Microsoft Power Automate for Project Managers: The No-Code Guide to Automating Your Workflow with Microsoft 365, Azure DevOps, and Jira (The Modern Project Manager Book 2)

You already have the tool. You just haven't turned it on yet.
Microsoft Power Automate is included in your Microsoft 365 license — and it can eliminate hours of manual project management work every single week.

If you're a project manager still chasing status updates by hand, compiling reports from spreadsheets, routing approvals through email chains, and copying data between systems — you're doing work that a machine could handle in seconds. Not because you lack skill, but because no one ever showed you how.

Power Automate for Project Managers is the practical, zero-code guide that shows you exactly how to build automated workflows that connect the tools you already use — without a computer science degree and without waiting for IT to build it for you. What makes this book different:
✔ 25 ready-to-build workflow recipes — from automated weekly status reports and blocked-item escalation to scope change approval chains and sprint velocity trackers. Each recipe includes the problem, the solution, and numbered step-by-step build instructions.

✔ Dual-platform coverage: Azure DevOps AND Jira — every workflow includes parallel instructions for both platforms, so you can follow along regardless of which tool your team uses.

✔ Microsoft ecosystem mastery — Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, Excel, Planner, and Forms, all connected and working together automatically.

✔ Licensing and governance done right — understand standard vs. premium connectors, DLP policies, flow ownership, and security best practices so you don't create IT headaches.

✔ A 20-minute quick start — build your first working flow before you finish Chapter 1.

✔ WIQL and JQL cheat sheets — ready-to-use query templates for Azure DevOps and Jira that power your reporting and monitoring automations.

This book covers automations for status reporting, approval routing, sprint management, stakeholder communication, risk monitoring, resource tracking, and document management — organized as a cookbook you can open to any recipe and start building immediately.

Stop doing manually what a machine can do in seconds.

From Sara Blackburn, author of The AI-Powered Project Manager and The Late Starter's Guide to Financial Stability — practical guides for professionals who are ready to work smarter.