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MCE Week: Project Management & Essentials of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Establish a strong base in project management skills and tools to enhance your career. Understand AI’s opportunities, risks, and rewards, and implement an AI strategy in your organization.

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The Key Issues

You have been assigned to manage a project or are contributing as a team member. You may have heard or read a lot about project management—but how do you structure a project effectively, plan it well, and stay in control during implementation? Can you clearly define and manage the scope, schedule, cost, and quality of your projects?
At the same time, artificial intelligence is becoming part of everyday business discussions. But what does it really mean for you as a manager? How can you start using AI in your daily work? What are its limits, and how do you make ethical decisions when AI is involved?

Project management skills

Managing the workloads

Change management

Key Competences​

AI and Ethical decisions

Impact of AI on people

CVP
and AI

The Right Programme for You

You are a manager and have already worked on projects. You want to take your skills to the next level—delivering projects on time and on budget, using the right tools, and at the same time understanding how AI is changing your role and decision-making.

  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

Use the SMART model to define project requirements

Develop your own Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Learn what AI can do now and, in the future, and its potential risks

Understand the security implications of managing data and technology

Develop a specific personal plan for applying what you learn.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Ensure that your projects are set up for success from the start
  • Learn the basics for effectively gathering and documenting requirements
  • Understand the role of the project manager, business analyst, and others in managing projects
  • Develop an integrated project plan including realistic scope, schedules, budgets, and risks—and turn that plan into successful action
  • Learn how to effectively track and report on project progress
  • Identify the elements of administrative and contractual project closure procedures
  • Understand What AI is and how it’s already part of your work and personal life.
  • Increase your awareness of the future possibilities of generative AI.
  • Explore the potential impact of AI on your organization—both pro and con.
  • Increase your credibility with data-driven decisions and skill development plans.
  • Explore AI: The potential rewards, pitfalls and the crucial need for ethics and governance.
  • Craft a vision for the future and begin building your own AI Action Plan.

Programme Details

Project Management & Essentials of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a highly interactive programme with exercises and role plays

Fifteen Programme Modules

  • Define the basic project management framework
  • Describe key project management terminology
  • Explain the triple constraints (project triangle)
  • Differentiate between operations and projects
  • Describe project management in a business context
  • Describe how projects are initiated
  • Describe the difference between project requirements and product requirements
  • Describe the purpose and content of the project charter
  • Describe the purpose and content of the product requirements document
  • Use the smart model when writing requirements
  • Identify information-gathering techniques
  • Discuss the purpose of a kick-off meeting
  • Develop a work breakdown structure (WBS)
  • Discuss guidelines for making better estimates
  • Explain the use of three-point estimates
  • Describe task dependencies
  • Identify the sequence of tasks via precedence diagramming
  • Develop the project schedule
  • Determine the personnel costs needed for the success of the project
  • Determine the expense costs needed for the success of the project
  • Differentiate between bottom-up and top-down cost budget planning, and state which is more appropriate for different situations
  • Create the project communications plan
  • Describe the project risk management processes
  • Describe the purpose of the project procurement plan
  • Discuss the purpose of reserves
  • Create a project status report
  • Describe the key elements required to determine project health
  • Describe how to run an effective project status meeting
  • Describe the change management process
  • Identify the elements of both administrative and contractual project closure procedures
  • Describe the different ways that projects can be terminated
  • Explain the importance of a repository and lessons learned
  • Define Artificial Intelligence and Discuss Examples.
  • Recognize what’s underneath Chat GPT and how it works.
  • Understand AI Terminology including “Machine Learning”, “Predictive Modeling”, and Algorithms.
  • Articulate components of AI Solutions and Techniques We Use for Business Problems.
  • Explore Use Cases: Job Titles/Categories, Situations and Opportunities.
  • Recognize AI Trends and Emerging Applications and Capabilities
  • Explore Four Business Contexts and the Types of AI Solutions Used to Address Them.
  • Understand the Goals and Activities that are Included in Typical AI Adoption Journeys.
  • Recognize the People Side of AI Adoption and How Jobs May or Will Change.
  • Appreciate the Risks and Rewards of AI Adoption
  • Recognize the Business Environment and Conditions Required for AI Success.
  • Acknowledge the Essential Skills Needed to Participate in AI Initiatives.
  • Assess Your Skills and Identify Success Factors You Can Leverage When Adopting AI.
  • Consider Options for Filling Individual and Team AI Skill Gaps
  • Identify Business Problems That May Have an AI Solution.
  • Develop an Algorithm and Identify the Data Needed to Create an AI Solution.
  • Study Relatable Scenarios to Understand Customer Value Propositions in AI.
  • Identify What the User Experience (UX) Has to Do With AI.
  • Complete an AI Solution Design and Present the Business Case
  • Recognize AI Integration as a Change Initiatives: Aligning with Strategic Objectives.
  • Articulate the Crucial Need for Organizations to Establish AI Governance Oversight of AI.
  • Appreciate the Need for Humans to Test Solutions to Ensure They Work as Intended.
  • See the Broad Scope of AI Governance: Going Above and Beyond Existing Governance.
  • Understand Regulatory Agencies and the Law That’s Rapidly Addressing Guardrails on the Ethical and Legal Use of AI.
  • Choose What You Can Do, Whether Individual Contributor, Manager or Leader, to Get Started With AI.
  • Use The ENGAGE Framework for AI Adoption to Build a “Getting Started” Action Plan.
  • Share the Actions You Will Take First.
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