The Iterative Future of AI Projects — with Jürgen Eckhart

About this episode

Jürgen Eckhart discusses the iterative nature of AI projects and the importance of grounding them in business value and realistic expectations.

Kathleen Walch speaks with Jürgen Eckhart, Engineering Program Manager at Google in Munich, lecturer in project management, and PMI-CPMAI certified practitioner. Jürgen shares how CPMAI expanded his “toolbox” for managing AI projects, grounding them in business value, quality data, and realistic stakeholder expectations. He explains why AI must be treated as iterative and probabilistic, not deterministic “magic,” and how project managers can shift from delivery to discovery—offloading routine...

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Host: Kathleen Walch

Guest: Jürgen Eckhart

Topics covered

• AI projects
• project management
• iterative processes
• business value
• stakeholder expectations

Keywords

• AI
• project management
• iterative
• business value
• stakeholder expectations
• CPMAI
• data quality

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google, PMI-CPMAI

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