PMI Central Ohio – Professional Development Day 2020

Augmented Project Intelligence – How AI will change project culture

Project managers need to make critical project decisions on a daily basis and are confronted with increasing complexities, high ambiguity and the need to process an exponentially growing amount of data and information in order to make informed and good decisions, resulting in an increased risk of project failures while the project management industry is already challenged with ongoing low project success rates, caused by often massive failures of projects.

Project Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence are expected to have a significant impact on the project management practice by providing analytical and unbiased capabilities that go beyond the human possibilities, towards a data-driven and fact-based decision-making approach.

While there is little doubt that AI as a trending technology will disrupt the project management practice and augment today’s project management capabilities, AI can not be seen as just another new tool to make project management more effective but rather will act as a complement to the human intelligence, requiring a collaborative approach between the human and the machine, and accordingly a significant change in project culture and people’s mindset.

This session will provide an overview of the expected changes from AI-driven project management, the resulting impact on project decision-making and changes in project culture, and what actions can be taken by project professionals to match their beliefs and behaviors with the new project culture.