From Delivery to Discovery in AI Projects — with Vinay Babu Tarala

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Vinay Babu Tarala discusses his journey in AI project management and the impact of CPMAI certification on software development cycles.

Kathleen Walch speaks with Vinay Babu Tarala, Agile and AI Transformation Leader at AT&T, PMI Pearl City Hyderabad Chapter General Secretary, and author of AI Meets Agile. With passion and candor, Vinay shares how early AI project failures led him to PMI-CPMAI certification, transforming his approach to managing AI initiatives. He illustrates how CPMAI’s structured framework reduced software development cycle times from 2.5 months to 1.5 months by embedding AI across the SDLC—from user st...

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Host: Kathleen Walch

Guest: Vinay Babu Tarala

Topics covered

• AI projects
• Agile transformation
• software development
• CPMAI certification
• AI integration
• project management

Keywords

• AI projects
• Agile
• CPMAI
• software development cycle
• AI integration
• project management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AT&T, PMI Pearl City Hyderabad Chapter

Books & works: AI Meets Agile

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