Objective

Create a practical, step-by-step tutorial demonstrating how an AI agent can reduce one of the biggest pain points in project management: collecting weekly status updates.

The audience is project managers, product managers, PMO leaders, and IT leaders who want to leverage AI to automate project communications—not replace project managers.

The tutorial should focus on how an AI agent communicates with team members through Microsoft Teams or Slack, gathers status updates conversationally, and synchronizes those updates back into the organization's project management platform.

Business Problem

One of the biggest frustrations for project managers is obtaining timely status updates.

Today the process usually looks like this:

• PM sends reminder emails or Teams messages.
• Team members are busy.
• They forget to log into Jira, Monday.com, Asana, Azure DevOps, etc.
• The PM spends hours chasing updates before the weekly status meeting.
• Project data quickly becomes stale.

The goal is to eliminate this manual chasing process.

Solution Overview

Demonstrate an AI Facilitation Agent that:

1. Connects to a project management platform.
2. Identifies work assigned to each team member.
3. Sends a Teams or Slack message automatically.