Our IT Columnist Looks Into Her Crystal Ball
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The future will be here before you know it. It’s best to be prepared. Priya Patra, PMP, IT columnist for PM Network and a regular contributor to ProjectManagement.com, has you covered.
Her latest column looks at what project managers can expect their role to look like in the year 2033, just 15 years away. If you think that digital disruption will change that role—you are right.
Priya covers three areas in her gaze into the crystal: automation, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). Automation, she says, will take tedious drudgery of documentation out of project managers’ lives and allow them to focus on more creative tasks. Bots will collect and distribute information and will actually join teams, alongside humans, that project professionals will manage.
AI will take things a step forward and attune project managers to the social and emotional well-being of their teams. This will mean project managers’ people skills will be even more essential.
Priya doesn’t want you to be frightened of the future, but rather celebrate it. The world will still need project managers, even if their role appears different than today. And that is true no matter where technology is taking us to—and how fast it is getting there.
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I can't wait for robots to come and join us in the meeting room. I hope they pay well when they become employers ;-)
Anish Abraham
Privacy Program Manager| University of Washington
Auburn, Wa, United States
Thanks for sharing this, Dan.
Sooner or later we will sit side by side with robots, wait moment aren't we already with smartphones, tablets and all of these technologies around us. I think PM will be more focused on the humanitarian part of communication in the project than now.
Priya Patra
Delivery Director| Capgemini India Technology Services Ltd
Mumbai, India
Thanks Dan for sharing a great summary of my column.
Sante/ Kevin , as you rightly said soon we will have diverse teams ( man machines)
Machines doing the heavy lifting and we humans doing what we do the bestsSetting the essential criteria, integrating projects and project components, and winning over and engaging stakeholders!
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