The what, why and how of AI governance in projects with Emanuela Giangregorio
Key takeaways
AI governance in projects becomes clearer when it is treated as a practical discipline for decision-making, risk control and responsible delivery.
- AI governance in projects is often poorly understood, which can lead to weak oversight and inconsistent decisions.
- Practical frameworks such as AIPGF help organisations apply AI more ethically, effectively and efficiently.
- AI governance can work alongside established methods such as PRINCE2, Agile and PMBOK rather than replacing them.
- Good practice supports those delivering change by clarifying responsibilities, controls and key risks.
- Structured training helps teams embed responsible AI use into real project and programme environments.
Introduction
This webinar, developed with APMG International, explores why AI governance in projects is often poorly understood and what effective practice looks like. It offers practical guidance for people who are responsible for delivering change and managing risk. Whether you are starting to use AI in projects or reviewing existing approaches, it will help you think more clearly about what needs to be in place.
Transcript®
Here’s the full transcript of the webinar.Foundation
00:00:00 Sevcan Valiyeva Foundation & Practitioner: Feel free to introduce yourself and tell us where you come from.Workshops
00:00:03 Sevcan Valiyeva Introduction to Project Management: I’m just going to give a few minutes while people enter.Project Management Essentials
00:00:21 Sevcan Valiyeva Writing Business Cases: I can actually see some regular, so that’s always nice.AI in Project Management
00:01:11 Sevcan Valiyeva : Someone joined from the UK.
00:01:16 Emanuela Giangregorio ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI): Looks like you’ve got a good turnout here today, Sevcan.BCS AI
00:01:19 Sevcan Valiyeva Foundation: Yeah, definitely.AI Project Governance Framework (AIPGF)
00:01:33 Sevcan Valiyeva Foundation: Dubai.Practitioner
00:01:37 Sevcan Valiyeva Workshops: Okay, so just to give a bit of a background before I head over to Emanuela, I’m Sevcan. I’m the marketing executive for Knowledge Train.AI in Project Management
00:01:44 Sevcan Valiyeva AI Learning Library (AILL)™: We have Emanuela with us. She is the creator of AI project governance framework. We also have Alex with us. He is from APMG International.AGILE
00:01:55 Sevcan Valiyeva : So both, thank you so much for joining. Really appreciate it.AgilePM
00:02:00 Sevcan Valiyeva Practitioner: Just a few things before.PRINCE2
00:02:02 Sevcan Valiyeva ®: So this session will be recorded. That is probably the most popular question I always get. Agile
00:02:07 Sevcan Valiyeva Foundation: You will receive the recording, you will receive the audio version of the webinar alongside the transcription and the PDF version of the slides all in your inbox, most probably next week.Practitioner
00:02:19 Sevcan Valiyeva Scrum: If you don’t, please e-mail me and I’ll make sure that you receive it.Scrum Essentials
00:02:24 Sevcan Valiyeva Scrum Master: So Emanuela, off to you.Scrum Product Owner
00:02:27 Emanuela Giangregorio AgileBA: Great, thanks very much for having me here, Knowledge Train and Sevcan particularly, and it’s great to have Alex joining as well.®
00:02:35 Emanuela Giangregorio – Agile Business Analysis: So in terms of the agenda, what we’re going to be covering today is I’ll just tell you a little bit about me, the scheme owner, why the AI project governance framework is important now, an overview of the framework, who’s it for, and then a little bit about the certification scheme and Sevcan, you can come in there as well.Foundation
00:02:54 Emanuela Giangregorio Foundation & Practitioner
Business solutions: I know Brian in the chat, he said that they’re using Copilot.
00:05:20 Alex Barbara _blank: I think we also use a little bit of Copilot as well.Tools
00:05:23 Alex Barbara About: So I mean, that is technically AI assistance, right?_blank
00:05:26 Emanuela Giangregorio Blog: Yeah, absolutely.
00:05:27 Emanuela Giangregorio EXPLORE SUBJECTS: And I think you guys can put in the chat box as well, maybe which tools you are using.Select your preferred subject.
00:05:32 Emanuela Giangregorio : And I know many of my clients, maybe that’s true for some of you as well, the company only allows you to use Copilot because the idea is that it’s safer.PROJECT MANAGEMENT QUALIFICATIONS & WORKSHOPS
00:05:40 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your preferred qualification or workshop.: Is that the same for you guys, Alex?
00:05:42 Alex Barbara PRINCE2 COURSES: Yeah, that’s exactly right.Select your preferred training course below:
00:05:43 Alex Barbara : We use it primarily because it’s the safer one to use.APM COURSES
00:05:48 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your preferred training course below:: Yeah.
00:05:49 Emanuela Giangregorio AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSES: These other tools are also bringing in more safety measures. And the problem that I’m seeing is some organisations are saying you can only use a particular tool.Select your preferred training course below:
00:05:58 Emanuela Giangregorio : And if that tool doesn’t have the full ability to assist in ways that maybe some of the other tools are able to provide some assistance, one of two things is happening or both.PRINCE2 AGILE COURSES
00:06:09 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your preferred training course below:: In fact, one thing that happens is maybe people are not using the tool that much because you know what, it’s just quick.
