Project Management. Complete Practice Course + Insights

Choose a workflow framework, define project type, goals, and scope; map a timeline with a Gantt chart, allocate resources, identify risks, and conduct a kickoff.

Gain insights on project planning, including factoring vacations and holidays into allocation, validating team qualifications, building mitigation plans for risks, and aligning scope, timeline, and goals to keep deadlines realistic.

Compare waterfall and agile workflows, highlighting how agile delivers value early by releasing features in increments and iterating on requirements, design, implementation, verification, and release.

Explore agile workflows with Scrum and Kanban, learn roles, sprint ceremonies, backlog and story points, and practical guidance to start implementing agile project management.

Explore a ticket workflow from to do to ready for QA, including blockers and owner validation. Identify five task types: epic, user story, improvement, bug, research, sprint timelines are chosen.

Explore strategies for partially completed user stories at sprint end, including separating uncompleted work into new tickets and closing the original with the completed score to track velocity.

Master scope management by defining in scope versus out of scope work, preventing scope creep, and building a detailed roadmap with sprint plans, dependencies, and resource estimates.

Embrace a dynamic roadmap that adapts to changing scope, priorities, and dependencies, plan for change requests and budget, and allocate time for quality assurance and release.

Learn how to manage project budgets by comparing fixed-price and time and material contracts, tracking projected costs, actual costs, and variances, and calculating resource direct costs and gross margin.

Track budget weekly and communicate time and material concepts to clients to prevent misperceptions of fixed price. Log hours, monitor budget variance, and flexibly reallocate resources to avoid budget burn.

Define and categorize project risks, apply avoid, accept, reduce, transfer, or share strategies, and organize a risk register with description, impact, status, impact area, deadlines, and responsibilities.

Communicate risks to the client with clear deadlines and responsible persons, and create a second spreadsheet visible only to a limited group from the kickoff risk list to support mitigation.

Explore defining roles and responsibilities with a raci matrix and building a project allocation model that clarifies accountable, responsible, consulted, and informed roles, while aligning timeline and budget.

Learn how to balance senior and junior roles, track team velocity in story points across sprints, and sustain motivation with leadership, proper communication, and regular one-on-ones.

Prevent burnout and protect high performance by monitoring workload, allowing Friday rest, and acting on trust signals. Prioritize soft skills, limit to three performance attempts, and plan vacations and holidays.

Explore estimation methods for projects, including top down, bottom up, parametric, and expertise-based approaches, and three-point estimates with optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic scenarios, illustrated by a practical website example.

Master quality control with manual and automated testing, covering pixel perfect frontend checks and unit, integration, system, acceptance, regression, and smoke testing.

Apply practical QA staffing guidance using a one-to-three developer ratio, leverage test management tools to track test cases and regressions, and assess long-term project suitability.

Manage client expectations with weekly status calls, plan client involvement in advance, and a shared report template. Recap progress, upcoming tasks, decisions, risks, blockers, and budget; visualize with a roadmap.