AI-Guided Project Management

By the end

What you'll build

• Use AI confidently across project planning, execution and control
• Write effective, reusable prompts for project-management tasks
• Turn vague ideas into structured charters, scope and WBS
• Build realistic schedules, Gantt charts and budgets with AI
• Track budget-vs-actual, KPIs and project performance
• Manage risks, resources and stakeholder communication with AI
• Standardise templates and automate recurring PM work
• Run a full project end-to-end using AI (capstone)

Curriculum

What's inside

11 modules · 54 lessons

1. 01

   AI as Your Project Partner

   5 lessons
   • From Answer Machine to Project Partner
   • Your AI Workspace: Context Files and Multi-Tool Choices
   • Responsible AI for PM Data: Privacy and Guardrails
   • Prompt Lab: Set Up Your AI Project Partnerprompt lab
   • AI as Your Project Partner Quizquiz
2. 02

   Prompt Engineering for Project Managers

   4 lessons
   • The Anatomy of a Strong PM Prompt
   • Prompt Patterns and a Starter Prompt Library
   • Prompt Lab: Craft a Clarify-First Kickoff Promptprompt lab
   • Prompt Engineering for PMs Quizquiz
3. 03

   Initiation: From Vague Idea to Project Charter

   4 lessons
   • The Charter: Anatomy of a Project's Birth Certificate
   • Stakeholders and the Power/Interest Grid
   • Prompt Lab: Draft a Charter for a Real Ideaprompt lab
   • Initiation Quizquiz
4. 04

   Scope & Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

   4 lessons
   • From Scope to a Complete WBS
   • WBS Dictionary, Numbering & Avoiding Scope Creep
   • Prompt Lab: Decompose a Real Project into a WBSprompt lab
   • Scope & WBS Quizquiz
5. 05

   Scheduling & Gantt Charts

   4 lessons
   • From WBS to a Sequenced Schedule
   • Critical Path, Float & Building the Gantt (Multi-Tool)
   • Prompt Lab: Build a Drop-in Ganttprompt lab
   • Scheduling & Gantt Charts Quizquiz
6. 06

   Cost Estimation & Budgeting

   5 lessons
   • Estimating Techniques: From Guess to Defensible Number
   • Building the Budget: Reserves, Baseline, and Tracking Variance
   • Prompt Lab: Build a Phased Budget with Reservesprompt lab
   • Earned Value in Plain Language: PV, EV, AC and the Ratios
   • Cost Estimation & Budgeting Quizquiz
7. 07

   Risk & Resource Management

   5 lessons
   • Risk: Identify, Analyse, Respond
   • The Living Risk Register + Resources & Levelling
   • Multi-Tool Showcase: Picking AI for Risk & Resources
   • Prompt Lab: Build a Living Risk Registerprompt lab
   • Risk & Resource Management Quizquiz
8. 08

   Monitoring & Control: KPIs and Progress

   4 lessons
   • Choosing KPIs That Actually Steer the Project
   • Dashboards, Insights and Simple Forecasting
   • Prompt Lab: Build a Status Dashboard & Forecastprompt lab
   • Monitoring & Control Quizquiz
9. 09

   Stakeholder Communication

   5 lessons
   • Audience-Tailored Updates: One Truth, Many Versions
   • Status Reports, Executive Summaries & the Notetaker Question
   • Meeting Agendas & Minutes with AI
   • Delivering Difficult Messages: Delays & Overrunsprompt lab
   • Stakeholder Communication Quizquiz
10. 10

    Standardize & Automate Your PM Workflow

    4 lessons
    • From One-Off Prompts to Reusable Templates and SOPs
    • Building a PM Prompt Library and Automating Recurring Work
    • Prompt Lab: Design a Reusable Status-Report Templateprompt lab
    • Standardize & Automate Quizquiz
11. 11

    Guided Project: Build a Complete Project Plan with AI

    10 lessons
    • Your Guided Project Brief: The Community Learning Fair
    • Step 1 - Draft the Project Charter with AIprompt lab
    • Step 2 - Build the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)prompt lab
    • Step 3 - Assign Ownership with a RACI Matrixprompt lab
    • Step 4 - Create the Schedule and Find the Critical Pathprompt lab
    • + 5 more lessons

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