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Advanced Project Management: Asana, Jira, Confluence, and AI Professional Certificate

Coursera

Advanced Project Management: Asana, Jira, Confluence, and AI Professional Certificate

Advance Your Project Workflows with AI.

Optimize delivery using Asana, Jira, and AI-driven automation for professional impact.

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2 months to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 months to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Apply core project planning and tracking practices using simple templates and workflows.

  • Produce concise status reports, stakeholder one-pagers, and a decision log for clear communication.

  • Build a basic dashboard mockup and interpret key project signals using guided examples.

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Professional Certificate - 9 course series

What you'll learn

  • Recognize the five project process groups and give an example activity for each.

  • Explain core Scrum roles (Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Development Team).

  • Apply WIP limits to manage workflow on a task board.

  • Analyze timelines to find dependency bottlenecks and assess related risks.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Agile Methodology
Category: Project Management
Category: Decision Making
Category: Risk Mitigation
Category: Workflow Management
Category: Backlogs
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Waterfall Methodology
Category: Risk Analysis
Category: Project Schedules
Category: Scheduling
Category: Dependency Analysis
Category: Timelines
Category: Stakeholder Communications
Category: Agile Project Management
Category: Project Management Software
Category: Project Planning
Category: Project Management Life Cycle
Category: Stakeholder Management
Plan Projects Better: Tools, Time, and Agile Estimation

Plan Projects Better: Tools, Time, and Agile Estimation

Course 2, 10 hours

What you'll learn

  • Match common task fields to their visual representations in a PM tool.

  • Explain the purpose of story points and how they guide estimation.

  • Use scheduling tools to create and share a compact task timeline.

  • Audit a small project, apply productivity fixes, and submit before/after exports.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Project Schedules
Category: Project Planning
Category: Sprint Planning
Category: Agile Project Management
Category: Project Management Software
Category: Project Management
Category: Auditing
Category: Stakeholder Communications
Category: Timelines
Category: Productivity Software
Category: Estimation
Category: Stakeholder Management
Category: Project Estimation
Category: Collaborative Software
Category: Scheduling
Category: Dependency Analysis
Category: Productivity
Category: Communication Planning
Build Project Timelines and Track Milestones Fast

Build Project Timelines and Track Milestones Fast

Course 3, 9 hours

What you'll learn

  • Create a task timeline with dependencies and identify critical tasks.

  • Distinguish effort (person-hours) from duration (calendar time) for planning.

  • Use conditional formatting to highlight overdue or at‑risk items.

  • Rework a compact schedule, fix dependency errors, and produce a trimmed Gantt and stakeholder note.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Project Schedules
Category: Project Management
Category: Milestones (Project Management)
Category: Timelines
Category: Project Management Software
Category: Scheduling
Category: Project Estimation
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Dashboard
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Excel Formulas
Category: Dependency Analysis
Category: Stakeholder Communications
Category: Project Planning
Category: Report Writing
Category: Project Controls
Category: Diagram Design
Category: Project Documentation
Category: Spreadsheet Software
Manage Project Resources, Changes, and Performance

Manage Project Resources, Changes, and Performance

Course 4, 8 hours

What you'll learn

  • Apply critical-path impact analysis to assess scope-change effects on a schedule.

  • Build integrated hybrid plans combining predictive and iterative work.

  • Analyze resource allocation to spot over-allocations and propose mitigations.

  • Compute core EVM metrics (PV/EV/AC) for a small dataset and draft a remediation memo.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Earned Value Management
Category: Scope Management
Category: Resource Planning
Category: Resource Management
Category: Change Management
Category: Project Controls
Category: Capacity Planning
Category: Business Communication
Category: Project Scoping
Category: Waterfall Methodology
Category: Project Performance
Category: Agile Methodology
Category: Performance Metric
Category: Project Management
Category: Report Writing
Category: Project Risk Management
Category: Capacity Management
Category: Change Control
Category: Resource Utilization
Category: Dependency Analysis
Automate Agile Workflows and Project Backlogs

Automate Agile Workflows and Project Backlogs

Course 5, 10 hours

What you'll learn

  • Identify routine PM tasks that an AI assistant or automation can handle.

