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Offshore isn't new and offshore teams tend to suck rlly bad. AI hasn't really hit PMs. The big hit is more from a philosophy change in big tech firms: cut out layers of management to run leaner and faster
I’m waiting for AI to schedule calls, take meeting notes, keep me organized - so that I can focus on working with the product and devs to get to the dates we need to hit. (I don’t have a junior assigned to me right now and honestly even the juniors shouldn’t just be scheduling calls).
In my last 10 years, I feel more like an administrative assistant than dealing with roadblocks and trying to run reports that I can determine why things are running slow/fast.
I was just assigned a big project that didn’t have project management support because they were going pure agile. 3 years after product/devs have had at it.
I am looking forward to the day when I can manage instead of admin assist.
But until companies let us use the ai for mundane activities - I think we have another 5-10 years before AI is used by the “commoners” in these big companies.
Communication skills are and always will be crucial for PMs, and it’s hard to automate that. Look for the requirements that repeat most often across job postings, and you’ll have a list (btw: there’s always „cross-functional team leadership”).
Keeping up with new technologies is also more important than ever, given the current rapid pace of changes.
I think for now AI is only threatening to automate out junior PMs (drafting SOWs, basic analysis and reporting, developing and optimizing schedules, work breakdown, meeting notes etc), which is for sure a long term threat to the profession, but that’s another story.
On the other hand, with full offshore development, companies need more PM involvement, not less.