Coordinating Humans and AI Agents: The PM Role in a Hybrid Team
Coordinating Humans and AI Agents: The PM Role in a Hybrid Team
AI agents are joining project teams. They write code, draft documents, run workflows, and post updates around the clock, and many people expect them to make project managers less necessary. In practice, they make the PM’s job bigger. Projects already fail because problems surface too late, decisions stall, and coordination can’t keep up, and agents make all three worse. Updates pile up faster than anyone can read them, it’s unclear who owns an agent’s output, and plans change faster than anyone can update them.
What You'll Learn
Key takeaways from this session
A clear view of the three most common reasons projects fail (problems surface too late, decisions stall, and coordination can’t keep up) and how AI agents on the team make each one worse
An understanding of how the PM’s three core jobs change in a team of people and AI agents: staying connected, keeping the plan current, and communicating to drive action
An approach to designing project communication that keeps both people and AI agents informed, with high signal and low noise
A practical sense of which routine PM work AI can take on, such as taking notes, collecting status, keeping everyone informed, and raising risks early, so you have more time for judgment and leadership
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About the Presenter
Keshav Puttaswamy
Keshav is product leader and founder focused on helping organizations execute better in complex, fast-moving environments. Over the past two decades, he has led product strategy for billion-dollar platforms, built and scaled high-performing product teams, and delivered enterprise software used by millions. Today, he is building Empwr, an AI PM teammate and system of intelligence designed to reduce coordination debt and improve execution across the enterprise. He's worked across collaboration, developer platforms, messaging, AI, and enterprise infrastructure building products like Project, SharePoint, Yammer, Jira, Confluence, and large-scale messaging and calling systems at Meta.
