PMP exam content outlines. Outside of PMI, Mike maintains the websites www.LeadingAnswers.com about leading teams and www.PMillustrated.com, which teaches project management for visual learners.
Predictions like “Artificial intelligence (AI) is monitoring us” and “AI will take our jobs” are scary. However, long before our jobs as project managers are taken, AI will help us. In fact, it already is, and we don’t think about it much. While writing this article, AI in Microsoft Word and the add-in Grammarly helped protect you from the bulk of my spelling and grammar mistakes. This is how AI will help us first, by doing small things we are error prone with, before tackling larger tasks.
Like me, do you spend time booking meetings, finding rooms and distributing information? Do you analyze backlogs and scope outlines for potential risks, or review estimates for commonly missed activities? Artificial intelligence can help with these tasks and many more.
Imagine having a non-judgemental expert monitoring everything you do (and don’t do) at work and making helpful suggestions to you in private. This expert is constantly learning, is plugged into all the latest research and works for free. This is the not-too-distant future of AI-assisted project management.
June is technology month here at Project Management.com, and there have been a few articles about AI taking away project management jobs. This article focuses on ways AI can help project managers, which will happen as AI develops and before it can replace jobs. It deals with …
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