New Era Project Manager: leading change and teams in the AI era

Status: Approved edition
Language of instruction: English
Version: 2026-09-14.v1
Provider: Ettevõtluskeskus OÜ (14127891)
Edition date: 2026-09-14

5. Study workload

180 academic hours (45 minutes each); 135 clock hours (60 minutes each), as entered in the source.
60 academic hours of guided contact learning; 120 academic hours of independent learning.
Independent learning includes 93 academic hours of other independent work and 27 academic hours of reflection and outputs. These are rounded subcategories, not additional contact hours.

6. Learning outcomes

1. Use AI tools responsibly to make sense of project information, explore ideas, prepare communications, and validate their own decisions.
2. Visualize needs, value, capabilities, and dependencies in ways that enable stakeholders to discuss the situation together.
3. Select appropriate management and work methods based on the nature of the work, and justify the selection through the lens of learning needs, flow management, or planning requirements.
4. Manage stakeholder communications, distinguish facts from assumptions, and leave a clear record of decisions and next steps.
5. Develop a practical business recommendation for addressing a problem or improving flow or quality that connects the visible situation, the chosen work method, identified risks, and a small, controllable next step.

7. Syllabus and workload by learning unit

Learning unit	Content	Academic hours (45 min)	Learning outcomes
Week 0	Introduction: AI, Miro, the programme rhythm and the NovaCore simulation	18	1, 5
Week 1	The system view, value, dependencies and Wardley mapping	18	1, 2
Week 2	Choosing a way of working for the nature of the work: learning, Agile, Scrum, Kanban and conventional planning	18	2, 3
Week 3	Communication that creates value and a clear record of decisions	18	4, 5
Week 4	A3 thinking, root-cause analysis and a small countermeasure	18	3, 5
Week 5	Team health: trust, accountability, conflict and results	18	4, 5
Week 6	Flow, work in progress, lead time and bottleneck thinking	18	2, 3
Week 7	Building quality in: Definition of Done and shift-left	18	3, 5
Week 8	PMO expansion: recruiting New Era project managers in a new country	18	4, 5
Week 9	Synthesis, reflection and passing on one working method. Participants make one working method teachable and pass it on to a partner group in seven minutes.	18	1, 2, 3, 4, 5

11. Assessment of each learning outcome

Learning outcome	Assessment method	Pass criterion
1	Reflection on AI use, practical exercises and learning notes	The learner describes why AI was used, its limitations and how its output was checked. The learner does not present unchecked AI output as fact.
2	Tasks that visualise value, dependencies and the system view	The map or Miro work makes a user or stakeholder need, the main capabilities and at least one significant dependency visible.
3	Justification of the chosen way of working in NovaCore cases	The learner explains when learning and experimentation are appropriate, when flow needs to be managed and when a conventional plan is more suitable.
4	Communication and decision-record exercises	The recommendation distinguishes facts, assumptions and unknown information, and shows who can act on the decision.
5	Practical tasks involving A3, flow, work in progress, quality and the final recommendation	The recommendation starts from the visible situation, explains the business value for a stakeholder and proposes a small, verifiable next step.

12. Completion conditions

Assessment is pass / not passed against all five outcomes.

Participation in at least 70% of guided contact learning, or completion of agreed substitute assignments. Completion of reflection questionnaires for at least six programme weeks. Submission of the required practical outputs at a passing standard. A final demonstration or a consolidated presentation of outputs to the mentor and/or group.