• Identify the benefits of collaboration using technology, tools and processes
• Ensure teams are able to collaborate effectively
• Create a team-focused communications and collaboration environment
• Select the right tool for the right team environment
• Evaluate your environment to determine the best methods and tools for your company, team and project

The series includes seven classes as follows:

1. Using AI and Project Management

• Identifying the role of AI for your project
• Where can AI provide value for project teams
• Writing AI prompts for specific project deliverables
• Writing follow up prompts for clarity and detail
• Using AI techniques without AI

2. Design and Collaboration Strategies for High-Performing Teams

• Crafting a collaboration strategy that works for hybrid teams
• Designing project team sites
• Using team sites
  • Teams
  • Google Meet
  • Slack
• What is the target audience?
• What artifacts / documents / collateral to you need to preserve
• Crafting a collaboration strategy that works for hybrid teams
• Why are audio conferencing tools still relevant
• What strategies to use when picking video conferencing tools
• What calendar and email strategies are effective
• What level of security is required? Dealing with corporate and personal data

3. Estimating Tools and Techniques

• Why estimating is considered a dark art
• Why estimating is challenging
• Challenges with estimates
• What estimating techniques work best when
• Where to go to find the historical estimates
• Creating and updating an estimating template
• Communicating estimates to the team
• Working with time and cost estimates
• Working with Agile estimates
• What data do you need for leveraging estimates for future projects

4. Scheduling Tools and Techniques

• Scheduling in a predictive world
• Working with the critical path
• Scheduling in an Agile world
• Working with sprints
• Working in hybrid projects
• What data is needed to leverage AI and Schedule Analytics?

5. Leveraging Templates – Risk and Issues

• Creating and updating a risk register: What to collect and when
• Developing a risk analysis strategy: What to do with the risks
• Analyzing the impact of a triggered risk
• Creating and updating an issues log
• Communicating current of state of risks and issues to the stakeholders
• What data is needed to leverage AI and a consistent approach Risk / Issues Management?

6. Resource Management and Stakeholder Engagement

• Creating and managing a stakeholder register: What you can collect and what you can’t
• Creating and managing a resource management log: RACI, RACSI, skills resources
• Creating and updating a resource forecasting log

7. Creating and Leveraging Reports, Dashboards and Charts

• Creating a Communication Management Strategy
• Identifying the target audience
• Determining the report criteria for the stakeholder
• Developing stoplight reports and trigger criteria
• Using burn-down/burn-up charts
• Creating overview charts (project, resource, tasks)