The Project Manager Role in the Age of AI

Part of AI-Powered Project Management: Lightning Lessons

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Wed, Aug 19, 2026

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AI-Powered Project Management
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What you'll learn

Answer the One Question That Matters

What is the PM responsible for when AI changes how work gets done? Leave with your answer, not a borrowed one.

See Why the Role Is Shifting Right Now

AI resets productivity expectations, teaming, and delivery cycles. Learn the 3 drivers behind the shift.

Sort Your Tasks: Automated vs. Defended

Split your PM work into what AI takes over and what stays human: tradeoffs, escalation, and accountability.

Find the New Work AI Projects Create

AI projects and agents need guardrails, oversight, and decision boundaries. That work lands on the PM.

Reshape the Mindset Before the Mechanics

Leave with language to explain your value without defensiveness and one role move to make this quarter.

Why this topic matters

For project managers and delivery leads whose role is shifting faster than their job description. AI is collapsing roles and resetting what teams expect from a PM. This lesson answers one foundational question: what is the PM responsible for when AI changes how work gets done? In 30 minutes you'll trace the drivers, sort your own tasks, and reshape the mindset before the mechanics.

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Justin Bateh, PhD

AI Project Leader | PhD & PMP | Led 40+ AI Rollouts | Top 100 Maven Instructor

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Justin Bateh, PhD, is an 8-time award-winning educator, AI strategist, and LinkedIn Top Voice with 20+ years leading 80+ high-impact projects. With a PhD in Operations Management & PMP certified, he's a Top 100 Maven Instructor training people at companies like Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, & Medtronic.

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