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Information Technology Project Managers
Plan, initiate, and manage information technology (IT) projects. Lead and guide the work of technical staff. Serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects. Plan project stages and assess business implications for each stage. Monitor progress to assure deadlines, standards, and cost targets are met.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Confer with project personnel to identify and resolve problems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Monitor or track project milestones and deliverables.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Submit project deliverables, ensuring adherence to quality standards.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Assess current or future customer needs and priorities by communicating directly with customers, conducting surveys, or other methods.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Initiate, review, or approve modifications to project plans.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Schedule and facilitate meetings related to information technology projects.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Direct or coordinate activities of project personnel.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Develop implementation plans that include analyses such as cost-benefit or return on investment (ROI).People already use AI for this at work
- 10Identify need for initial or supplemental project resources.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss31%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
57%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 87% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.
AI tools for your work
Official connectors that let an AI assistant work inside the apps software developers use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.