Will the widespread adoption of prompt engineering commoditize project management skills, or can it help PMs differentiate themselves and command higher value?
Director, Learning Design & Development| PMIAsheville, NC, United States
Hi PMI Community! I’m Sarah Philbrick, and I work as a Product Manager at PMI with a focus on our learning offerings. As we go on this skill-building journey together, I’m excited to engage in meaningful conversations, explore trending topics, and learn from each other.
Reflecting on one such topic, GenAI and prompt engineering, I am interested to hear your perspective on commoditization vs. differentiation.
Will the widespread adoption of prompt engineering commoditize project management skills, or can it help PMs differentiate themselves and command higher value?
The gen AI will support the PMs to perfom the actvities faster but we need to be caucios of not providing internal data also we need to ckeck the output of the gen AI, Saving Changes...
Farwa HassanProject ManagerToronto, ON, CAN, Canada
Prompt Engineering will help expedite project management tasks, thereby, enhancing performance at work. This will directly or indirectly improve Project Managers' skills and market-worth. Saving Changes...
This really depend on the organization as to how they would be using generative AI tools for project management. Whatever data AI can churn out, it really needs human intelligence to analyze, differentiate and present in a form that is useful for further processing. Saving Changes...
Michelle SpinielloProject Manager| Baker HostetlerDobbs Ferry, Ny, United States
Anyone can ask an LLM or a chat bot a question. The real value of a seasoned PM is going to be asking the LLM the right questions and then having the experience and the knowledge to build a reliable validation check to make sure the information returned is correct. These tools are too immature and vastly different to rely on them completely without background knowledge and experience. I suspect the people that will be the winners are those that prove themselves to be reliable fact checkers and give consistent good information. Saving Changes...
Anonymous
In the "60 Minutes" ABC Broadcast earlier this Winter 2024, the interviewer was astounded at how quickly an AI Robot taught itself to play a soccer game, and as AI Developers create updated or new models, it's possible that future versions, ideas, and innovations will speedily outpace the learning curve of all Project Managers and users who are at various skills and experience levels. Today, for those early LLM AI adopter Project Managers it works with best prompts and perhaps not always perfectly. However, everyone in the field is not especially on the same page with AI; and as technology goes, some tool will grow to be more robust and intelligent and work faster, save time, and be more efficient and just be better. It leads to the question of how to keep up. Although, whatever comes down the pipe, surely the best of human logic, skill, and resourcefulness users will find a way to work around it and adapt. This comment does not address the question asked if PM would be better to commoditize it or differentiate PMs, and in my opinion perhaps creation of the two test groups to determine if one or both would best facilitate project management and its' use of AI. Best Saving Changes...
Anonymous
It will improve efficiency and value to the output Saving Changes...
The widespread adoption of prompt engineering can indeed help project managers differentiate themselves and command higher value. By leveraging advanced AI techniques, PMs can enhance their decision-making, streamline processes, and deliver superior project outcomes, thus standing out in a competitive market. Saving Changes...
Ashwini ApteSan Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
The widespread adoption of prompt engineering and rapidly evolving GenAI techniques will definatley augment PM skills. It is quite possible that an AI Project Manager bot will evolve soon but will it replace the human PM? I believe "Not"! It will be necessary for the human-in-loop aspect given the areas of bias and ethical considerations apart for validation of the data produced by AI / PM bot. The emotional intelligence cannot be replaced by any AI eneavors whatsoever and that would differentiate PMs as they adapt AI skills to command higher value. Saving Changes...
Prompt engineering will assist the Project Manager in being more effective and efficient in their tasks Saving Changes...
Sonia AvilesDirector of PM/PMO| Integra LifeSciences Corp.Stockton, Nj, United States
The widespread adoption of prompt engineering will serve to differentiate skillful project managers who are able to use generative AI tools to save time when producing certain project documents or assets. This will increase the project manager's efficiency and enable them to spend quality time on activities that require more thoughtk or time. Saving Changes...
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