Question

How could automation change the role of project professionals?

Could this evolution help eliminate the perspective that project management professionals are not sensitive to time constraints?

Answer 1

Automation can drastically change the roles of project professionals:
•   It reduces a great amount of manual effort
•   The quickness and quality of work gets improved
•   Assigning work is also done automatically and hence wastage of productive time also gets reduced
•   The productivity of the professional increases
•   Losses due to manual errors are also fixed thereby reducing the answerability of the professionals

Yes to a certain extent this can eliminate the notion that higher management professionals do not consider deadlines seriously and are not sensitive to time constraints because manual work is reduced to a great extent and hence deadlines are auto magically met because no failure related to manual issues are encountered.