Not all parts of running a company are considered "sexy," even if they're absolutely critical. One of these is project management.
PM finally seems to be getting its AI upgrade, and I brought on Dennis Kayser, the CEO and Founder of Forecast, which uses ML for project management and work automation. Their system can automatically plan out a project, put it in the right timeline, assign the right people and do many other things using AI.
We discuss:
- 01:36 — Skepticism about the need for innovation in PM software
- 8:02 — Good vs bad PM, using data vs gut feeling
- 10:25 — Forecast's customer types
- 14:14 — Why AI is transforming PM
- 20:09 — How Forecast's AI system is trained
- 27:21 — How Forecast's AI deals with the huge variety of data
- 31:19 — Solving the tricky problem of "predicting" how long a task will take
- 35:32 — How to smartly track people's progress on tasks
- 37:20 — How Forecast evolved as a B2B AI company
- 42:11 — Why a lot of non-profits collect enterprise PM data
- 43:15 — Investor outlook
- 45:21 — The right organization structure for heavily ML-oriented products
