Automating project management with deep learning – Towards Data Science

In the data-driven future of project management, project managers will be augmented by artificial intelligence that can highlight project risks, determine the optimal allocation of resources and automate project management tasks. For example, many organisations require project managers to provide regular project status updates as part of the delivery assurance process. These updates typically consist of text commentary and an associated red-amber-green (RAG) status, where red indicates a failing project, amber an at-risk project and green an on-track project. Wouldn't it be great if we could automate this process, making it more consistent and objective? In this post I will describe how we can achieve exactly that by applying natural language processing (NLP) to automatically classify text commentary as either red, amber or green status.