  • Use an automation tool to rank backlog items and justify manual adjustments.

  • Apply automations to send updates from a PM tool to communication channels.

  • Build and test cross-tool automation that enforces a WIP rule, and deliver a runbook.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Automation
Category: Process Improvement
Category: AI Workflows
Category: Workflow Management
Category: Backlogs
Category: No-Code Development
Category: Slack (Software)
Category: Project Management Software
Category: Collaborative Software
Category: Process Design
Category: Agile Methodology
Category: Process Improvement and Optimization
Category: Kanban Principles
Category: Agile Project Management
Category: Project Documentation
Category: Governance
Category: Maintainability
Category: Business Process Automation
Category: AI Enablement
AI for Project Reporting, Dashboards and Risk

AI for Project Reporting, Dashboards and Risk

Course 6, 10 hours

What you'll learn

  • Export project tasks and highlight overdue items using a repeatable workflow.

  • Populate a standard project status report template from structured data.

  • Use AI to draft and edit weekly status reports with human-in-the-loop review.

  • Create an integrated dashboard mockup to monitor key project portfolio metrics.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Dashboard Creation
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Business Reporting
Category: AI literacy
Category: Risk Management
Category: Report Writing
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Management Reporting
Category: Timelines
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Stakeholder Engagement
Category: AI Enablement
Category: Stakeholder Communications
Category: Extract, Transform, Load
Category: Data Import/Export
Category: Project Documentation
Category: Dashboard
Drive Project Success with Clear Communication

Drive Project Success with Clear Communication

Course 7, 8 hours

What you'll learn

  • Apply communication etiquette to set a channel's purpose and rules.

  • Choose appropriate channels and state use cases for each.

  • Use collaborative features to document meeting outcomes and assign actions.

  • Create a stakeholder communication plan, meeting-note template, RACI, and adoption checklist.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Communication Planning
Category: Accountability
Category: Project Documentation
Category: Communication
Category: Stakeholder Communications
Category: Governance
Category: Project Management
Category: Workflow Management
Category: Digital Communications
Category: Stakeholder Engagement
Category: Document Management
Category: Collaborative Software
Category: Taking Meeting Minutes
Category: Internal Communications
Category: Meeting Facilitation
Category: Business Communication
Category: Project Coordination
Category: Accountability Frameworks
Collaborate and Communicate for Project Excellence

Collaborate and Communicate for Project Excellence

Course 8, 11 hours

What you'll learn

  • Configure and measure the performance and response times of a collaboration tool.

  • Analyze meeting schedules to identify inefficiencies and improve productivity.

  • Evaluate collaboration latency and correlate user satisfaction with performance.

  • Produce a meeting-optimization plan, tool-evaluation brief, and standardized ceremony template.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Performance Analysis
Category: Performance Metric
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Meeting Facilitation
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Consultative Approaches
Category: Project Documentation
Category: Performance Measurement
Category: Stakeholder Communications
Category: Process Development
Category: Collaborative Software
Category: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Category: Organizational Effectiveness
Category: Internal Communications
Category: Communication Strategies
Category: Business Communication
Category: Taking Meeting Minutes
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Project Coordination
Category: Communication Planning
Portfolio, Interview, and Job Strategy

Portfolio, Interview, and Job Strategy

Course 9, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Produce three role-aligned, quantified accomplishment statements, and a targeted resume/LinkedIn summary.

  • Assemble a concise portfolio of multiple artifacts that maps project objectives to measurable outcomes.

  • Deliver structured interview responses that demonstrate decision-making, application of Asana/Jira/Confluence, and responsible GenAI use.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Portfolio Management
Category: Interviewing Skills
Category: Project Management Software
Category: Automation
Category: Agile Project Management
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Jira (Software)
Category: LinkedIn
Category: Issue Tracking
Category: Agile Methodology
Category: Dashboard

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