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AI for Project Managers: Planning, Risk and Reporting

Use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot on real project work: prompts built for project tasks, charters and scope from stakeholder notes, WBS and schedules you check yourself, estimates with honest ranges, risk registers with EMV, minutes and RAID logs, status reports for each audience, user stories for agile teams, the AI in Planner, Jira and Asana, and the confidentiality rules that come first.

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Free to learn. Verifiable certificate £19 when you pass the final exam (optional, VAT included).

Level
Beginner
Modules
14
Video
16 hours
Price
Free

Outcome

What you will be able to do

Decide which project tasks AI may draft, assist with or never decide; write prompts with role, context, task, format and checks; keep confidential project data out of public tools and follow your employer's AI policy; turn stakeholder notes into a charter and scope you have traced to sources; get a WBS and schedule drafted and prove its critical path yourself; build three-point estimates with ranges; generate, score and cost a risk register with EMV; turn meetings into minutes, actions and RAID logs; set status from a written RAG rule and tune reports to each audience; refine user stories and acceptance criteria; set up an AI workspace; judge the AI features in Planner, Jira and Asana; and measure the benefit with a team playbook.

  • Sort project tasks into what AI may draft, what it may assist with and what a person must decide
  • Write prompts with role, context, task, format and checks, and save them as templates
  • Keep confidential client, commercial and personal data out of public AI tools
  • Draft charters and scope from stakeholder notes and trace every statement to a source
  • Check AI-drafted schedules for broken logic and calculate the critical path yourself
  • Build three-point estimates and a risk register costed with expected monetary value
  • Turn meetings into minutes, actions and RAID logs, and set report status from a written RAG rule
  • Use AI in agile refinement, judge the AI in Planner, Jira and Asana, and measure the benefit

Software

A free account on at least one of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Microsoft Copilot, and a spreadsheet (Excel, Google Sheets or LibreOffice Calc). ProjectLibre is optional. Microsoft 365 Copilot, Atlassian Rovo and Asana AI are shown in demonstrations, not required.

Hardware

A laptop or desktop with a browser.

Syllabus

14 modules

Each module has video lessons, notes and a short quiz. The final exam closes the course.

  1. 1Where AI helps a project manager, and where it must not decide3 lessons
  2. 2Prompt patterns for project work4 lessonsLab
  3. 3Data confidentiality and your organisation's AI policy4 lessonsLab
  4. 4Charter and scope from stakeholder notes4 lessons
  5. 5WBS and schedule drafting, then checking the logic5 lessonsLab
  6. 6Estimating with AI support, and its limits2 lessons
  7. 7Risk register: generation, scoring and response planning3 lessons
  8. 8Meetings to actions: minutes, action items and RAID logs5 lessons
  9. 9Status reports and stakeholder messages tuned by audience3 lessons
  10. 10AI in agile: backlog refinement, user stories, acceptance criteria and retrospectives6 lessons
  11. 11Your AI workspace: projects, files and custom assistants3 lessons
  12. 12AI features inside project management tools7 lessons
  13. 13Measuring the benefit, a team AI playbook, and the PMP 2026 link3 lessons
  14. 14Final assessment1 lesson

How it works

How this course works

  1. Watch the video lessonsOne module at a time, at your own pace.
  2. Take the module quizA short quiz at the end of each module shows what stuck.
  3. Keep your notesWrite in My notes beside each module and ask the trainer if you are stuck.
  4. Practise in the labOptionalTry a task from the module in the EDWartens Lab, in your browser.
  5. Sit the final examPass it once you have been through the modules.
  6. Certificate, if you want oneOptionalPaid, and only after you pass. Anyone can check it online.

EDWartens Lab

Practise this in the EDWartens Lab

Practise using AI on projects in the AI Workbench: structured prompts, personal data removed, and an AI schedule note checked for a wrong critical path and a missing dependency.

Works alongside AI for Project Managers: Planning, Risk and Reporting. The Lab is ai for industry practice in your browser: no install, no hardware, free to use. Sign in as a learner and it opens with your account.

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Levels to try with this course

Optional. Skip it whenever you like: it never blocks your progress or your certificate.

Why practise in a lab

Technical work is judged on what you can do: wiring, commissioning, finding a fault. Doing a task yourself teaches more than watching it a second time, and a lab lets you try it safely before you meet real equipment. It does not replace working on real hardware.

  • Practise safely, so a mistake costs nothing.
  • The lab checks your work like a site test, so you know when it is right.
  • Free, in your browser, with nothing to install.

Certificate

An optional certificate when you pass

Learning is free. Pass the final exam and you can have a certificate for £19, including VAT, with a number employers can check online. It records that you completed a free online course; it is not a regulated qualification or a CPD certificate.

  • Your name, the course, its study time and your final exam score
  • A unique certificate number and a QR code to its verification page
  • Issued by Wartens Ltd; add it to your LinkedIn profile in one click
  • Pay now or after you pass: it is issued the moment you pass the final

How the certificate works

Sample certificate for AI for Project Managers: Planning, Risk and Reporting

Credits

Who made the lessons

The video lessons belong to their creators. EDWartens wrote the study plan, notes, quizzes and the final exam.

