Team Project Management using Notion
What you'll learn
- Improve team clarity and task ownership
- Align work with objectives and key results (OKRs)
- Improve project forecasting
- See team member workload and load balance projects
- Reduce the stress of work
- Reduce disorganization and chaos
Requirements
- A Notion account
- Basic Notion experience (creating pages, typing)
Description
Overwhelmed at how to use Notion to manage your business and projects? This course is the answer!
Do you sometimes feel like
the tools you use don't fit how your business runs
you and your team work on tasks that aren't aligned with your goals
it's difficult to see progress and next steps
there it too much information, and you don't know how best to organize it
you lack the big picture of how all the pieces are working together
Do you feel like your team
doesn't understand your current goals
has too many meetings or frustrating conversations
works without clear processes
doesn't document their work effectively
has meetings that don't produce clear outcomes
talks a lot, but doesn't get things done.
And, you've experienced projects that
failed while spending a lot of money
weren't profitable
built spreadsheets and detailed plans that ended up being completely wrong
tried different project management systems, and people, and still didn't accomplish what you need
lacked clear processes to minimize risk
I've been there too, and it's frustrating!
But then, we stumbled on Notion. Over the last 1.5 years we've been using Notion as our main system to manage our business. Over that time, we've continually improved our process and system. This course represents the best practices we've learned.
In this course, you'll learn:
The A-to-Z System of Configuring Notion to Work with Teams
Organizing core systems into shared databases
How to connect the dots between tasks, actions, projects, and team members
How to connect tasks to higher level objectives and goals (OKRs)
Using projects and timelines to manage your overall processes, without having to upgrade your Notion account.
Simpler, Distributed Team-based Project Management
Manage projects and products with assigned tasks in sprints.
Each person on the team needs to know what to do now. And, next.
Track tasks assigned to others in one place (GTD waiting for) and get regular updates.
Manage large tasks with epics.
Manage deliverables across time zones and geography.
Managing Backlogs, Sprints, and Velocity
Each week, schedule jobs-to be-done (JTBD) in Sprints. Each task gets 1 point.
Velocity rolls up automatically for real-time dashboards for project, key results, and company metrics.
Team members still do a velocity reports. But, those reports are to reflect on their own work over the sprint. Reflect, plan, then improve.
Visualizing Progress with OKRs and Realtime Status Reports
Roll up the current status of work against business objectives.
Track progress against key results, and in real-time.
Manage knowledge so that we can scale as our team grows without creating more work for ourselves.
With Notion and this course, you can build this all in one solution. Get more done, and do it together.
Who this course is for:
- Entrepreneurs
- Startups
- Team project managers
Course content
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Instructor
William Flanagan is the Founder and CEO of Audienti (formerly OMA-Organic Marketing Analytics), a software company that helps businesses drive traffic that converts with content. He is a nationally recognized marketing expert and leader, regularly speaking at industry events and writing articles and opinions in a number of different industries.
Formerly, William was the CEO of TEMPUS Group (US), a digital agency where he lead efforts with communications, Internet technology, non-profit, small business and governmental clients. Prior to founding The TEMPUS Group, William was VP of Marketing at Cognio, a wireless technology software company, where he was responsible for leading the company's product management and marketing efforts. At Cognio, his efforts, combined with a fantastic executive team, created the Enterprise Spectrum Assurance market,secured several OEMs of Cognio technology, scaled the business to an over-$10-million run rate from no revenues, and ultimately drove acquisition of Cognio by Cisco, Inc. in October 2007.
Prior to joining Cognio, William was a founder and the Chief Strategy Officer of sentitO Networks, a venture-backed startup building award-winning VoIP solutions.
William has also held a number of positions at Tellabs/SALIX Technologies, Lucent/Ascend, and 3Com/Primary Access. In addition to efforts with TEMPUS Group,
William actively works with the Taproot Foundation, a non-profit foundation focused on helping other non-profit organizations gain access to the marketing infrastructure they need to improve the human condition. In addition, William has worked with the National Science Foundation on market viability and strategy for prospective awards of Small Business Innovative Research program grants, a program that has awarded over $100 million in grants to small businesses.