AI for Project Management: A Hands-On Learning Lab

Course Code
5470126

AI for Project Management is here: in this two-day, hands-on workshop, project managers learn to apply generative AI and AI assistants to planning, scheduling, risk, cost, and communications—safely and without coding. Leave with reusable prompts, ready-to-use templates, and lightweight automations for your real projects.

  • Start Date January 24
  • Time Sat 8:00am - 5:00pm (PST)
  • Duration 2 Days
  • Program Type Open-Enrollment/Public
  • Certificate Type Certificate
  • Format Live-Online
  • CEUs 1.6
  • Fees $1,200

AI for Project Management is here: in this two-day, hands-on workshop, project managers learn to apply generative AI and AI assistants to planning, scheduling, risk, cost, and communications—safely and without coding. Leave with reusable prompts, ready-to-use templates, and lightweight automations for your real projects.

AI for Project Management: A Hands-On Learning Lab

Program Experience

This two-day, live-online AI for Project Management course shows you how to apply generative AI to core PM tasks—charter and WBS, scheduling, risk, cost, and communications. With live demonstrations, guided assignments, and iterative prompt engineering, you’ll tailor workflows to your own projects. You will practice data-safe prompting, define outputs for consistency, and build a reusable prompt library, a risk-register toolkit, and an automated status-report generator that align with your organization’s standards. Runs over two consecutive Saturdays—ideal for distributed PM teams.

Benefits

Upon completion of this course,  will be able to:

  • Use GenAI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot) to draft project charters, business cases, statements of work, and stakeholder analyses
  • Prompt GenAI effectively to generate work breakdown structures (WBS), risk registers, communication plans, and task descriptions
  • Use GenAI to simulate “what-if” scenarios for project decision-making and planning
  • Use AI assistants and copilots (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, Notion AI) to support day-to-day project tracking and communication
  • Explore AI-based tools for conflict simulation, scenario generation, and collaborative problem solving
  • Develop a change management approach to introduce AI tools into existing project teams and workflows
Topics
  • Initiation & Planning: Charter drafting, objectives/KPIs, constraints/assumptions, work breakdown structure (WBS) creation, scope clarity
  • Scheduling: Task decomposition, dependencies, schedule risk identification
  • Risk & Issue Management: Driver trees, risk statements, mitigation planning, early-warning summaries
  • Cost & Quality: Estimation supports, change-impact notes, and quality checklists
  • Stakeholder & Communications: Role-aware briefings, meeting notes, decision logs, change impacts, communications plans, sentiment cues, FAQs
  • Governance & Safety: Data handling, prompt hygiene, hallucination traps, model limits, auditability
  • Dashboards & Visuals: Rapid visuals for timelines, risks, and status summaries
Who Should Attend

Designed for project managers and team leads modernizing their workflows, this course welcomes professionals curious about AI’s practical role in delivery. It’s ideal for those aiming to cut manual overhead and improve predictability, and for anyone accountable for planning, scheduling, risk management, or stakeholder reporting. 

Schedule
Course Duration Live Online (via Zoom)
AI for Project Management
16 Hours

On the following days:
January 24, 31, 2026

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Pacific Time

FAQ

Do I need AI or programming experience?
No. We focus on plain-language prompting and low/no-code workflows.

What tools are used?
We demonstrate with widely available assistants and PM apps using free-tier or trial access. You can apply the methods to your approved enterprise tools. No vendor endorsement is implied.

Will I work on my own project?
Yes—bring a real project. Prompts and templates help you adapt outputs to your context.

Are sessions recorded?
Yes, for the live-online format. For hybrid/self-paced, videos and exercises are provided.

Can this count toward PDUs?
Many participants claim PDUs under Technical/Leadership/Strategic categories. CTME provides a completion letter; check PMI’s current policies for eligibility.

Data privacy?
We teach data-safe prompting, redaction patterns, and responsible-use guidelines aligned to your organization’s policies.

Instructors

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Jen Garcia

Artificial Intelligence

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Mike Krause, PhD

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science