Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly making its inroads in our personal and professional lives. It is a technological advancement that is transforming and benefiting the quality of life, jobs, organizations, industries and global economy. My point of view is that AI or cognitive computing will augment the role of the project manager. The technology has tremendous potential to enhance and scale. The following white-paper'The augmented project manager', describes how artificial intelligence technologies like machine learning and natural language processing can impact project management.

After seeing recent industry presentations on bots, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), I see the application of these technologies changing the practice of project management. The question is, is this future desirable or will we have a choice? Much of the daily work of a project manager has not dramatically changed over the last 30 years. We may use different management methodologies, but we spend a great deal of time manually collecting and disseminating information between the various roles on a project. This effort directly results from the need to fill the information gaps caused by systems that can't capture what is truly happening within the organization. In a recent PMI sponsored roundtable discussion, missing or incorrect data was highlighted as a significant issue.