AI Foundations for Project Management

This unit introduces practical foundations for integrating generative and multimodal AI into project management workflows, focusing on ChatGPT, prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, and constraints such as words-per-interaction. Students learn to apply AI to initiating and planning phases, secure implementations, internal communications, and to assess ethical and risk considerations while preparing for advanced AI-driven project execution in subsequent units.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze how model behaviors (fine-tuning, token/words-per-interaction limits, and multimodal capabilities) influence project management workflows, deliverables, and stakeholder interactions
• Apply prompt engineering and ChatGPT techniques to create and refine project artifacts—such as agendas, planning documents, and communication templates—during the initiating and planning phases
• Demonstrate secure AI implementation strategies by integrating appropriate model choices, access controls, and data handling practices into a project management use case
• Evaluate ethical and risk implications of predictive AI in decision making and propose governance, mitigation, and continuous-monitoring strategies for responsible AI use in projects