How can AI make our jobs easier to allow us more time to work on strategy and planning?

Kara, I believe there are many ways AI can help us do that and make our work more efficient such as Automating Repetitive Tasks, Process Automation, Resources Optimization, Insights from Data Analysis and many more. .

AI can streamline tasks by automating repetitive processes, such as data entry and analysis, freeing up time for strategic thinking. Natural Language Processing algorithms can sift through vast amounts of data to extract insights, aiding decision-making. Additionally, AI-driven predictive analytics can forecast trends and patterns, enabling proactive planning rather than reactive responses. I believe these advancements empower professionals to focus on higher-value activities, fostering innovation and growth within their respective industries.

Is AI making our jobs easier? What are these daily, routine tasks that a simulated intelligence is going to do for us? Can it do them without autonomy or automation (things publicly available AI doesn't come with, at least not for free)?

Instead of teaching people how to come up with user stories and use cases, maybe running workshops to create them, I'm teaching people how to write prompts to come up with user stories and use cases, maybe running workshops to review them and make sure they reflect our reality. It's too soon to say if that's making things easier. Some projects are getting faster, but I also have people willing to accept whatever AI gives them, without any review or validation. In this case, AI is giving us another potential point of failure.

The average project manager does not have vast amounts of project data that an AI can connect with. If you want AI insights into your project data, you likely have to enter it into a third-party AI, so you have to be careful about what data you enter into it.

Which repetitive project management tasks can AI automate? Writing code? No, that's not a PM task. Testing code? That's not, either. Creating the project schedule? AI can do this if you enter in the details, but where does it put them and how do you keep it up to date?

Let's have a real conversation about actual use cases where AI can help us do our jobs, digging into how the use cases work, or don't, instead of just listing features that may have little bearing on our actual work. Personally, I think there's a stronger use case for using AI to help with project strategy than day-to-day management of a project schedule. For example, AI is going to be more helpful in identifying potential risks and mitigations than in updating somebody's task status. I've used it for this on projects where nobody else wanted to talk about risk management. It made that part easier, but I still had to vet the information and get buy-in for owners and mitigations.

AI can be a powerful tool. It's worth understanding and figuring out how to best use it, including how to create good prompts. Good prompts are the key to effective use of AI. This may change the steps we take to accomplish our tasks, but that just means different, not always easier.

Generative AI will help you to work in strategy and planning. In fact, is one of the field where it best fits. Just take into account that when you use generative Ai lot of things has to be taken into account. For example, if an organization will use it almost a new business unit has to be created to deal with some issues. AI in general help on what you state from long time ago. More than 40 years ago tools for working in project/program/portfolio management include AI. Mainly to synthetize a hugh amount of data that could be useful for taking decisions.