Embracing the Future, Here and Now, with Microsoft Copilot

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a buzzword which will transform our day-to-day work processes. But what specific tools are there for you as a PMO professional, and how can they support you in your role?

Join Chris Edwards, Head of Product Development, for an insightful session where he explores Copilot, Microsoft’s cutting-edge AI technology, and its potential to bolster your organisation’s PPM and PMO capabilities. Chris will highlight how Copilot can assist both your PMO and PPM users, including project and programme managers, by providing intelligent recommendations, valuable insights, and ultimately improving the quality of your data and decision-making.

This session is a timely one for many PMOs as they start to explore how these new technologies can not only support current approaches to PMO services but also potentially bring a whole new approach to the way PMO provides added value to the organisation.  By integrating AI with your PPM solution, PMOs can significantly elevate their efficiency, quality, and adaptability.

Key Takeaways

1. Understanding of AI in PMO: You will gain a comprehensive understanding of how AI, specifically Microsoft Copilot, is transforming Project Portfolio Management (PPM).
2. Practical Applications: You will learn about the practical applications of Microsoft Copilot in your role, including how it can provide intelligent recommendations and valuable insights and improve the quality of data and decision-making.
3. Efficiency and Adaptability: You will discover how integrating AI with their PPM solution can significantly elevate your efficiency, quality, and adaptability, enhancing your PMO’s capabilities.

Recorded Session

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Session Overview

From Conference Reporter – Monie Manugue

In the session ‘The PMO Future is Now: Utilising AI in the PMO with Microsoft Copilot AI’, Chris Edwards shared a survey that showed more people chose access to Microsoft (MS) Copilot over a free lunch.

I thought long and hard. I could savor lunch, even if it’s something that I paid for. Copilot, on the other hand, lets me savor the time that I save by using it.

The talk was a fascinating display of how Copilot is reshaping how PMOs can refocus effort to deliver even greater value to organisations.  Copilot can help us with an extensive range of tasks, including meeting recaps, presentation preparation, and initiation of project plan tasks.

As a PMO, I like personal touch and the creativity that is my own. But Copilot has helped me with tasks such as translating pictures to insightful content after a brainstorm session, turning survey comments into actionable summaries and providing a gist from interesting documents and articles. One of my first few Copilot interactions was “Please summarize Pride and Prejudice in 1 paragraph 1000 words.”. I was happy with the results.

I agree that the Future is Now, and embracing the use of AI tools at our fingertips will make us more efficient, and competitive. Listening to this talk made me appreciate the effort that our Tech Resource Team exert to enable tools that improve our daily lives.  At first, learning to use them is cumbersome, but as most would agree, it is time well spent. I know I will spend more time this summer learning more about Copilot use cases for PMO.

How much time have you spent learning about AI tools that will help us become more efficient?

I have a few reports prepared for the PMO conference. Are you able to discern if any of them got help from Copilot? 😊