ChatGPT for Project Management: Insight, Planning, & Success
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ChatGPT for Project Management: Insight, Planning, & Success
This course is part of ChatGPT for Project Management - Leveraging AI for Success Specialization
Instructor: Dr. Jules White
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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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7 videos4 readings1 assignment1 ungraded lab
7 videos•Total 63 minutes
- Welcome to Mastering ChatGPT for Project Management•2 minutes
- ChatGPT's Fundamental Capabilities for Enhancing Project Management•10 minutes
- Decomposing Projects into Tasks, Phases, and Other Parts with ChatGPT•17 minutes
- Getting More Detail into Tasks, Phases, and Parts with ChatGPT•9 minutes
- Using ChatGPT to Tap Into Subject Matter Expertise with the Persona Pattern•4 minutes
- The Persona Pattern•14 minutes
- Persona Pattern in Action for Project Management & Task Breakdown•6 minutes
4 readings•Total 32 minutes
- For Those that Have Taken Other Courses that I Teach•2 minutes
- Reading a Prompt Pattern•10 minutes
- Format of the Persona Pattern•10 minutes
- Learning More & Staying Connected•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 60 minutes
- Planning a Theme Park on a Volcano•60 minutes
1 ungraded lab•Total 60 minutes
- Practicing Decomposition & Personas•60 minutes
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10 videos1 reading1 assignment1 ungraded lab
10 videos•Total 79 minutes
- Prompt Inputs & Context for Project Management•15 minutes
- Extracting Maximum Value from Every Meeting, Document, Report, and Email•8 minutes
- Using ChatGPT to Organize Plans, Tasks, Schedules, and Other Project Items•8 minutes
- Intro to the Template Pattern •2 minutes
- Template Pattern•12 minutes
- What is Markdown•6 minutes
- Template Pattern•8 minutes
- Self-consistency, Fact Checking, & Referencing Footnotes•10 minutes
- Escape Valves in Prompts•4 minutes
- More Advanced Markdown Templates•7 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Format of the Template Pattern•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 120 minutes
- Building a Project Plan for an Ancient Wonder of the World•120 minutes
1 ungraded lab•Total 60 minutes
- Practicing Organizing with an LLM•60 minutes
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6 videos1 assignment
6 videos•Total 46 minutes
- Using ChatGPT to Analyze Project Management Plans, Tasks, Artifacts, etc.•9 minutes
- Exploiting Generation•5 minutes
- Five Ways to Solve the Problem•9 minutes
- Generation Approaches•7 minutes
- Generating Assessment Metrics•5 minutes
- Putting it All Together•11 minutes
1 assignment•Total 75 minutes
- Think More•75 minutes
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Reviewed on Aug 19, 2025
Interesting and good instruction on expanding the use of ChatGPT, Jules is a great presenter
Reviewed on Jul 13, 2025
very informative for an all around general approach to using LLM in your work and in your daily life.
Reviewed on Jan 6, 2025
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