DPM/Ops Dynamic Duo Workshop

Artificial intelligence is changing project work faster than most teams can keep up. But the biggest challenge isn’t learning another tool. It’s rethinking the systems, processes, and habits that were built for a world where humans did every step of the work.

In this highly interactive workshop, Brett Harned and Rob Harr will help you step back from the AI hype and focus on what actually matters: designing better ways of working.

Rather than teaching prompts or walking through tool features, you’ll work through practical exercises that help you identify opportunities to improve your own workflows, rethink outdated processes, and create an actionable plan for introducing AI into your team’s day-to-day work. Along the way, you’ll explore how project managers and operators can lead AI adoption, establish healthy working agreements, and build shared practices that make AI a capability for the entire team, not just a few enthusiastic early adopters.

Whether you’re just beginning to explore AI or already experimenting with it every day, you’ll leave with practical frameworks you can apply immediately, meaningful conversations with peers facing similar challenges, and a roadmap for helping your team work smarter without losing the human-centered approach that great projects depend on.

In this workshop, you’ll:

• Reframe the role of AI in operations and project management beyond productivity hacks and prompt engineering.

• Evaluate your current workflows to identify where AI creates real value and where humans remain essential.

• Learn how to redesign project processes instead of simply layering AI onto outdated ways of working.

• Develop an AI enablement plan that includes shared knowledge, working agreements, and team-wide practices.

• Build a practical action plan you can bring back to your organization and begin implementing immediately.