Generative AI: Unleash Your Project Management Potential

Overview

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By 2030, 80 percent of project management work will be done by AI (Gartner), enabling project managers to boost efficiency by automating tasks, generating insights from vast data sets, and speeding up tasks. This course gives existing and aspiring project managers the job-ready skills in gen AI tools needed to significantly enhance their effectiveness. During the course, you ’ll explore how to use gen AI techniques and tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and DALL-E throughout the project management lifecycle. You’ll also learn about the challenges and ethical considerations of using gen AI in project management. Through hands-on labs, you’ll get valuable practical experience using ChatGPT and other gen AI tools. You’ll work on a Project Charter and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and you’ll summarize documents. Plus, you’ll complete a project to assess how gen AI can be leveraged in a project. If you’re a project manager, project coordinator, scrum master, or other related professional looking to harness the power of gen AI, this course will give you the job-ready skills you need to leap ahead. Enroll today and boost your project management career with skills employers want.

Syllabus

Project Management and Generative AI

In this module, you will learn how AI is rapidly evolving in the world of project management. AI is significantly transforming the landscape of project management. Most project managers are using generative AI to improve project management effectiveness. You will learn how AI tools and techniques have improved project management tasks' streamlining, idea generation, and overall efficiency.

Harnessing the Power of Generative AI

In this module, you will gain the essential skills to use generative AI tools for project management effectively. Additionally, you will explore and gain hands-on experience with some popular AI tools employed by project managers. The module will also discuss challenges and ethical dilemmas you may face when using generative AI. Finally, you will learn about the best practices for implementing AI in a manner that ensures transparency and fairness.

Guided Project, Final Assessment and Course Wrap up

In this module, you will showcase your project management skills. Our primary course instructor, Daniel Yeomans, will provide an overview of the key course highlights and takeaways. Additionally, you will get an opportunity to work on a practical project scenario. The module will provide a case study and guide you in applying Generative AI to create essential project documents. You will also receive a "prompt cheat sheet" for project management process groups. The module concludes by congratulating you for the next steps for your career and a thank you from our development team.