Learn AI + Project Management with Phoebe

Two tracks for people who actually have to deliver

A leader track for heads of delivery and PMO leads - where AI helps, where it quietly wrecks trust, and how to govern it without slowing anything down. And a PM track that builds the whole delivery toolkit with Claude sitting next to you: charter, milestones, dependencies, risk register, status report, escalations, and a weekly pack that runs itself. One running programme carries all sixteen sessions. Around half of project professionals say AI already touches their work, while only about a fifth have real hands-on experience. This closes that gap - without ever letting the model commit a date.

2tracks
16sessions
45min per session
1running programme

The leader track 🤝 · for heads of delivery, PMO leads & sponsors · 6 x 45 min · no tooling required

Thinking mode: what AI actually changes about delivery, what it must never touch, how to review an AI-drafted plan without reading every line, and how to roll it out to a PMO with a quality bar instead of a vibe. Each session ends with the questions to ask your PMs.

🧭 Leader 1 · easy

What AI changes about delivery

Split the PM week into artifact labour and judgment. What genuinely moves, what does not, and PMI's line on human oversight.

▶ Leaders start here 🔐 Leader 2 · easy

The governed setup

Workspaces, connectors and permissions - and the one-page policy for what never goes into a prompt.

Policy exercise 📐 Leader 3 · medium

Plans you can trust

The review rubric for an AI-drafted plan: invented dates, orphan owners, missing gates, dependencies nobody confirmed.

Review rubric ⚠️ Leader 4 · medium

Risk, dependencies & escalation

Early-warning signals worth trusting, the hard gates AI keeps smoothing over, and an escalation that survives a steerco.

Escalation drill 📊 Leader 5 · deciding

The reporting cadence

A weekly rhythm a machine can maintain and a human can defend - plus the six checks that make a report actionable.

Cadence design 🚀 Leader 6 · deciding

Rolling it out to a PMO

Pilot design, the quality bar, what to measure, and how to get adoption from PMs who have been burned before.

Rollout plan

The PM track 🛠️ · for PMs, TPMs & delivery leads · 10 x 45 min · one running programme, no code

Hands on the real artifacts, week by week, on the Northwind data platform programme: workspace, charter, milestones, dependencies, risk register, the status report (with a live simulator), meeting-to-actions, escalations, the connected weekly pack, and a full delivery week as a capstone.

🗂️ PM 1 · easy

Your programme workspace

One workspace per programme, the six-document context pack, and the house rules you will reuse for years.

▶ PMs start here 📜 PM 2 · medium

Mandate to charter

A vague sponsor email becomes a scoped charter: context, priorities, non-goals, and the questions you must ask back.

Charter draft 🪜 PM 3 · medium

Milestone architecture & WBS

Ladder M1-M6 with real gate criteria, decompose the work, and get the dates from the team - never from the model.

Milestone table 🔗 PM 4 · hands-on

Dependencies & critical path

Extract dependencies from raw meeting notes, find the hard gate everyone forgot, and render the map in Mermaid.

Dependency map 🎲 PM 5 · medium

A risk register that maintains itself

Probability x impact, named triggers and owners, and a weekly refresh that surfaces what actually moved.

Live RAID log 📈 PM 6 · medium

The status report

Watch a fluent, empty report climb from 24 to 100 as you feed it the six things a steerco actually needs.

★ interactive: pm-live 🗒️ PM 7 · easy

Meetings to actions

Turn a messy steerco into decisions, actions and owners - and keep a decision log that stops the relitigating.

Decision log 🗣️ PM 8 · medium

Stakeholders, escalations & hard messages

One truth, three audiences. Draft the escalation that gets a decision, and the bad-news message you can stand behind.

Escalation draft ⚙️ PM 9 · hands-on

Connect the system

Connectors to Jira, Notion and Sheets, your house rules as a reusable skill, and a weekly pack that runs on schedule.

Weekly pack 🏁 PM 10 · hardest

Capstone: one full delivery week

Monday to Friday of Northwind's recovery week, end to end - and the list of things you never delegate.

Full week run
easy - everyone medium hands-on / deciding hardest
The three rails this whole course runs on: context beats prompting - a weak draft means a missing document, not a weak prompt. The dates come from the team - AI drafts the structure of a plan, never the commitments. And a named human signs it - every artifact that leaves the workspace has one accountable person who read it. Northwind is a fictional retailer and every number in it is invented.

Choose your path 🗺️

Two doors, one programme. Leaders set the guardrails and the quality bar; PMs build the artifacts behind them.

🤝 Leader (no tooling) a1→ a2→ a3→ a4→ a5→ a6
🛠️ PM (the toolkit) b1→ b2→ b3→ b4→ b5→ b6→ b7→ b8→ b9→ b10
🌱 Curious follower (a taste) a1→ b1→ b6
🚀 Full journey (govern AND deliver) a1-a6→ b1-b10

The knowledge map 🧠

Both tracks at a glance - hover a session to spotlight its concepts, click any node to jump in.