00:06:13 Emanuela Giangregorio BETTER BUSINESS CASES COURSES: If I do it myself, the tool’s not that great.Select your preferred training course below:
00:06:16 Emanuela Giangregorio : And then the other thing is this thing called shadow AI.P3O COURSES
00:06:19 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your preferred training course below:: Do you know what shadow AI is?
00:06:20 Alex Barbara WORKSHOPS: I haven’t heard of that one though.Select your preferred workshop below:
00:06:23 Emanuela Giangregorio : Yeah, shadow AI is basically where people are using tools that are not allowed.AGILE QUALIFICATIONS
00:06:27 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your preferred qualification.: So for example, if the company says you can only use Copilot, and that’s the official line, and instead people are actually using Claude or ChatGPT because they feel they’re getting better results, that’s called shadow AI.
00:06:38 Emanuela Giangregorio AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSES: What that means is the company doesn’t know what people are using and governance becomes even more difficult then.Select your preferred training course below:
00:06:43 Alex Barbara : Interesting.PRINCE2 AGILE COURSES
00:06:44 Alex Barbara Select your preferred training course below:: OK, didn’t know that.
00:06:46 Emanuela Giangregorio SCRUM COURSES: Right.Select your preferred training course below:
00:06:46 Emanuela Giangregorio : So that’s kind of leading into, why do we need the AI project governance framework now?AGILE BUSINESS ANALYSIS COURSES
00:06:52 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your preferred training course below:: There are already quite a lot of certifications in the AI space.
00:06:58 Emanuela Giangregorio BUSINESS ANALYSIS QUALIFICATIONS: I think, Alex, you’re familiar with the two about AI-driven project manager and what’s the other one?Select your preferred qualification.
00:07:04 Alex Barbara : Yeah, there’s two that we, I mean, there’s a few there, but two that I primarily have had some work with. So that’s AI-driven project manager, which is that’s a one-day certification that just trains project managers how to apply AI tools. The other one that I’ve also worked with is the artificial intelligence practitioner.BCS BUSINESS ANALYSIS COURSES
00:07:23 Alex Barbara Select your preferred training course below:: Thank you for the little arrow there.
00:07:24 Alex Barbara AGILE BUSINESS ANALYSIS COURSES: And that’s a little bit different.Select your preferred training course below:
00:07:26 Alex Barbara : That’s a self-paced certification and that helps build really a broader use of AI.CHANGE MANAGEMENT QUALIFICATIONS
00:07:31 Alex Barbara Select your preferred qualification.: So these two though, however, I would say completely different to AIPGF, wouldn’t you, Manny?
00:07:37 Emanuela Giangregorio APMG CHANGE MANAGEMENT COURSES: Absolutely, yeah.Select your preferred training course below:
00:07:37 Emanuela Giangregorio : So these tools are like how to use AI and where the AIPGF comes in is how to ensure that it’s governed in a project context.PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT QUALIFICATIONS
00:07:47 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your preferred qualification.: So there are, you know, international standards around AI governance. There is the EU AI Act in America. There’s the NIST, the North American, basically a risk management framework.
00:08:00 Emanuela Giangregorio MSP COURSES: So there’s a lot of overarching frameworks, standards, regulations. The EU AI Act is, you know, by law needs to be enforced. But they’re also very much at the enterprise level. And until I built the AI project governance framework, there was nothing that shows projects, people like PMOs and project managers, how to practically activate what those things are saying at the higher level within projects and programs.Select your preferred training course below:
00:08:27 Emanuela Giangregorio : So that’s essentially really what it’s aiming to do. And it’s important because, you know, if you all think about it, organisations have their strategic priorities that they need to deliver. And senior managers are accountable to the board for delivering those strategic priorities. Most often the organisation’s strategy is executed through projects and programs.PMI COURSES
00:08:48 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your preferred training course below:: So that’s where it’s all happening. And so if projects and programs are using AI, and most often, it’s great providing fantastic assistance, but if it’s not well governed, that’s where risks creep in. And that’s really why it’s very, very important to get it right.
00:09:04 Emanuela Giangregorio PMI COURSES: We also know that AI adoption is increasing rapidly. Not only AI adoption, but AI automation.Select your preferred training course below:
00:09:12 Emanuela Giangregorio : You know, back in 2024, I only got back as far as 24 even, you know, there were things that, you know, ChatGPT and the tools that maybe you were playing with couldn’t generate slides.PRINCE2 COURSES
00:09:23 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your preferred training course below:: Now they can do that. There was so much that the tools couldn’t do. And back in 24 and 25, new models were being released perhaps every month, every quarter, then every month. Now, if you’re paying attention to what’s going on, new models are released every week. And it’s really difficult to keep up to date.
