Project Management 101 – Patrick OMalley

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An important part of being a product manager is overseeing the progress of the team and making decisions to ensure maximum value. It’s essential to understand the basics of project management whether you are in a large company working with project managers or in a smaller startup where both the product management and project management fall on your shoulders.

One of the major challenges is making sure you do not start a project unless all of its parameters have been validated with the different stakeholders. We will, therefore, examine how to create a business case, conduct a feasibility study, and write a project charter.

We will explore the five phases of the project management lifecycle, which will show you how to create a project plan, execute against that plan, and monitor progress before closing the project.

We will look at task breakdown, how to estimate the costs of a project, and how to create a visual representation of a project’s main delivery dates and milestones via Gantt.

Learning Goals

By the end of this course, you will be able to manage a project phase by phase. 

You will be able to: 

• Recognize the components of key project management frameworks, models, and methodologies.
• Identify when to apply project management methodology within product management.
• Explain how to identify and communicate with stakeholders.
• Detail frameworks for carrying out feasibility studies.
• Explain how to write a business case, a project charter, and a project plan.
• Describe how to initiate and plan a project.
• Calculate the cost of a project. 
• Describe how to execute, monitor, and close a project.

Table of contents

Part #1 – Learn the Fundamentals of Project Management

1. Discover the Fundamentals of Project Management

2. Discover the Project Management Lifecycle

3. Identify when a project management approach is appropriate for a product manager

4. Identify and Communicate with Project Stakeholders

 Quiz: Learn the Fundamentals of Project Management

Part #2 – Initiate & Plan a Project

1. Write a Business Case that Supports Project Initiation

2. Write a Feasibility Study

3. Write a Project Charter

4. Budget and Cost a Project Plan

5. Write a Project Plan

 Quiz: Initiate & Plan a Project

Part #3 – Execute a Project Plan & Monitor Project Progress

1. Manage the Executing Phase of the Project Management Lifecycle

2. Monitor Project Progress

3. Close a Project

 Quiz: Execute a Project Plan & Monitor Project Progress

Certificate of achievement (see example)