CHAPTER 19The Future Impact of AI in Project Management and Expertise

The future of PM-AI starts with better decision making, augmentation, automation, and communication with interpersonal soft skills. In these frenzied times, the integration of PM-AI reflects the rapid changes the industry is currently experiencing. Therefore, you should adopt AI solutions to stay competitive, improve efficiency, and make better data-driven decisions. The increased speed will benefit you by augmenting decision making and automating repetitive tasks and will drastically improve communication, risk management, and task efficiency.

An organization's strategic changes toward AI-centric project governance can be made evident by the arrival of chief AI officers and the adoption of multimodality. The key to the successful use of AI in PM is the combination of AI with behavioral project management (BPM) with human intelligence and cognitive competencies.

Given the rapid development of AI, project managers, especially those in the areas of technology, healthcare, construction, retail, and education, have no option but to keep up with the latest developments.

Communication among stakeholders will significantly improve with the assistance of GPT models and AI tracking of project progress in real time, allowing for quick changes. AI will develop more enhanced predictive analytics and will improve risk management and its ability to customize project-management tools for the needs of individual projects ...

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