00:09:40 Emanuela Giangregorio APM COURSES: So not only new models, but new capabilities within the models that you might be using. So the level of adoption is increasing. The level of complexity and also automation is increasing as well. And you might have heard of agentic AI, which is where agents are kind of doing the work and delegating to other agents too. So automation increases as well.Select your preferred training course below:
00:10:01 Emanuela Giangregorio : And governance of how AI is used in projects is getting more attention at board level because it’s becoming an important thing where boards need to show that they are able to provide evidence of the governance. And so really this is what the AI project evidence framework aims to do.AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSES
00:10:19 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your preferred training course below:: Now, people sometimes do ask me what is the difference between, for example, the ISO standard, the framework, and then also things like the project management, the AI project management training that Alex mentioned.
00:10:32 Emanuela Giangregorio PRINCE2 AGILE COURSES: So you can have, you can learn how to use AI in projects, right?Select your preferred training course below:
00:10:36 Emanuela Giangregorio : So think of standards and also regulations, but standards like the ISO 24001, like think of it as a global best practice standard providing rules for any means of transportation. So these are the rules for any means of transportation, whether it’s planes, automobiles, drones, what’s happened to cars, ships and all these different things. These are the rules for any means of transportation.BUSINESS CASE COURSES
00:11:02 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your preferred training course below:: Think of the AI project governance framework as basically the guidance on how to drive well on the roads, right? That’s really what it is. So it’s just about how the road, the rules for the road.
00:11:16 Emanuela Giangregorio AGILE COURSES: Whereas training on how to use AI is basically at the car level. So we’ve got all these different cars, in other words, all these different AIs. How do you drive the cars? And the difficulty there is the cars keep changing or the car ‘s ability keeps on upscaling. So you kind of have to refresh yourself each time you learn how to use one of these cars, whether it’s Claude or ChatGPT, etc.Select your self-paced training course topic.
00:11:38 Emanuela Giangregorio : The AI project governance framework is a fairly reasonable set of guidance around those rules essentially. And it’s not going to change. In fact, the way it was built was designed to ensure that it can actually be adaptable as the technologies change as well.AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSES
00:11:55 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your preferred training course below:: Does that analogy make sense, Alex?
00:11:57 Emanuela Giangregorio PRINCE2 AGILE COURSES: Maybe if you can.Select your preferred training course below:
00:11:58 Alex Barbara : I like that.SCRUM COURSES
00:11:59 Alex Barbara Select your preferred training course below:: Yeah, no, I like that.
00:11:59 Alex Barbara LEAN SIX SIGMA COURSES: I think how we also explained it here was the other, the AI tools that we already have or that we’re working with on certifications is how to use AI.Select your preferred training course below:
00:12:08 Alex Barbara : AIPGF is what you’re using AI already, but how do you add the layer of governance over the top of it?BUSINESS ANALYST COURSES
00:12:14 Alex Barbara Select your self-paced training course topic.: That’s why I think it’s just so different to what we’ve already got in the portfolio as well.
00:12:18 Emanuela Giangregorio BCS BUSINESS ANALYST COURSES: Yeah, that’s a really good summary.Select your preferred training course below:
00:12:20 Emanuela Giangregorio : So I mentioned the EU AI Act. There’s also standards and more regulation is happening.CHANGE MANAGEMENT COURSES
00:12:27 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your self-paced training course topic.: Also evidence of AI governance in project management is and will be a competitive differentiator, not only against competitor organisations, but also organisations are competing for the best talent.
00:12:40 Emanuela Giangregorio APMG CHANGE MANAGEMENT COURSES: And so people want to know that they are going to be working in a forward-thinking organisation where there are career paths and looking at other ways, better ways of working.Select your preferred training course below:
00:12:49 Emanuela Giangregorio : And it’s great to see now as well when I first launched the framework in January 2025, I didn’t see jobs that sort of put project management and governance together.PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT COURSES
00:12:59 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your self-paced training course topic.: And now, I don’t know if you can see on the slide, it’s a bit small, but there’s, you know, there are jobs like this one here, which is the AI governance and project management specialist. So people can already start thinking about, if you want to stay ahead in your career in project management, or if you want to pivot and specialise, then it provides you the opportunity to do that.
00:13:20 Alex Barbara
: And no, we’d be in trouble.Select your preferred qualification.
00:13:40 Alex Barbara : OK, let’s have a look.ITIL COURSES
00:13:43 Alex Barbara Select your preferred training course below:: There’s quite a lot of we’d be in trouble there.
00:13:49 Emanuela Giangregorio LEARNING LIBRARIES: Yeah, and bear in mind the polls, these are confidential as in we don’t get to see who’s.Select your preferred training course topic.
00:13:54 Alex Barbara : Yeah, Interesting though to see, isn’t it?AI QUALIFICATIONS & WORKSHOPS
00:13:57 Alex Barbara Select your preferred qualification or workshop.: Interesting.
00:13:58 Emanuela Giangregorio AIPGF COURSES: Yeah, you know,Select your preferred training course below:
00:14:00 Emanuela Giangregorio : I’m not surprised because when I speak to my clients, that’s exactly now hosted roundtables and all these things. And when I ask this question, this seems to come, this seems to be generally the profile.BCS AI COURSES
00:14:11 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your preferred training course below:: Hey, it’s great to see, definitely we would pass.
