Python for project managers — Jira / Asana automation, status rollups, portfolio dashboards
The Monday-morning status deck writes itself if you spend one weekend teaching it how.
A PM's job is coordination, not copy-paste. But most PM tooling forces both: pull Jira tickets → paste into a spreadsheet → count by status → screenshot into a slide → send to leadership. Every Monday. Python collapses that pipeline into 40 lines and a Cron job, freeing the actual PM work — unblocking teams, escalating risks, negotiating scope — from being crushed by reporting.
Automation track hands you the tools: requests for every project-tool API (Jira, Asana, Linear, Monday, ClickUp all have identical patterns), pandas for cross-team rollups (burndown per epic, blocker duration histograms, cycle-time percentiles), openpyxl for the exec deck. Foundations gives you the syntax to glue them. First 15 lessons free — verify Python fits the way you think before committing.