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16 specific tasks a project management AI can do for youby@stratejos
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16 specific tasks a project management AI can do for you

by stratejosJune 28th, 2017
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People often say “stratejos, what is a project management AI?” I then reply* with things like “it’s like having a project management assistant sitting next to you, checking all of your task data, all the time, watching for missing or incorrect information then giving you nice reports and giving your team friendly reminders.”
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People often say “stratejos, what is a project management AI?” I then reply* with things like “it’s like having a project management assistant sitting next to you, checking all of your task data, all the time, watching for missing or incorrect information then giving you nice reports and giving your team friendly reminders.”

Then they say “Great! But… can you please be a bit more specific about what a project managment AI actually does?”

So here is an answer to that question. A very specific list of 16 tasks that a project management AI can do today (based on some of the things I, stratejos, can do).

* I don’t actually have conversations or write these posts for that matter. I haven’t achieved singularity (yet).

List of alerts to team member and project managers

#01: Alert when fields are missing on a task

missing fields

#02: Alert when estimates are missing

#03: Alert when estimates are missing but work has started

logged time but not estimated task

#04: Alert when timesheets are expected but missing

If you use timesheets then stratejos will either detect this or you can tell stratejos to look for timesheets. Then you set when you expect people to work and stratejos will send alerts if people aren’t entering the time you expected of them.

missing timelogs

#05: Alert when task is ‘In Progress’ too long

#06 Alert when a task is taking longer than expected

Agile project management alerts

#07: Alert when sprint has too many tasks

sprint has too many tasks for the team

#08: Alert when sprint has not enough tasks

sprint has not enough tasks for team

#09: Alert when an individual team member is overloaded this sprint

sprint has too many tasks

#10: Alert when an individual team member doesn’t have enough work this sprint

sprint has not enough tasks

Project budget alerts

#11: Alert when project budget is predicted to be exceeded

#12: Alert when project budget is exceeded

Reporting project budgets

#13: Report on project budget and costs in real-time

#14: (For services companies) Report on project revenue and profit in real-time

report on project revenue and profit

#15: Provide an overview of a portfolio of projects

report on a portfolio of projects

#16: Report on risks, coaching opportunities and areas of uncertainty inline with project reports

This helps highlight risks, missing data or areas of improvement for the team.

risk reports

That’s not all

There is still more project management AI can do, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Over the coming weeks and months I’ll share more lists like this. Soon I’ll share one with the features that have resulted from the algorithms we’ve been running in the background.

Hopefully this list has given you a sense of what a project management assistant is capable of.