00:14:14 Emanuela Giangregorio AIPGF COURSES: That’s wonderful.Select your preferred training course below:
00:14:16 Emanuela Giangregorio : Maybe the person or the people in the chat box could indicate like what type of organisation it is, because that’s really wonderful to see that people are starting to take this seriously.AI WORKSHOPS
00:14:26 Emanuela Giangregorio Select your preferred workshop below:: We’ve got 42% partially, there would be some findings and then about 1/3, just less than 1/3, now we’d be in trouble.
00:14:35 Emanuela Giangregorio HOUSE OF PMO ESSENTIALS COURSES: So the good thing is that the governance gap is starting to close, right?Select your preferred training course below:
00:14:40 Emanuela Giangregorio : But if you put the partially and the not, so the 30 and the 40 together, over 70% really kind of aren’t able to kind of demonstrate it to the extent that they should. And it’s because the mechanisms aren’t always there, right? It’s really important to understand how to do that.Knowledge Train is a PRINCE2 Accredited Training Organization.
00:14:59 Emanuela Giangregorio : Also, people don’t have time sometimes, you know, people work in very lean teams, whether it’s PMO or project teams and so on.Knowledge Train is an AgilePM Accredited Training Organization.
00:15:06 Emanuela Giangregorio : And, you know, some people think, okay, well, the fact that we have an AI policy at enterprise level and the fact that we can only use Copilot means the governance box is ticked.Knowledge Train is a PRINCE2 Agile Accredited Training Organization.
00:15:15 Emanuela Giangregorio : But that’s not the case at all, as we know.Knowledge Train is a Better Business Cases Accredited Training Organization.
00:15:21 Alex Barbara : Okay, interesting.Knowledge Train is a P3O Accredited Training Organization.
00:15:22 Alex Barbara : There we go.Knowledge Train is an AgilePM Accredited Training Organization.
00:15:24 Emanuela Giangregorio : Shall we go then into an overview of the framework?Knowledge Train is a PRINCE2 Agile Accredited Training Organization.
00:15:27 Emanuela Giangregorio : So first of all, people think that AI governance is just about controlling access. It’s more than that, right? If you think about the risks, what can go wrong?Knowledge Train is an Agile BA Accredited Training Organization.
00:15:39 Emanuela Giangregorio : Of course, there are risks relating to getting, the AIs getting access to data that they shouldn’t or this confidential data being sort of exposed or manipulated, etc.BCS accredited training partner for Business Analysis.
00:15:49 Emanuela Giangregorio : There’s also those types of risks. There are risks relating to incorrect decisions being made or poor quality deliverables being sort of that go out to clients or to senior managers in organisations, etc. But also a risk is to do with inefficiency.Knowledge Train is an Agile BA Accredited Training Organization.
00:16:05 Emanuela Giangregorio : In other words, we’re wasting time.Knowledge Train is a Change Management Accredited Training Organization.
00:16:07 Emanuela Giangregorio : And so the aim is to use AI to help improve project productivity. But if it’s actually detracting from that, then that’s a risk to the project too.Knowledge Train is an MSP Accredited Training Organization.
00:16:15 Emanuela Giangregorio : So remember the three things. AI governance, the scope of AI governance is about ethical use, effective use and efficient use. And these three together in any framework really should kind of make sure that we can provide assurance to senior managers, auditors and so on that this is in place.Knowledge Train is a PRINCE2 Accredited Training Organization.
00:16:34 Emanuela Giangregorio : So the framework is built on a foundation of three key principles. And the first one, of course, no surprise being human centricity. And what that means is regardless of the degree of AI automation, and AI independence even, regardless of that degree, there always needs to be some sort of human checking.Knowledge Train is an AgilePM Accredited Training Organization.
00:16:56 Emanuela Giangregorio : So that you might have heard of the human in the loop rule, always the human in the loop rule stays, right?Knowledge Train is a PRINCE2 Agile Accredited Training Organization.
00:17:01 Emanuela Giangregorio : So again, in some situations, we have lots of granular checks, but as these tools become more agentic and start doing more and more, you know, building complete project schedules and raid logs, etc., and updating things in real time,Knowledge Train is a Better Business Cases Accredited Training Organization.
00:17:17 Emanuela Giangregorio : The risk is always that people get less involved because they’re busy focusing on other things, but we need to make sure that we check everything as well.Knowledge Train is an AgilePM Accredited Training Organization.
00:17:24 Emanuela Giangregorio : So human centricity, transparency, and this is about making sure that if we are challenged, back to the previous poll question that Alex had there, but if we are challenged, we are able to show how a decision was made, how a deliverable was created, who checked what, etc. And so that’s really important that we have that audit trail available.Knowledge Train is a PRINCE2 Agile Accredited Training Organization.
00:17:43 Emanuela Giangregorio : There’s something called explainable AI, XAI, and some of the AI tools have that built in.Knowledge Train is a Lean Six Sigma Accredited Training Organization.
00:17:48 Emanuela Giangregorio : So their creators, some of the frontier labs like Anthropic who have Claude, build that in. So you can actually see like its thought process and you can actually have that as a record if you need to keep it in terms of how it got to a decision or a particular rationale.BCS accredited training partner for Business Analysis.
