--- title: "Project Management Leadership with AI — free course" description: "Govern, plan and deliver projects with predictive, agile and hybrid methods, and lead responsibly with AI" url: https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai updated: 2026-10-05 --- Business · Intermediate · 524 minutes · free · updated Sep 2026 # Project Management Leadership with AI Govern, plan and deliver projects with predictive, agile and hybrid methods, and lead responsibly with AI - **Lessons:** 21 in 6 modules - **Video lectures:** 21 lectures, 177 minutes - **Updated:** Sep 2026 ## Tools you'll use - Jira - Asana - Trello - Microsoft Excel - Python - pandas - NumPy - Microsoft 365 Copilot - ChatGPT Enterprise - Claude - Anthropic API [Start the course](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/project-governance) ## About this course A comprehensive course for current and aspiring project leaders. You will set up project governance, decision rights and tolerances, navigate the current standards (PMBOK Guide 8th edition, PRINCE2 7, ISO 21502, the Scrum Guide), choose predictive, agile or hybrid lifecycles, build business cases with measurable benefits, and plan scope, estimates, schedules, budgets, resources and procurement. You will lead execution with a clear cadence and RAID log, forecast with EVM, burnups and throughput, manage risk and quality, apply Scrum, Kanban and flow metrics, and integrate agile and predictive work. Every lesson has a narrated lecture with worked examples and a walkthrough, plus templates, Excel formulas, Python snippets and prompt templates, including an AI-assisted status reporting lab using Jira or Asana data. Preparing for PCI AI's PML-AI (Project Management Leader) credential? This course builds the foundations; see pciai.org for official exam details. Certuvo (certuvo.com) offers exam preparation for PCL-AI, PFL-AI and PML-AI. This course is independent and is not official PCI AI content. ## What you will learn - Design project governance with clear decision rights, tolerances and stage gates - Tailor PMBOK 8, PRINCE2 7, ISO 21502 and Scrum, and choose predictive, agile or hybrid lifecycles - Plan scope, estimates, schedules, budgets, resources, communications and procurement - Lead execution and forecast with RAID logs, EVM, burnups and throughput-based Monte Carlo - Apply Scrum, Kanban and flow metrics, and integrate agile and predictive delivery - Engage stakeholders, lead distributed teams and close projects with actionable lessons - Use and govern AI in project work, including AI-assisted status reporting and AI features ## Course content ### Project governance, lifecycles and the business case Set up governance and decision rights, navigate PMBOK 8, PRINCE2 7, ISO 21502 and Scrum, choose a lifecycle and build a benefits-led business case. - [Project governance and decision rights](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/project-governance): 14 min - [Standards and methods: PMBOK 8, PRINCE2 7, ISO 21502 and Scrum](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/standards-and-methods-landscape): 16 min - [Choosing a delivery lifecycle: predictive, agile or hybrid](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/choosing-a-lifecycle): 14 min - [The business case and benefits realisation](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/business-case-and-benefits): 14 min ### Planning scope, schedule, budget and resources Turn goals into scope, estimates, schedules, budgets and resource and communication plans that teams can actually execute. - [Scope, requirements and the WBS](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/scope-and-requirements): 14 min - [Estimating, scheduling and budgeting essentials](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/estimating-scheduling-budgeting): 15 min - [Resource, communication and procurement planning](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/resources-communication-procurement): 13 min ### Execution, control, risk and quality Lead day-to-day execution, monitor and control performance, manage risks and issues, and build quality in. - [Leading execution: kickoff, cadence and RAID](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/leading-execution): 13 min - [Monitoring and controlling performance](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/monitoring-and-control): 14 min - [Risk and issue management for project leaders](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/risk-and-issue-management): 14 min - [Building quality in](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/quality-management): 13 min ### Agile, Scrum, Kanban and hybrid delivery Apply Scrum and Kanban correctly, use flow metrics, and combine agile and predictive methods in hybrid delivery and at scale. - [Scrum essentials](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/scrum-essentials): 15 min - [Kanban and flow metrics](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/kanban-and-flow): 13 min - [Hybrid delivery and scaling agile](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/hybrid-and-scaling): 14 min ### Stakeholder and team leadership Engage stakeholders, lead high-performing teams through conflict and change, and close projects so lessons and benefits stick. - [Stakeholder engagement](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/stakeholder-engagement): 14 min - [Leading high-performing project teams](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/leading-high-performing-teams): 14 min - [Closing projects and learning from them](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/closing-and-lessons): 12 min ### AI-enabled project management with governance Use AI across the project lifecycle, build an AI-assisted status reporting pipeline from Jira or Asana data, govern AI use and AI features, and lead in the AI era. - [AI across the project lifecycle](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/ai-across-the-lifecycle): 14 min - [Governing AI use in project delivery](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/governing-ai-in-projects): 13 min - [Lab: AI-assisted status reporting from Jira or Asana data](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/ai-status-reporting-lab): 25 min - [Project leadership in the AI era: capstone](https://optimizeall.com/learn/project-management-leadership-with-ai/ai-era-project-leadership): 14 min ## Certificate: Project Management Leadership with AI The holder has demonstrated applied knowledge of project governance, lifecycle selection, business cases and benefits, planning and estimating, execution and control, risk and quality management, Scrum, Kanban and hybrid delivery, stakeholder and team leadership, project closure, and the responsible, governed use of AI in project management. - **Final assessment:** 25 questions, 45 minutes - **Passing score:** 80%