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Revolutionizing the Project Management Space with Advanced Technologies
In today’s dynamic project management world, the way organizations manage projects contributes a great deal to their success. With the burgeoning changes in business needs and technological advancements, project managers are greatly inclined towards integrating advanced technologies into their projects to achieve the best outcomes. 2024 is expected to witness greater deployment of advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Automation, Hyperautomation, Blockchain, and many others to restructure project processes, enhance decision-making capabilities, optimize resource utilization, and thus, foster greater success in projects.
Let’s dive into the nuances of these advanced technologies and comprehend their impact on project management practices!
AI
AI has been making a big splash in the world of project management! Across every stage of managing a project, from recruiting the right people for a project, delegating responsibilities in accordance with their skillsets, to allocating the right resource for the right task, and much more; AI plays a crucial role in adding more value to the project. In fact, project management tools powered by AI allow project managers to focus on core business tasks while these tools perform a range of technical tasks.
To handhold project managers, these tools can seamlessly track the progress and check key metrics of a project, including budget, productivity, gross profit margin, ROI, customer satisfaction, cost performance, and others. By analyzing the data of previous projects and their outcomes, these tools can also provide valuable insights, exceptional risk assessments, and real-time monitoring so that project managers can make better, informed decisions. Furthermore, the powerful integration of AI and project management offers other benefits, comprising better and accurate project estimations, efficient document management, enhanced scheduling and planning, reliable, accurate roadmaps and budgets, and much more!
Automation & Hyperautomation
Automation and its diverse capabilities can create wonders in the space of project management, thus enabling project managers to focus on crucial strategic tasks. The key aspects where automation is helpful in project management include creating new projects and tasks, sending timely task reminders and notifications, seamless review and updating, detecting and resolving bottlenecks, and much more. Before considering automation for their projects, the project managers ought to understand the level of automation required along with when and how to use the right automation. Most importantly, it is requisite to create a predefined, consistent, and reliable process before assigning automation software to automate the tasks in the project.
When integrated with AI, ML, and other advanced technologies, automation becomes a powerhouse in the project management space. Hyperautomation especially stands out as the next big thing in 2024! Some specific uses of Hyperautomation in project management entail ML for risk management, scheduled planning, and other tasks; advanced AI-powered predictive analytics, intelligent document automation and management; Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for repetitive tasks, reducing errors, and enhancing accuracy; resource allocation optimization; automated communication via chatbots and virtual assistants; Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for reading text from different sources, and a lot more!
Blockchain
Outclassing as a game-changer across multiple industries, Blockchain technology has been making great strides in the project management industry as well. The major potential of blockchain technology in project management lies in optimizing project workflows, streamlining communication, fostering collaboration among stakeholders, minimizing risks, enhancing decision-making, and especially inducing trust among each stakeholder.
This technology provides benefits such as transparency, security, accountability, data security, real-time reporting, and efficiency par excellence to project management processes. To articulate, Blockchain brings much transparency to projects and makes everything open to the stakeholders involved. All the project information is maintained safe and secure using special codes, thus making sure every change made by the stakeholders is tracked and monitored. Eventually, these stakeholders can trust everything that is happening in the project due to the unrivaled security and transparency offered by Blockchain technology.
With the rapidly evolving Blockchain technology, it is imperative for Blockchain project managers to stay updated with the new developments and tools. Effective Blockchain project management helps project managers execute important projects on time, with added value, efficiency, and security when compared with traditional project management practices.
Beyond the Technological Frontiers!
“The P in PM is as much about people management as it is about project management,” quoted Cornelius Fichtner, a renowned author, course creator, and podcast host. Under this realm of people management, project managers ought to possess Emotional Intelligence (EI), which involves being self-aware of their feelings and how they express them. In addition, how they perceive the emotions of their team members and clients, along with the ability to read tone and body language during social interactions, plays a huge role.
Since people stand as the cornerstone of any project, it is essential for project managers to have high EI to effectively work with people and foster the integrity of their organization. EI offers diverse advantages in the space of project management, entailing team collaboration, boosted motivation, high adaptability, enhanced communication, and effective conflict resolution. Thus, the EI skillset presents a beautiful fusion of logic and empathy that places exceptional project managers an edge above the rest!
In 2024, the way forward for project managers is to continuously learn and adapt to emerging project management trends, technologies, and tools while boosting their social skills. These architects of change are undoubtedly the architects of progress, who have been revolutionizing the project management world!
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Kalaivani Vaidyanathan, Director – Project Management Office, Cloud Destinations, articulates, “Besides harnessing the power of advanced technologies and tools, it is important for project managers to effectively navigate interpersonal relationships and emotions, a realm where technology cannot replace the need for human skills and understanding.” Kalai holds 20+ years of exceptional experience in the Software Engineering domain and 17+ years of diverse experiences in the Software Architecture and Development and Project Management spaces. She is an excellent technology manager who worked for Trimble Navigation and Cognizant Technology Solutions before joining Cloud Destinations.
