AI Essentials for Project Professionals

The advent of AI, and most recently, the use of generative AI (GenAI) applications, is ushering in an era of unprecedented change, often referred to as the Exponential Age. It is increasing the technological change rate and resolving the workforce issues produced by those advancements. This transformation brings with it a myriad of unknowns and challenges, and project professionals are poised to play a pivotal role as both organizational leaders and agents of change. How the project practitioner works— and the tools they work with— will change in this Exponential Age. With the advent of AI, professionals will recast how they perform their jobs and help their organizations navigate change in their respective functional areas. This guide intends to provide a broad, general view for understanding AI from the context of the project professional, and some key uses of AI that are applicable to their daily tasks. A companion guide will explore other facets of AI to help project practitioners solve challenges they face in their roles and with the organizational adoption of AI.