00:18:02 Emanuela Giangregorio : And then the third principle is adaptability. And this is really for the framework’s design. So it is human-centric, it’s building in the transparency, but also needs to be adaptable to the organisation context.Knowledge Train is a Change Management Accredited Training Organization.
00:18:15 Emanuela Giangregorio : So some organisations have a small number of projects, others have many projects. Some organisations are still in the early stages of standardising their project governance. In other words, having a standard set of project templates and tools that people can use. Others are way down the line.Knowledge Train is an MSP Accredited Training Organization.
00:18:31 Emanuela Giangregorio : They’ve got very mature project processes. So the organisation context needs to be tailored to that. Also tailored to the degree of AI adoption, as I said, the degree of AI automation, but also the degree of maturity regarding AI governance.AXELOS Peoplecert accredited training organisation for ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library).
00:18:46 Emanuela Giangregorio : So the person or the people that said, actually, we would be fine if we were audited, that means you have a high level of AI governance maturity.AXELOS Peoplecert accredited training organisation for ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library).
00:18:53 Emanuela Giangregorio : Those on the other end have a low level of AI governance maturity, which means more needs to be done to put these things into place.Knowledge Train is an AIPGF Accredited Training Organization.
00:19:01 Emanuela Giangregorio : And so the framework is a combination of mindset and method. The mindset part is the principles. It has five core values and then the core behaviors that help teams understand what’s important. Whereas the method part is we have 3 life cycle stages, foundation, activation, and evaluation, and these map onto any existing project management approach that you have. And in each of those stages, we have aims, activities and deliverables.Knowledge Train is an AIPGF Accredited Training Organization.
00:19:32 Emanuela Giangregorio : So actual templates that show teams what you can bring in to your project process to help bring in the governance for that.BCS accredited training partner for Business Analysis.
00:19:40 Emanuela Giangregorio : And this slide is really just showing a mapping very simply to, for example, iterative delivery methods like Agile, where, you know, how does the framework map to that, where you have more iterative delivery compared to some maybe more waterfall style approaches, PRINCE2, PMBOKKnowledge Train is a Scrum Accredited Training Organization.
00:19:59 Emanuela Giangregorio : And hybrid approaches as well, so essentially, regardless of the actual project methodology that you’re using, this integrates with that.WHAT YOU WILL GET
00:20:06 Emanuela Giangregorio Our courses and workshops include:: So, if your organisation already has a project management framework that it’s using, what we do is build in the activities and deliverables within that framework so that they can bring the governance. In some cases, the artifacts or deliverables are individual documents on their own for very complex types of projects and programs. In other cases, they are just embedded within your document.Certification exam(s) where applicable
00:20:28 Emanuela Giangregorio Accredited training course materials: So for example, if you have a project charter, you might have one heading that says AI assistance plan and you build it into that process. And I’ve spoken about the flexibility around that as well. So I won’t go too much on this slide because I’d like to make sure we have enough time for questions as well.Expert, experienced trainers to support you
00:20:46 Emanuela Giangregorio Course manual where applicable.: In addition, the framework is accompanied by a capability and maturity model. And this is really important because there are four pillars of measurement. And these four pillars are AI strategy and governance, AI tools and infrastructure, human capability and accountability, and data readiness and quality.
00:21:05 Emanuela Giangregorio SELF-PACED ONLINE TRAINING COURSES: So this instrument essentially is a set of 16 questions, 4 questions per pillar. So you’ve got 16 questions across the four pillars. And when you answer those questions, you get to see really where you are within that capability maturity model.Self-paced online training courses (e-learning) include:
00:21:21 Emanuela Giangregorio Certification exam(s) where applicable: Like most CMMs, it’s got 5 levels, ad hoc, initialised, standardised, enterprise, and optimised. So ad hoc is pretty much like everyone’s doing their own thing. There’s no governance in place.Accredited training course materials
00:21:33 Emanuela Giangregorio Support from expert, experienced trainers: Initialised, we’re starting to think about it. In fact, we have some ways of bringing governance into projects.Latest educational technology.
00:21:39 Emanuela Giangregorio : Standardised is at least within, let’s just say you work for a very large organisation, at least within one part of the organisation or one team, we have a standardised approach to governing how AI is used in projects, maybe using the AI project governance framework or something similar.BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
00:21:55 Emanuela Giangregorio : At the enterprise level, basically across the organisation, this is now embedded.
00:21:59 Emanuela Giangregorio TO HELP ORGANISATIONS IMPROVE
00:24:06 Emanuela Giangregorio : But again, you know, so a small number at enterprise level and maybe that links in with the previous poll.
