Project HEADWAY: Demonstrating PM Value in the Age of AI

New technology innovations always offer a promise of potential work and job displacement. This has been true since the Industrial Revolution, and the promises and threats have only grown since.

The advent of generative AI has arguably been the fastest adoption of a new technology innovation. AI has gone from novelty to mainstream adoption and utilization with astonishing rapidity. It has also exponentially involved in refinement, depth, complexity, and scope of responses.

AI is also one of the first technologies that potentially threatens the role and livelihood of white-collar and knowledge-based workers, from insurance agents to lawyers to medical specialists. Project managers are certainly exempt from this threat.

At the same time, there are fundamental limitations to what the technology of AI can actually accomplish. There are applications in the realm of a project manager’s role where the technology can help significantly. There are areas where AI needs to be used judiciously and with an abundance of caution. And there are outcomes that AI will never be able to support, no matter how good it gets.

The challenge is rethinking the value that we can—and should—deliver as project managers. We need to set our own expectations and manage the expectations of our clients and teams.

If you are wondering about the future of project management—and whether or what the future of the project manager role is in the face of the AI onslaught—this is a presentation that you won’t want to miss.