AI-Driven Project Management

CHAPTER 10Prompt Engineering for Project Managers

Mastering prompt engineering in project management provides a good basis for understanding how project managers can use ChatGPT. Prompt engineering maintains the right mix of theory and practice to help project managers integrate ChatGPT into their operations.

What Is Prompt Engineering?

Prompt engineering is the art and science of designing, creating, and evaluating prompts that direct the ChatGPT model to obtain the desired responses. It is more than just a question or an order or instruction. It is about organizing the input so the model can best understand and respond to it. Each interaction with ChatGPT results in your input being divided into tokens, which are numerically represented with additional positional context.

Using “self-attention,” ChatGPT assesses the significance of each token. It predicts a token sequence, which is then converted into a human-readable format based on extensive training. ChatGPT, as a generative model, does not select from preset answers but forms replies based on its learned patterns.

Prompt engineering in conversational AI is about getting the right responses from these models.

Prompt Engineering in Project Management

Crafting the right prompt for ChatGPT varies based on the role you're addressing. Although there are general prompts for roles like marketers and developers, accountants, and engineers, the effectiveness of a prompt is often dependent on tailoring ChatGPT to the specific role ...