BEGINNERCOURSE
Digital Project Management
Smooth processes and happy human relationships are key to managing effectively. Learn better ways to work with complexity so you can run projects like a pro.
Taught by
Travis Gertz and Rachel Gertz
Taught by
Travis Gertz and Rachel Gertz
In partnership with Louder Than Ten, our Digital Project Management course takes you on a deep dive into better ways to work with humans and complexity. The aim? For you to run healthier, happier projects in real-time.
Whether you're a freelancer or work full-time, this course will teach you smart project management principles that you can use immediately. While administering a giant boost of confidence, it'll also help you cultivate the soft and hard skills you need for setting and resetting expectations, strengthening relationships, and taking your projects across the finish line without a cold sweat.
Anyone who runs projects (surprise, that's all of you!) or wants to make a career switch and learn how to herd cats, set up better project workflows, and have more effective conversations about the work you manage every day. This course is role and methodology agnostic. It's applicable whether you lead projects or are part of a bigger team: you'll learn to do what works best for your projects whether you're a designer, developer, or wear another hat altogether.
We’ll take a look at what makes digital project management such a unique and critical skill. We’ll also dive into the lifecycle of a digital project, and learn the all-important pillars of project management.
We’ll learn what project management is really all about: working with people. We’ll take a look at how to build alignment and open communication channels with your stakeholders to keep everything on track.
We'll learn all about how to ensure a project's success before it even starts. This will include identifying red flags and risks during project intake, as well as evaluating whether or not a project is the right fit before you take it on.
So you've won the project–now what? We'll show you how to set up a project for success by setting the tone and pace with your stakeholders right away. We'll also give some tips on helpful tools and processes you can use to start a project off on the right foot.
Your time is sacred, so why waste it in pointless meetings? We'll show you how to get the best bang for your buck by running efficient and productive meetings. We'll also teach you what type of meetings you should be having in the first place depending on your goals.
One thing required in every project, big or small, is a discovery. We’ll deep dive into how to run an excellent project kickoff, position your research, and gather initial requirements to start giving your project some shape so you can hit the ground running.
We'll go over the core documents used in project management and their purposes, including contracts, project plans, communication plans, and more.
Agile, Scrum, and Kanban–oh my! We'll walk you through the most common methodologies in project management, and how to use a hybrid methodology by taking components and principles of each and remixing them to fit your project's needs.
We'll learn how to effectively scope a project, and how to avoid the most common scoping pitfalls. We'll also talk about how four different forms of scope creep can impact your project, and how to navigate them with ease.
So you've got your project scope–now how do you decide what to work on first? We'll show you how to analyze urgency, impact, and effort to come up with a Minimum Valuable Product (MVP). We'll also give you some prioritizing hacks that you can use on your tasks, projects, and even your life!
We'll learn all about estimation: what it is, and how to avoid pitfalls. We'll also learn different types of estimation, top-down and bottom-up, as well as provide you with some handy tips on how to refine your approach to estimating.
Learn how to set up a flexible schedule that allows for focus and time blocking. We'll also talk about the cost of delays, and how to avoid scheduling pitfalls that can derail your project.
We'll give an introduction into red flags and risks, and what to do when you spot them in your project. We'll learn about how red flags can impact different parts of your project, and how to reset your project if it's going off the rails.
Change is inevitable, so we'll teach you what to do when it happens in your project. We'll show you how to set up a change management system and improve your quality assurance process. We'll also talk through smoothing out project approvals and turnarounds.
Woohoo, your project is complete! Now what? We'll teach you how to set up, run, and launch future phases, as well as how to improve handoffs, retainers, and launches. We'll show you how to close out a project and run an amazing retrospective.
In the last lesson of the course, we'll put it all together and talk about the power you have through project management. We'll also talk about how PM will change in the future, and ways to deepen and expand your learning.
Travis is a partner and designer at Louder Than Ten. He went to school to design magazines, ended up making websites, and now he’s on a mission to help the world see how cool and underrated project management actually is.
Rachel Gertz is Co-founder and Digital PM Trainer at Louder Than Ten. She trains apprentices in digital project management so they can work full time while learning to keep their companies happy, healthy, and ready for the future. Rachel works on raising tides that float all boats to elevate the technology industry.
Lesson 01
What is a Meeting?
Lesson 02
Types of Meetings
Lesson 03
Status Meetings
Lesson 04
Info Meetings
Lesson 05
Problem Solving Meetings
Lesson 06
Decision Making Meetings
Lesson 07
Team Building Meetings
Lesson 08
Creative Meetings
Lesson 09
Meeting Formats
Lesson 10
Before the Meeting
Lesson 11
During the Meeting
Lesson 12
After the Meeting
Lesson 13
Tips For Better Meetings
Lesson 01
Documents in Project Management
Lesson 02
Project Briefs
Lesson 03
Contracts
Lesson 04
Statement of Work
Lesson 05
How to make a Statement of Work
Lesson 06
Contract Example
Lesson 07
Project Plans
Lesson 08
Project Plan Formats
Lesson 09
Tiny Bio Project Plan
Lesson 10
Requirements
Lesson 11
Weekly Updates
Lesson 12
Communication Plan
Lesson 13
Communication Plan In Action
Lesson 01
What is Waterfall?
Lesson 02
When to use Waterfall?
Lesson 03
Waterfall Do's and Don'ts
Lesson 04
What is Agile?
Lesson 05
When to use Agile?