00:24:12 Emanuela Giangregorio
France00:25:01 Emanuela Giangregorio : But you’ll get a two-page report which shows where you’re at and also some guidance on how to kind of get to the next level as well.Germany
00:25:08 Emanuela Giangregorio Greece: The whole point with this is it’s all very well having a framework that shows how to govern how AI is used, but one of the core values is continuous improvement. And sometimes we need to demonstrate to the organisation or make a case for like why we need to put more effort into it.Ireland
00:25:22 Emanuela Giangregorio Italy: If we can show, look, we’ve evaluated where we’re at.Latvia
00:25:26 Emanuela Giangregorio Lithuania: We’re at 1.5. This is the work we need to get to level 2. You can start making a case for that. And also then as you start maturing, you can also demonstrate that assurance as well.Luxemburg
00:25:37 Emanuela Giangregorio Malta: Who should complete this?Netherlands
00:25:39 Emanuela Giangregorio Poland: It’s great if you complete it yourself, but actually maybe people do challenge independence and objectivity. So it might be good for maybe a group of people to do it together or independent functions like internal audit or people that are not going to be biased in their assessment as well. That is helpful too.Portugal
00:25:57 Alex Barbara Romania: Okay, so we are #4 now.Slovakia
00:25:59 Alex Barbara Slovenia: So yeah, I was just thinking this in my brain and who is the, who is AIPGF for?Spain
00:26:04 Alex Barbara Sweden: So who is the ideal target audience for this one?Other countries
00:26:08 Emanuela Giangregorio Home: Right.Project Management
00:26:08 Emanuela Giangregorio PRINCE2: And it’s not everyone, right?PRINCE2 Course
00:26:10 Emanuela Giangregorio Does PRINCE2 help your career: So it’s not like everyone who uses AI.
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00:26:16 Emanuela Giangregorio : One is those people who have some sort of project portfolio or strategic oversight role. So PMOs or SPOs, strategic programs, offers people to people in those roles, people who play roles as a project sponsor, those sort of strategic oversight roles. And they essentially would be the ones to champion AI governance, because if people are just told you need to bring governance into your project, but there’s no championing from sort of the top, it becomes very difficult because you need the time and the space to do that. So that’s really sort of the first layer.PRINCE2 helped this student get a job
00:26:47 Emanuela Giangregorio : Then of course, within project and program delivery in all the delivery roles, because they are the ones that are actually activating the governance activities.Simon Buehring
00:26:57 Emanuela Giangregorio 19 Feb 2026: And then there’s governance and assurance roles, compliance roles. So these would be the ones that we’d be auditing that. So in other words, they now know what good looks like and then they can go then have a look independently and objectively and appraise the degree of AI governance. So it’s quite a lot of people if you think about job functions, but it’s not everyone, right? It’s just, it’s really basically focusing in the world of AI governance in projects and programs.Key takeaways
00:27:20 Emanuela Giangregorio A recognised project management qualification can accelerate a career change by boosting credibility and confidence.: Does that make sense?PRINCE2 can help open interview doors by signalling commitment to professional development on a CV.
00:27:21 Alex Barbara Learning common project terminology makes it easier to describe experience clearly in interviews and on the job.: Yeah, exactly right.A foundation qualification can support moves across industries and countries becau
00:27:25 Emanuela Giangregorio : So for organisations, by adopting some sort of framework like this one, it helps them stay ahead with AI governance in projects. And also my clients that are putting this in place now are very much aware that regulation is going to increase and eventually these things will be by law you have to have these things in place.
00:27:43 Emanuela Giangregorio se it is widely recognised.: And then it becomes like a chaotic catch up amongst everything else.Confidence gained from training can improve performance when managing operational projects, even outside a formal project manager role.
00:27:46 Emanuela Giangregorio Targeted job searching through recruiters, industry research, and junior roles can create a realistic pathway into the sector.: It’s basically staying ahead of the curve. And then when you are challenged to evidence things, it’s going to be easy to do that. And also we’ve got the capability maturity benchmark, which really helps organisations show where they are and what they’re aiming to get to and how.
00:28:03 Emanuela Giangregorio : For candidates, really good for you to be able to show leadership and staying ahead in your career. And as I said earlier, a new or pivoted career path or job security.
00:28:14 Emanuela Giangregorio : You know, you’ve heard so many people talk about, you know, people, you’re not going to lose your job to AI, you’re going to lose your job to people who know how to use AI the best.
00:28:22 Emanuela Giangregorio : But not only that, those are able to show the governance too. Because that’s really where people are going to be held more accountable.
00:28:30 Emanuela Giangregorio : I’d say in 2025, a lot of the LinkedIn posts, and I suppose it depends what the algorithm feeds as well, very much so, but I often search for things, but there was a lot on what the tools can do.
00:28:41 Emanuela Giangregorio : And I’d say best part of this year so far, there’s been a lot more, a lot of awareness on governance because it’s becoming an important topic.
00:28:51 Alex Barbara : And #5, the certification scheme, very important one.
00:28:55 Alex Barbara : I think it’s over to Sevcan, is that right?
00:28:59 Emanuela Giangregorio : Yes, Sev, perhaps you can talk about it from a Knowledge Train perspective because APMG International have
00:29:07 Emanuela Giangregorio : looked at the framework for it looks actually really quite robust and rigorous.
00:29:11 Emanuela Giangregorio : And so let’s have a two-tier certification.
00:29:13 Emanuela Giangregorio Copied!: So there’s the foundation, which is a theoretical understanding of the framework and its elements.
