Can AI Replace Project Management Training?
Following 20 years at a large Canadian telecommunications firm, Bruce established the project management consulting firm Solutions Management Inc (SMI). Since 1999, he has provided contract project/program management services, been a source for project management support personnel and created/delivered courses to over 7,000 participants in Canada, the United States and England.
I’ve contributed dozens of articles from a project management training perspective on his site, including a series of articles titled Back to PM Basics. The articles attempt to provide a classroom level of instruction via detailed directions. My goal is to share a perspective based on more than two decades of project management experience. The content is very targeted, and potentially saves interested readers from sorting through endless search results or purchasing formal training.
All the articles were posted on ProjectManagement.com and were created before artificial intelligence services such as ChapGPT became mainstream. I was interested in exploring the potential of my services no longer being relevant since AI content is readily accessible by all and creates content based on many sources (it leverages the power of potentially thousands of input data sources).
I decided to put it to the test. I pretended I had been handed a project and didn’t know where to start. I typed: “What are the first steps of creating a project management plan?”
I was impressed with the almost 500 words that outlined the structure of a fundamental project management plan. It spoke to the need to identify the scope, communications needs, the importance of a schedule, and even that success needs to be defined. I was astonished that it concluded by stating &ldquo…
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