Bots and project management
Work and the world around us has been disrupted. Computers and robots are taking over many of the jobs humans used to do. This economic change is impacting every industry including the practice of project management (PM).
Google’s DeepMind recently beat a world champion of Go, which is said to be the most advanced board game on this planet. Moreover, DeepMind is now able to assist doctors during surgery, detect risk of blindness in an early state to improve the chances of recovery, and other important breakthroughs such as natural language recognition, object detection in images, and face recognition.
Will bots help project managers to make more accurate plans?
It seems to be a subject that a lot of people are talking about but very few actually know what’s going on or what is going to happen in the near future. With all the talks about artificial intelligence and neural networks, supervised and unsupervised machine learning around, how a company has institutionalized AI in their work areas, can we try to attempt methodically artificial-intelligencize project management?
Can we develop a neural network for project management and teach the bot to learn from all past projects and predict the current project? The answer is Yes!
Can we lead some fuzzy logic to the AI Network so that it can “think” on its own and make its “own decisions” when no past data is available for contexts not taught yet? The answer is Yes!
Can we have this but tirelessly interact and manage each Business Analyst, Developer, Tester in the team to be available as “Project Manager” who listens to the team? The answer is Yes!
Can we expect this bot to collate all project related information, update the senior management on the project progress and status with its clear and focused objectives? The answer is Yes!
Can this bot update the client dashboard with all necessary project details and interacts with a client? The answer is Yes!
Overall, whether project manager’s like it or not, bots are soon to become a staple feature of their role. It can be a powerful tool when used properly and will bring huge benefits and productivity leaps to projects.
