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Writer's pictureCharlotte Joyce

How can AI enhance project and product management processes?



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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere in news right now. Whether it's how it will take over our jobs, to the integrity and worries about privacy and copyright, it is absolutely prolific right now.


Back in January, German global software company, SAP, announced a 7% reduction in it's workforce citing AI as the reason during 2024.


At the end of last year, 2023, Google blew my mind and everyone in digital and tech with this amazing showcase of what was to come with Gen AI and OpenGPT


Are you wondering how AI is going to impact your organisation? Specialising in digital transformation, having a solid understanding of how this could add value and you could stay ahead of your competition by embracing AI and seeing its full potential, rather than its negative attributes.


To stay up to date, Digital Transformations, reviewed two different learning modules on the topic. One for how it will impact project management and another how it will impact and add value to the product development lifecycle and all things product management.


 



a team reviewing a project plan and virtual artefacts using AI
AI is helping improve existing ways of working

Generative AI overview for Project Managers


This course is eye opening and if you don't know a lot yet about generative Artificial Intelligence GenAI, this would be a good place to start. This course covers;


✅ tools to help a Project Manager work


✅ the application of AI in project management


✅ best practices of using AI as a way of working in project management


The Project Management Institute are offering this course for free, their argument is that project managers are often at the heart of organisations, often across all levels, and who best to show how GenAI could work in practice. Absolutely not a replacement for human intelligence, GenAI relies on data input and validation by a human.


A full range of options are available to use from generative AI to improve and speed things up in project management, creation and organising documents, calculating earned value, ROI and more, creating a compelling business case. With any of the AI approaches it is about the data you put into it, that will yield the outputs. Plus this does not replace a project manager only assists the project manager in their field and expertise.


Interested in this course, you can signup here


 

AI in Product Management


This time it was a new free course from Pendo, Google, and Mind the Product’s. They came together to explore AI’s place in product management, use cases for leveraging AI, and best practices for building AI-powered features. 


What did we learn? Where to start... 

✅ AI is going to drive change in multiple areas of the product lifecycle 


✅ the roadmap remains ownership of the product owner


❌ AI can't replace us product owners and managers 


✅ speed things up, get to market quicker, learn quicker 


✅ provide enriched data analysis and learning


✅ AI improves product focus areas like usability and behaviours 


Want to take the course yourself? Sign up for free here: https://bit.ly/ai-for-pm


The impact into product life cycle seemed a lot larger than project management practices, areas of development, usability, design , copywriting and much more will be impacted in the product space. Getting ahead of these areas and being equipped with some of the tools and experiments now would be a good idea in your product teams.


Charlotte Joyce is a leading digital transformation expert, versed and experienced in Agile and Waterfall approaches, product and projects and excited to make things, products, projects better than she found them. Get in touch if you want to know more or have an exploratory discussion how Digital Transformations can help your organisation.

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