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Plan Ahead: AI for project managers
Six lessons on using AI assistants across a project, from the brief and plan to risks, status reports and close-out, with you keeping the estimates, ratings and decisions.
About this course
AI for project managers.
Starter · About 1 hour of learning · 6 lessons · 12 quick checks · 1 download
Who it's for
Project managers, project coordinators and anyone running projects at work who wants to use AI assistants well, in Australia, the UK, the US and elsewhere.
How it works
6 guided lessons in your browser, with worked examples, exercises and a quick check after each lesson. Progress is saved in this browser only, and you can restart at any time.
Sources we rely on
10 published sources, mostly regulators and official bodies, listed below so you can check the original guidance yourself.
By the end you can
- Identify which project tasks suit AI help and which need human judgement
- Draft a project brief from notes and test its objectives, scope and assumptions
- Break down project work with AI while keeping estimates and dates with the team
- Build a risk register with clear statements, human ratings and named owners
- Write honest status reports and lessons learned, and keep project data safe
Downloads
- Project AI prompt kit .docxPrompts and checks for the brief, task breakdown, risk register, status report, change request and lessons learned, with templates and sample notes.
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Learning time
About 1 hour of learning. May count towards your CPD or professional development; check your professional body's rules. Estimated from reading time, exercises, quick checks and downloads.
Sources
Check the originals.
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General information and training only. Courses may count towards your CPD or professional development; check your professional body's rules. We don't guarantee employment or career outcomes.
- What is project management? · Association for Project Management (UK)
- Stakeholder engagement · Association for Project Management (UK)
- How to write AI prompts for project management · Association for Project Management (UK)
- What is project management? · Project Management Institute
- Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST AI 600-1) · NIST (US)
- AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) · NIST (US)
- Artificial Intelligence Playbook for the UK Government · Government Digital Service, GOV.UK
- Staff guidance on public generative AI · Digital Transformation Agency (Australia)
- Use Copilot without transcribing or recording a Teams meeting or call · Microsoft Support
- Use “Take notes for me” in Google Meet · Google Meet Help
Publisher
Who publishes this course.
Published by trainyourself.org, a trading name of Combine TRS Pty Ltd (ABN 42 112 983 678), Brisbane, Australia.
How it's made: drafted with AI assistance from published guidance by regulators, professional bodies and software vendors, then run through automated quality checks against our course depth standard and automated source checks that match each rule to its official source, listed above. The course guide is an AI presenter and is labelled as one. Read how these courses are made.
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