Project management, the time-bound practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and ending the work of a team in the pursuit of specific organizational goals, has always been impacted by technology. While the core tenets of project management — scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk, and stakeholder management — have remained fairly unchanged over time, the tech tools deployed to manage these aspects have evolved considerably.
4 Factors That Will Help Project Managers Fulfill AI’s Potential
According to Gartner, 80% of project management tasks will be run by AI by 2030. Indeed, AI is transforming every aspect of work, including our management of people and projects. However, to realize AI’s transformational potential for project management, four critical pieces must come together: 1) organizations will need high-quality data; 2) human employees will need to think of AI as a copilot; 3) humans will need reskilling; and 4) organizations will need to prioritize the human experience. To truly realize AI’s full project management potential, humans will ultimately be the key. Success will ultimately be determined by whether they have both the skills and the comfort level, not to mention the leadership and mindset, needed to leverage rather than resist AI.