  • Project Management Institute (PMI)

    the lessons on ten ways AI tools boost project results, the CREATE prompt formula for project managers, tips for using generative AI tools, building a risk management plan with AI, and how project managers can thrive with AI

  • PMPwithRay

    the full tutorial on building a project risk register with ChatGPT, and the two reviews of AI tools for project managers used in the benefit module and the final

  • Ricardo Vargas

    using ChatGPT Projects as a project management workspace

  • IT Project Managers

    what AI is actually useful for in project management and what is hype

  • Helena Liu

    writing a project charter, a project management plan and user stories with ChatGPT

  • Adriana Girdler

    what a project status report should include

  • Kevin Stratvert

    the Claude Projects tutorial and the Atlassian Rovo agents tutorial for beginners

  • Scott Brant

    the Microsoft Planner Copilot agent for project management and automating Teams meeting notes with Copilot

  • Google Workspace

    the Gemini at Work lesson on AI for project management with Gemini and the grounded notebook

  • Microsoft Copilot

    the overview of Copilot experiences in Microsoft Planner

  • Atlassian

    Rovo in five minutes and how project managers use Rovo

  • Asana

    managing projects with Asana AI and what Asana AI Studio is

  • CBT Nuggets

    whether ChatGPT is safe for work and how enterprise AI compliance works

  • 365 Data Science

    how safe your data is when you use AI tools

  • Simon Sez IT

    ChatGPT prompts for everyday project management work

  • iZenBridge Consultancy Pvt Ltd.

    the workshop on AI for product owners working with user stories

  • Tim Fairley

    project scheduling with ChatGPT

  • TeamGantt

    turning a ChatGPT plan into a live, editable Gantt chart

  • Tactiq

    meeting minutes with ChatGPT and whether Claude can take meeting notes

  • ClickUp

    generating action items from meetings with ChatGPT

  • Bulb Digital

    Microsoft 365 Copilot for project managers, used for reporting

  • Balanced PM

    the estimating experiment comparing PMI Infinity, ChatGPT and Meta AI

  • Chad Meyer

    three AI estimates of the same plans, showing how far AI estimates spread

  • Dr Sasha Nikolic

    safety and risk analysis for project work with ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini

  • Alvin the PM - Become a Certified Project Manager

    the RAID log explained

  • Sustained Agility

    AI for product owners: themes, epics and user stories

  • Techcanvass

    whether ChatGPT can write acceptance criteria for user stories

  • Shefali Jain

    real examples of AI for scrum masters and agile coaches

  • AgileWoW

    fixing sprint retrospectives with AI

  • Blazing Zebra

    project management with Claude's workspace features

  • GANTT SCHOLAR

    the breakdown of the July 2026 PMP exam content outline

  • Project Leadership Institute

    a project manager creating a WBS with ChatGPT

  • ATCPM

    a charter, WBS and Microsoft Project-ready schedule drafted in ChatGPT

  • Learn with EngrWaqas

    using ChatGPT alongside Primavera P6 for planning engineers

  • Pieter Rademeyer

    preparing a project scope statement with ChatGPT

  • Work Smart Tech

    weekly status reports with ChatGPT

  • Max Mao

    how AI is changing project management and the skills that matter

  • Johannes Jolkkonen | Funktio AI

    LLMs and data privacy in six minutes

  • GRC Times

    how to write a generative AI acceptable use policy

Questions

About this course

What is the AI for Project Managers course?
It is a free-to-learn online course that teaches project managers to use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot on real project work: charters, schedules, estimates, risk registers, minutes and RAID logs, status reports and agile backlogs. Every module pairs the AI workflow with the check that keeps facts, numbers and confidential data right.
Who is this AI for project management course for?
It is for project managers, project coordinators, planners, PMO analysts, scrum masters and engineers who run projects in construction, engineering, IT, manufacturing and services. It suits teams in the Gulf, South Asia, Africa, Europe and North America alike, because it uses free assistants and invented project data rather than one company's systems.
Do I need AI, coding or paid software to start?
No. You need to know what a charter, a schedule and a risk register are, a free account on one AI assistant and a spreadsheet. Microsoft 365 Copilot, Atlassian Rovo and Asana AI are shown in demonstrations, so you do not need a licence for any of them.
Is the course free to learn?
Yes. Every module, the notes, the worked problems, the optional project and the final assessment are free to learn. The certificate is optional.
Is it safe to paste project documents into ChatGPT?
Not confidential ones into a personal account. The course teaches four data levels, redaction that keeps the meaning, the difference between consumer and business AI accounts, and how to follow your employer's AI policy; client contracts, prices and personal data never go into a public AI tool.
How long does the course take?
About 16 hours at your own pace, of which about 9 hours is video from the Project Management Institute, project management educators and tool vendors. The optional project, an AI-assisted control pack for a warehouse system rollout, takes about 10 hours more.
What certificate do I get, and does it count for the PMP or PDUs?
You get a verifiable certificate of completion from EDWartens when you finish the modules and pass the 15-question final at 60 percent; it has a unique certificate number, a QR code and a public verification page showing the course, the modules covered and your score. It is not a PMI credential, does not award PDUs and is not PMP preparation, though it covers judgement the July 2026 PMP outline expects.
What job does this course help with?
It helps you work faster and more safely as a project manager, project coordinator, planner or PMO analyst, and gives you a portfolio piece: an AI use plan, a traced charter, a checked schedule, a costed risk register and a status report built with AI and verified by you.

The Professional Module is five live days of Siemens PLC, HMI and SCADA with an instructor, then a resume session and a CPD certificate.

See the Professional Module