00:29:18 Emanuela Giangregorio : And then there’s the practitioner, which is really, if you pass the practitioner, you’re showing you know how to practically tailor it to different contexts and how to use it in the real world.
00:29:30 Emanuela Giangregorio Contents: How is knowledge?
00:29:30 Emanuela Giangregorio : What is Knowledge Train offering around this?Contents
00:29:33 Sevcan Valiyeva : That’s well said.Introduction
00:29:34 Sevcan Valiyeva : I mean, who can say it better than the scheme owner?Overview
00:29:37 Sevcan Valiyeva : I mean, so as Emmanuela mentioned, we have both foundation and the practitioner.Why did you take a PRINCE2 course?
00:29:44 Sevcan Valiyeva : We have the option to do a live classroom. So that is with an instructor, an accredited instructor.Who told you PRINCE2 would help your career?
00:29:52 Sevcan Valiyeva : So that’s that.What job did you have prior to the course?
00:29:53 Sevcan Valiyeva : We also have the option to do it as an in-house training where it can be fully bespoke. We can come to your organisation or it can be a specific location.Did you apply for project management jobs?
00:30:03 Sevcan Valiyeva : That’s absolutely fine.Did the course enable you to get a job?
00:30:04 Sevcan Valiyeva : Or alternatively, we can also set it online for organisations as well.Has the course helped your career in other ways?
00:30:10 Sevcan Valiyeva : Our next public course will be on the 12th of October. That’s the foundation one.How did you find work after the course?
00:30:16 Sevcan Valiyeva : If you do have any questions, I’m going to pop my e-mail.Was job-hunting easier after the course?
00:30:23 Sevcan Valiyeva : Slow typo.What job interviews did you get after the course?
00:30:26 Sevcan Valiyeva : Yeah, okay.Did you feel well-prepared for job interviews?
00:30:29 Sevcan Valiyeva : Feel free to e-mail me with any questions about the course or about the webinar or generally anything, even other courses if you wish as well.Have you taken other courses since?
00:30:37 Sevcan Valiyeva : So that’s my e-mail and I think we can move on to the Q&A.What are your future career plans?
00:30:41 Emanuela Giangregorio : Fantastic.Would you recommend PRINCE2 to others?
00:30:42 Emanuela Giangregorio Introduction: I don’t see any questions in the chat box unless you saw them.Overview
00:30:44 Emanuela Giangregorio Lisa Gobell took a : So you can have a look, but I just want to focus on a comment.PRINCE2 Foundation course
00:30:47 Emanuela Giangregorio with Knowledge Train last year. She is now a Business Support Manager for Project One Consulting Limited, a project management firm based near Manchester.: Thank you.This article is an interview we conducted with her, to find out how
00:30:48 Emanuela Giangregorio PRINCE2: Generative AI training is mandatory for all employees in our company. And the company introduced enterprise generative AI, which is fantastic. helped her career. We hope you find it useful!
00:30:57 Emanuela Giangregorio Why did you take a PRINCE2 course?: You know, a lot of my clients, they get the tools, but they don’t get the training. And it’s great that a GenAI training is compulsory for everybody because then at least people know how to use the tools or at least, you know, the basics of the tools.Lisa:
00:31:08 Emanuela Giangregorio I was considering a career change into project management. A friend told me that the : So that’s really great to see.PRINCE2 qualification
00:31:10 Emanuela Giangregorio helped her become a project manager. She told me it was globally recognised.: You’ve alsoBeing from Australia, I needed something transferrable in case I ever moved back. Even if I decided not to pursue project management as my core role, I wanted more confidence in how to manage a project – no matter how big or small – so that I could lead change in any organization I worked for. Having this qualification on my CV would show my dedication and commitment to personal development. It would also make me more eligible for promotions and salary increases over time.
00:31:11 Emanuela Giangregorio Who told you PRINCE2 would help your career?: I also got to say these help to educate and limit the AI tools that employees can use.Lisa:
00:31:15 Emanuela Giangregorio A friend of mine changed to a project management career. The first thing she did to prepare for that change was to gain a : Therefore, I think they can pass the audit.PRINCE2 Foundation qualification
00:31:18 Emanuela Giangregorio . This is because employers wanted to see the qualification on her CV before allowing her through to interview. I also did my own research online and it was clear that PRINCE2 was recognised in various industries and multiple countries.: I’d like to maybe say I don’t know for sure.What job did you have prior to the course?
00:31:23 Emanuela Giangregorio Lisa:: We’d have to see. Principal Advisor. I was an investment advisor and family office advisor to wealthy individuals and families.
00:31:24 Emanuela Giangregorio Did you apply for project management jobs?: So just because people know how to use the tools and what they can and can’t do doesn’t mean that necessarily that they will pass the audit. Because what the audit is going to look for is things around like if they’re an audit trial for like let’s just say, and again, we’re thinking more, GenAI tools, which for everyone to know, GenAI is tools like that you might be using, like Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc., where they’re generating content for you. Not any documents, but it could be code, all these different things.Lisa:
00:31:54 Emanuela Giangregorio Yes, and although it did not result in a project management role, I have become a Business Support/Operations Manager in a project management company. I work within the operational side of the business, so I manage projects which allow the business to grow over time. For example, helping to implement a new IT system for client resourcing or managing the fit-out of our building.: So, you know, you’ll pass the audit if you can show, if you are challenged, if you show an audit trail of how a deliverable was created and who signed it off.Did the course enable you to get a job?
