Generative AI for Project Managers
IBM via Coursera Specialization
Overview
Class Central Tips
Generative AI knowledge is now an essential skill in project management. According to Business 2 Community, 93% of companies that invest in AI for project management report a positive return on investment. Additionally, generative AI can improve the success rate of projects by around 25%.
Reflecting on the industry’s direction, IBM introduces this specialization to boost your career in project management. This specialization consisting of short self-paced courses is designed to help you kickstart your journey into applying generative AI within project management practices. This program is ideal for current and aspiring project professionals, including project managers, project coordinators, scrum masters, and those passionate about the field.
You will begin the specialization by understanding the basics of generative AI and its real-world applications. You will then learn about generative AI prompts engineering concepts and approaches, and explore commonly used prompt engineering tools including IBM watsonx Prompt Lab, Spellbook, and Dust. Finally, you will explore how to apply generative AI techniques and tools, such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and DALL-E throughout the project management lifecycle. Enhance your project management capabilities with generative AI! Enroll today and show your current and prospective employers your readiness to adeptly leverage the transformative power of generative AI in project management.
Syllabus
Course 1: Generative AI: Introduction and Applications
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Course 2: Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Basics
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Course 3: Generative AI: Unleash Your Project Management Potential
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- This course is designed for everyone, including professionals, executives, students, and enthusiasts, interested in learning about ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Basics
- This course is designed for everyone, including professionals, executives, students, and enthusiasts interested in leveraging effective ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Generative AI: Unleash Your Project Management Potential
- By 2030, 80 percent of project management work will be done by AI (Gartner), enabling project managers to boost efficiency by automating ... Enroll for free.
Courses
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This course is designed for everyone, including professionals, executives, students, and enthusiasts interested in leveraging effective prompt engineering techniques to unlock the full potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT. Prompt engineering is a process to effectively guide generative AI models and control their output to produce desired results. In this course, you will learn the techniques, approaches, and best practices for writing effective prompts. You will learn about prompt techniques like zero-shot and few-shot, which can improve the reliability and quality of large language models (LLMs). You will also explore various prompt engineering approaches like Interview Pattern, Chain-of-Thought, and Tree-of-Thought, which aim at generating precise and relevant responses. You will be introduced to commonly used prompt engineering tools like IBM watsonx Prompt Lab, Spellbook, and Dust. The hands-on labs included in the course offer an opportunity to optimize results by creating effective prompts in the IBM Generative AI Classroom. You will also hear from practitioners about the tools and approaches used in prompt engineering and the art of writing effective prompts.
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This course is designed for everyone, including professionals, executives, students, and enthusiasts, interested in learning about generative AI and leveraging its capabilities in their work and lives. This course is your first step toward understanding the capabilities of generative AI, powered by different models, including large language models (LLMs). In this course, you will learn about the fundamentals and evolution of generative AI. You will explore the capabilities of generative AI in different domains, including text, image, audio, video, virtual worlds, code, and data. You will understand the applications of generative AI across different sectors and industries. You will learn about the capabilities and features of common generative AI models and tools, such as GPT, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Synthesia. Hands-on labs, included in the course, provide an opportunity to explore the use cases of generative AI through IBM Generative AI Classroom and popular tools like ChatGPT. You will also hear from the practitioners about the capabilities, applications, and tools of generative AI.
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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.
Taught by
Antonio Cangiano, Daniel C. Yeomans, Rav Ahuja and Skill-Up EdTech Team