Lesson 06
Tiny Bio Agile
Lesson 07
Scrum Rituals
Lesson 08
Scrum Work
Lesson 09
Scrum Roles
Lesson 10
Scrum Example
Lesson 11
Kanban
Lesson 12
What is Hybrid?
Lesson 13
When to use Hybrid?
Lesson 14
Which Method for Tiny Bio?
Lesson 01
What is Scope?
Lesson 02
How to Scope Effectively
Lesson 03
Build the Right Thing
Lesson 04
What are Requirements?
Lesson 05
Understanding Requirements
Lesson 06
How to Gather Requirements
Lesson 07
Scope Spectrum
Lesson 08
Scoping Example
Lesson 09
Documenting Requirements
Lesson 10
Requirements Document
Lesson 11
Requirements Document Example
Lesson 12
Avoiding Scoping Pitfalls
Lesson 13
What is Scope Creep?
Lesson 14
Why does Scope Creep Happen?
Lesson 15
Who is Responsible for Scope Creep?
Lesson 16
Four Types of Scope Creep
Lesson 17
Business Creep
Lesson 18
Effort Creep
Lesson 19
Hope Creep
Lesson 20
Feature Creep
Lesson 21
Navigating Scope Creep
Lesson 22
The Sound of Scope Creep
Lesson 23
Practice Your Scripts
Lesson 01
What is Prioritization?
Lesson 02
Analyzing Urgency Impact Effort
Lesson 03
Impact vs Effort
Lesson 04
Urgent vs Important
Lesson 05
Classify Urgency and Importance
Lesson 06
Triage Properities
Lesson 07
Minimum Valuable Product
Lesson 08
How to Prioritize for an MVP
Lesson 09
Small, Not Half Baked
Lesson 10
Prune Features
Lesson 11
Goals Alignmentt
Lesson 12
Outcomes, Not Features
Lesson 13
Evaluate Risks
Lesson 14
How to Evaluate MVP
Lesson 15
Prioritization Hacks
Lesson 16
Productivity for Self
Lesson 17
Prioritize Projects
Lesson 01
What is Estimation?
Lesson 02
When to Estimate
Lesson 03
Who Estimates?
Lesson 04
Top Down Estimation
Lesson 05
Bottom Up Estimation
Lesson 06
90th Percent Estimation Example
Lesson 07
90th Percentile
Lesson 08
Double Blind Estimation
Lesson 09
Pointing Poker Estimation
Lesson 10
How to Estimate Badly
Lesson 11
Laws and Fallacies
Lesson 12
Tips for Estimating
Lesson 13
How Eleven Estimates
Lesson 14
How Internal Teams Estimate Better
Lesson 01
What is a Schedule?
Lesson 02
When Should You Schedule?
Lesson 03
How to Set Up a Schedule?
Lesson 04
Calendars
Lesson 05
Gantt Charts
Lesson 06
Milestones
Lesson 07
Before You Make a Schedule
Lesson 08
As You Schedule
Lesson 09
Consider Your Audience
Lesson 10
Adding Buffer
Lesson 11
Setting Checkpoints
Lesson 12
Review Your Schedule
Lesson 13
How to Adjust Your Schedule
Lesson 14
Set Expectations
Lesson 15
Timeboxing
Lesson 16
Sprint Iteration Schedules
Lesson 17
How Schedules Affect Sustainability
Lesson 18
Cost of Delay
Lesson 19
When Projects Drag
Lesson 20
Team Capacity
Lesson 21
Team Gantt Exercise
Lesson 22
Team Gantt Demo
Lesson 23
Sprint Iteration
Lesson 01
Risks and Red Flags
Lesson 02
Positive vs Negative Risk
Lesson 03
What are Risks?
Lesson 04
What are Red Flags?
Lesson 05
Risk and Red Flag Categories
Lesson 06
Project Risk is Normal
Lesson 07
How to Identity Red Flags
Lesson 08
How to Plan for Risk
Lesson 09
Mitigate the Risk
Lesson 10
Mitigate Extreme Risk
Lesson 11
Mitigate Major Risk
Lesson 12
Mitigate Moderate Risk
Lesson 13
Mitigate Minor Risk
Lesson 14
Make a Contingency Plan
Lesson 15
How to do a Risk Analysis
Lesson 16
Risk Log Demo
Lesson 17
Refine Your Risk Analysis
Lesson 01
What is Change Management
Lesson 02
Types of Change Control
Lesson 03
Types of Natural Change to Manage
Lesson 04
How to Setup Change Management System
Lesson 05
How to Set Expectations
Lesson 06
Gather Feedback
Lesson 07
Triage Requests
Lesson 08
Process Change
Lesson 09
Refine and Automate
Lesson 10
QA Testing
Lesson 11
Why QA is Important
Lesson 12
QA Pitfalls to Avoid
Lesson 13
How to Manage and Respond to Change
Lesson 14
Change Control Scripts
Lesson 15
Tips for Dealing with Feedback
Lesson 16
Tiny Bio Change Management Example
Lesson 01
What is Continuous Improvement?
Lesson 02
How to Incorporate Continuous Improvement
Lesson 03
Future Phases
Lesson 04
How Future Work is Typically Handled
Lesson 05
How to Setup Future Phases
Lesson 06
Handoffs
Lesson 07
Intake to Project Setup
Lesson 08
Research to Design
Lesson 09
Content to Design
Lesson 10
Design to Development
Lesson 11
Launch to Project Close
Lesson 12
Team to Clients
Lesson 13
Improve Handoffs
Lesson 14
How to Offboard Close Project
Lesson 15
Retrospectives
Lesson 16
Project Close
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