PER: Nuwan Assalaarachchi

PUMA Context

Overview

First author of arXiv:2601.16392 — “Toward Agentic Software Project Management: A Vision and Roadmap” (2026). This is the pioneer paper in the “agentic SPM” micro-niche and the closest vision paper to PUMA’s Stage 5 Smart PMO.

Key Contribution

The 3-level autonomy taxonomy (Assistant → Co-pilot → Junior PM Agent) provides the conceptual ladder that PUMA’s incremental design climbs (Stages 1–3 = Assistant; Stage 4 = Co-pilot; Stage 5 = Junior PM Agent).

Related notes:

• LN-Assalaarachchi-2026-AgenticSPM
• Smart-PMO-Vision — PUMA Stage 5 vision
• PN-Agentic-Science-Paradigm — Agentic science context
• PR-PUMA-Ch1-Introduction — §1.2 objectives
• MOC-LLM-Benchmarks-PM-AI — PM-AI convergence section