00:32:03 Emanuela Giangregorio Lisa:: Right? Yes. Business Support Manager, as described above. The course gave me the confidence to sell myself in the interview when they described the sorts of projects I would be managing. It also helped me to familiarize myself with the project terms that are used daily amongst my managers and colleagues, of which 95% are project managers themselves.
00:32:04 Emanuela Giangregorio Has the course helped your career in other ways?: So is there a human to sign it off?Lisa:
00:32:05 Emanuela Giangregorio Yes, doing a : And if you show the human in the loop checking, so you can say, okay, this is the final deliverable.PRINCE2 course
00:32:10 Emanuela Giangregorio gave me the confidence to excel at my role when managing projects. I feel more comfortable when seeking advice from my colleagues who are project managers, because I am more familiar with the terminology they are using that were very foreign to me before.
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: So what do we do in the sort of first stage of the project?
00:36:39 Emanuela Giangregorio : What little bit of extra governance can we inject to evidence that governance is being built into that?PRINCE2 cost
00:36:44 Emanuela Giangregorio : So maybe an AI assistance plan. And you can look at the example in the book. And so what I would do is maybe light touch governance, because we know when you try to introduce too much people and think that that’s too much bureaucracy. And this fact is not even designed that way. It’s actually is very much sort of light to touch throughout.Simon Buehring
00:37:04 Emanuela Giangregorio 28 Apr 2026: But I would say be very clear where you are, examine where you want to be realistically, and then have that short list of actions that you can take and bring into your governance model.
00:37:16 Alex Barbara Save on PRINCE2 certification costs with our exclusive discount codes. Read on to find out how to make your training more affordable.: That’s great, Manny.
00:37:17 Alex Barbara : Thank you.
00:37:18 Alex Barbara : Thanks for the question, Miriam.
00:37:19 Alex Barbara : So a question from Brian, he said, are there specific regulations or guidelines around AI use in the healthcare industry?
00:37:26 Alex Barbara PRINCE2 benefits, advantages and disadvantages: Interesting question that.
00:37:28 Emanuela Giangregorio Simon Buehring: Yeah, thanks.19 Feb 2026
00:37:29 Emanuela Giangregorio : So there’s, if you’re in healthcare, you’ll be familiar with GMP, Good Manufacturing Practice and those sort of things around the regulations.Evaluate the benefits and potential drawbacks of PRINCE2 to see how it fits into your career development. Scroll down for a balanced view.
00:37:37 Emanuela Giangregorio : In healthcare, you work in a very highly regulated industry. I’m not familiar with any AI standards or
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00:39:21 Emanuela Giangregorio : It’s great to have both, but if you don’t, it’s great to see that we have employee driven initiatives.
00:39:27 Alex Barbara : Definitely.
00:39:27 Alex Barbara : Thanks.
00:39:28 Alex Barbara : Thanks for that one, James.Interview with Elizabeth Moon
00:39:28 Alex Barbara : So on to the next.Sevcan Yasa
00:39:30 Alex Barbara 19 Feb 2026: So Rebecca says, I’m the only one in my team using Copilot in projects.
00:39:33 Alex Barbara In this video, Elizabeth Moon describes her experience of taking a PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner course with Knowledge Train.: I’ve already started using audit trails to ensure that anyone else looking at the data can understand the results that have been given.
00:39:39 Alex Barbara : So that’s interesting and well done as well.
: If you’ve got any questions, feel free to throw them in the chat.Simon Buehring
00:40:36 Alex Barbara 19 Feb 2026
00:41:50 Emanuela Giangregorio : And obviously, definitely you’d have to have the Canada and the US as well, because obviously in the region that you’re in.+44 (0)207 148 5985
00:41:57 Emanuela Giangregorio : So that’s what you’re going to see. And more and more regional regulations, blended regulations, regional regulations.Or chat with us using the link at the bottom of the screen.
00:42:05 Emanuela Giangregorio Contact us with questions about the courses on this page, or about which project management certification or training is best for you.: Singapore, for example, they’ve got their regulations as well. And so you have all these different regulations.Contact
00:42:12 Emanuela Giangregorio Cookies: There was a meeting in China two or three days ago where Xi Jinping with some other countries signed an agreement around good AI use as well. It’s not quite regulation yet, but it’s kind of some sort of agreement around howPrivacy
00:42:26 Emanuela Giangregorio Terms: So regulations, standards, guidance, frameworks, all these different things are happening.Customer Support
00:42:34 Emanuela Giangregorio : Really what we want to, the focus of today’s session was how do you do it practically in projects? And really what you want to do is think about, you know, some people have sent you building in the order trails. Some of you are required to ensure that everyone’s doing the training, etc. And that’s really the starting process of AI governance at the practical project and program level.[email protected]
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