Artificial Intelligence predictive algorithms are becoming more available to the common application. The use of predictive algorithms that leverage large global datasets that enable applications to then learn from and use smaller local corporate datasets to predict future outcomes or offer a larger set of potential solutions to the user is evolving at an almost shocking pace.
Visual applications in automation can identify shapes in real time so that robots can pick up parts. Security video systems can detect and match known facial features much faster and offer much higher quality matches than ever before.
In engineering and design, AutoDesk is working on applications in Generative Design as part of their Dreamcatcher research program, where the designer specifies the goals of the design and the artificial intelligence algorithms provide a much larger set of alternative designs solutions that a single designer could not have conceived alone.
So, what then is the future of project management? Project managers currently identify the goals of the project and develop the project elements, most notably the project schedule and risk register. Project management is very much in the business of predictions – we use available data to identify how the work will get done, by whom, and monitor the execution by task completion. We monitor our risk registers to identify upside opportunities and downside obstacles, and develop scenarios to benefit from opportunities and mitigate or eliminate obstacles.
But imagine using predictive, learning algorithms to develop the schedule and risk register for you. New project intuitive applications could harness the learning from earlier projects to present to the project manager a number of potential schedules that would solve for the outcomes such as delivery date, quality, available human and machine resources, as specified by the project manager.
Risks could be identified in chorus with the project manager and team; and as they become active in the time window, the application can work with the project manager to identify potential methods of mitigation and elimination, and if they become real then project recovery options can be reviewed.
The promise of learning artificial intelligence algorithms to work interactively and in a predictive manner are quite exciting. But where does that leave the roll of the project manager? One possible option is to look upon the new AI interface as a natural extension and automation of earlier tasks that the manager did ‘manually’. Work break-downs, task sequencing, risk registration, even HR (resource management) and lower level financial management. This would free up the manager to work more like a conductor, establishing goals such as delivery, product quality and cost, and establishing boundaries regarding work hours, resource and vendor pools, and geographical locations. The AI could be used to generate a range of potential options for the manager to review, manage and approve.
I am interested in hearing what the people in the group think about this. Please comment, like and share! Saving Changes...
Maybe you can post it as a blog, will reach more people.
Also, I would add something that I read from Chema Alonso, he was IT hacker and now CDO in Telefonica Spanish multinational broadband and telecommunications provider with operations in Europe, Asia, and North, Central and South America.
"Now that we are approaching the time when AI systems are reaching a mouse's reasoning ability, we are still in time to decide with which values we want to create them" Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
I have a degree in AI (Knowledge Engineering) earned on the time where AI was suppossed to be the solution to all ills. And I have lead initiatives (mainly in finance and banking) to apply it on the field. What you stated, no offence, is what science fiction promises but it is not real in the real world of AI (please sorry if I missunderstand your post). Project manager will take the same role than today inside environments where you will work with AI or any other today buzzwords like agile or bid data (former data warehouse environements generally speaking).
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1 reply by Mayte Mata Sivera
Dec 16, 2016 2:23 PM
Mayte Mata Sivera
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Project Manager role will be more or less the same or will improve it with new tools.
As a Sci-Fi movie fan, in the 80's star-treck showed me 3D printers, tablets, google glass, after Minority Report this amazing air touch technology that we can enjoy nowadays, Stanley Kubrick imagined it in 1968 the video calls...
I have a degree in AI (Knowledge Engineering) earned on the time where AI was suppossed to be the solution to all ills. And I have lead initiatives (mainly in finance and banking) to apply it on the field. What you stated, no offence, is what science fiction promises but it is not real in the real world of AI (please sorry if I missunderstand your post). Project manager will take the same role than today inside environments where you will work with AI or any other today buzzwords like agile or bid data (former data warehouse environements generally speaking).
Project Manager role will be more or less the same or will improve it with new tools.
As a Sci-Fi movie fan, in the 80's star-treck showed me 3D printers, tablets, google glass, after Minority Report this amazing air touch technology that we can enjoy nowadays, Stanley Kubrick imagined it in 1968 the video calls...
Don't underestimate Sci-Fi. :) Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
It is not a matter to underestimate something. It is a matter to understand what AI is. I took my master degree with the fathers of the AI. And they said: machines will replace human being when at the same time they will be sitting in the toillet and reading the newspaper". Each person who was trained in AI will understand that. And by the way, I saw the start treck televisión series (no the movie) and my favorite charecter was Spoc indeed (hehehehe). I am an old man Maria.... I saw the human in the moon when I was child by televisión.. Saving Changes...
AI is really fascinating. I attended a conference on Digital transformation recently, and I can see lot of things already happening. I am sure AI could be used in lot of ways in coming years.
Like Maria suggested, you can publish it as a blog posting.
@Maria: I was a great fan of Star Trek & Cosmos in early years :) Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
And just one other comment: today we are surrounded by AI (for example our refrigerartors use fuzzy logic to operate) and with devices that use it and today some people name them inside the IoT "ecosystem". And that is one of the greatest advance of AI: it is there but we are not aware on that (Terminator is ready to return, perhaps.... jejejejeje) Saving Changes...
