ChatGPT for Project Management - Leveraging AI for Success

Master Project Management with ChatGPT. Learn how to leverage ChatGPT and AI to streamline project planning, execution, and optimization, transforming how you manage and deliver successful projects.

Instructor: Dr. Jules White

Beginner Level • 4 weeks to complete at 10 hours a week • Flexible Schedule

What You'll Learn

  • How to use ChatGPT to aid project planning, tracking of execution, team meetings, and more

Skills You'll Gain

ChatGPT
Productivity
Project Implementation
Artificial Intelligence
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Project Schedules
Prompt Engineering
Project Management
Creative Thinking
Generative AI
Large Language Modeling
Risk Analysis

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Outcomes

  • Learn in-demand skills from university and industry experts
  • Master a subject or tool with hands-on projects
  • Develop a deep understanding of key concepts
  • Earn a career certificate from Vanderbilt University

3 courses series

In "ChatGPT for Project Management: Execution, Tracking, Success," you’ll learn how to harness the power of generative AI to streamline project management during the critical execution phase. This course focuses on using ChatGPT to synthesize information from various sources, such as emails and reports, into cohesive documents that accurately track project progress. You'll discover how AI can enhance scheduling, make meetings more engaging, and transform meeting transcripts into actionable work products.You’ll also explore how multimodal prompting can facilitate real-time team collaboration, enabling AI-driven brainstorming and the production of deliverables directly from your team’s interactions. The course covers advanced techniques, such as using AI to conduct "pre-work" on tasks, draft key project outputs, and assist with producing detailed documentation. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with practical, AI-powered strategies to optimize your project execution and help you succeed.

ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your smartphone, if you use them right. ChatGPT can tutor your child in math, generate a meal plan and recipes, write software applications for your business, help you improve your personal cybersecurity, and that is just in the first hour that you use it. This course will teach you how to be an expert user of these generative AI tools. The course will show amazing examples of how you can tap into these generative AI tools' emergent intelligence and reasoning, how you can use them to be more productive day to day, and give you insight into how they work.Large language models respond to instructions and questions posed by users in natural language statements, known as “prompts”. Although large language models will disrupt many fields, most users lack the skills to write effective prompts. Expert users, who understand how to write good prompts, are orders of magnitude more productive and can unlock significantly more creative uses for these tools. This course introduces students to the patterns and approaches for writing effective prompts for large language models. Anyone can take the course and the only required knowledge is basic computer usage skills, such as using a browser and accessing ChatGPT. Students will start with basic prompts and build towards writing sophisticated prompts to solve problems in any domain. By the end of the course, students will have strong prompt engineering skills and be capable of using large language models for a wide range of tasks in their job, business, personal life, and education, such as writing, summarization, game play, planning, simulation, and programming.

In "ChatGPT for Project Management: Insight, Planning, & Success," you will learn how to leverage large language models (LLMs) to enhance your project planning and strategy development. This course covers techniques for using LLMs to break down complex projects into manageable tasks, phases, goals, risks, and more. You’ll discover how to utilize AI for organizing project components into timelines, schedules, strategies, dependencies, and Gantt charts to create a cohesive plan.Explore how prompting can give you instant access to "subject matter expert" insights on any topic, and learn how to control LLM output with the template pattern for precisely formatted plans and project documents. You’ll also master the use of AI to analyze risks, assess alternative approaches, generate metrics and OKRs, and optimize your project plan. By the end of this course, you'll have the skills to integrate LLMs into your project planning process, driving insight, strategy, and success.

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