Smart Tips: Project Management & Agile

About this course

Udemy's "Smart Tips" is the ultimate micro-learning series. Short, standalone lectures let you learn new skills at your own pace, anytime, anywhere. Find what you need, when you need it. Elevate your learning with Smart Tips!If you have been assigned to a project at work or if you are an ambitious person, this course is for you! Why? Because at some point or another every professional is asked to be part of a project or lead one as the project manager. But the world of projects is completely different than the world of operations and theory is very different than practice.Projects are unchartered, intense terrain, which I call: Projectland. Consider me your tour guide through the intense terrain of Projectland. I will share strategies and practical techniques to help you navigate and succeed in your own version of Projectland. By the end, you will be able to decide for yourself if navigating Projectland is scary or exciting. You’ll learn to think more like a professional project manager, equipped to assess and respond to project risk, so that you can deliver results. You will also be introduced to the project manager role, so that you can decide whether it is a good fit for you. If not, you can direct your career to be more suited to your strengths.In this course, you will gain skills in planning, leading and delivering successful projects, which will help you to accomplish more, stress less, impress your boss and achieve your career goals.You will learn...1. What a project is and what it is not, so that you can know which work on your plate will benefit from project management techniques2. Who is in Projectland including what the boss of a project is called, a deep dive into the project manager role and an introduction to different kinds of team members3. Who stakeholders are, how to think about the