Session format:

  • 3–12 months of curriculum and support
  • 3 hrs virtual training sessions and 2 hrs virtual coaching and support each week
  • Practical workshops plus essential & management skill building for the whole team

Program length:

3–8 months

Number of sessions:

6–27

Total training hours:

30–169

Instructors:

See our trainers and support team

Session capacity:

8 participants

Evaluation: (3)

Self-assessment, formative assessment, skills assessment

Certificate upon successful completion:

Louder Than Ten Dig­i­tal Project Management


Modules

Intro to your apprenticeship

The format, outcomes, and expectations for training and a high-level description of the project management role and skillset.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • Function of goal setting
  • Setting up appropriate learning environment and PM foundations
  • Essential skills for immediate impact (writing/editing/listening/process review)
  • Why and how digital is different
  • Core vocabulary

Outcomes

  • Knowledge and skills assessment
  • Anticipated reading/professional development schedule (organized by apprentices)

You, your organization, and your team

Learn about your immediate role as a project coordinator while you’re learning, become familiar with you and your organization’s goals and processes, and contextualize roles on your team.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • Documenting key metrics at the organizational level
  • How to set personal and organizational goals and KPIs
  • The role of the project management coordinator
  • Variability of roles and titles on your team
  • Core vocabulary

Outcomes

  • Personal goals & KPIs
  • Documented organizational metrics and goals
  • A supportive ally within your org

Sales and project intake

The sales & vetting process for stakeholders and projects.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • Exploring the project vetting (and sales) cycle in client services
  • Evaluating client success and project fit
  • Identifying red flags in incoming projects
  • How to setup successful transition meetings
  • Tiny Bio brief and sales assessment simulation

Outcomes

  • Documenting your org’s sales or vetting cycle
  • A work in progress ‘client alignment matrix’ for active clients in your org
  • Practice managing tough conversations during the sales process

Stakeholder onboarding and setup

How to transition a project from sales to project start, onboard your stakeholders, and organize your team.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • Setting the pace and tone of projects
  • How to onboard internal and external stakeholders successfully
  • How to minimize pitfalls in the transition between project ideation and official start
  • Project team roles and functions
  • Eleven team characteristics simulation assessment

Outcomes

  • Stakeholder onboarding checklist
  • Initial welcome email to new project stakeholders

People, roles, and personalities

How the PM role intersects with stakeholders and their quirks.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • Roles of internal and external stakeholders
  • Communication styles
  • Identification and management of team risk
  • The pillars of project management
  • Tiny Bio stakeholder buy-in and alignment simulation

Outcomes

  • RACI matrix
  • Empathy map
  • Developing your project management persona
  • Simulation: scripts to deal with tough Tiny Bio personalities

People skills and team building

How to champion your team and unpack limiting beliefs.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • How limiting beliefs impact your project management approach and how to challenge them
  • How to cultivate emotional intelligence and empathy for project stakeholders
  • How to prioritize and manage tough conversations
  • How to build a stronger, more unified team

Outcomes

  • Limiting beliefs workshop
  • A plan to handle tough conversations with Tiny Bio stakeholders

Discovery, research, and communication plan

How to lead an amazing kickoff, facilitate good research, and assemble a solid communication plan.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • The implementation process for a successful discovery phase (and its related value)
  • How to run a great project kickoff
  • The role and function of research and how to support it
  • The key to writing a solid communication plan

Outcomes

  • Discovery checklist
  • Completing a communication plan
  • Documenting project assumptions

Effortless collaboration

How to execute productive planning sessions, check-ins, retrospectives, and updates.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • The process of planning, facilitating and implementing useful meetings
  • How to foster healthy and meaningful retrospectives
  • How to make space and build in team check-ins
  • Useful tips for managing project updates and reviews

Outcomes

  • Refinements to current meeting and retrospective processes
  • Scripts for handling difficult meeting participants

Project plans and other docs

A first-principles approach to lock down your scope and expectations.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • The function, format, and purpose of project plans
  • How lean documentation can support project scope
  • The role and application of Statement of Work documents
  • Common pitfalls to avoid in documentation

Outcomes

  • Presentation of Tiny Bio project plan
  • Project plan refinements at your organization

Setting your prices

Different types of rates and prices, when to use them, and how to set them.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • How organizations make and spend money (allocations, revenue, cash flow)
  • How revenue and expenses cycles affect forecasting
  • How project leads can support smoother cash flow
  • How project health impacts company health
  • How to set appropriate rates and budgets for internal and client-facing organizations

Outcomes

  • Rate card calculations for your organization
  • Setting Eleven’s target rates during simulation

Intro to project scoping

How to define, simplify, and control the requirements that make up your project.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • The importance and function of scope
  • How to scope projects using different approaches
  • How to avoid the pitfalls of scoping

Outcomes

  • Scoping exercise: Renovate your kitchen
  • Tiny Bio scoping simulation
  • Choosing project plan format

The art of prioritization

How to laser focus your time, and prioritize projects and tasks.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • The true meaning of value for our stakeholder audiences
  • How to prioritize impact vs effort
  • How to prioritize importance vs urgency
  • Tweaking personal and team productivity
  • The role and function of Minimum Valuable Products

Outcomes

  • Setting a weekly team schedule
  • Prioritizing projects within your organization
  • Prioritizing Tiny Bio’s Minimum Valuable Product

Managing scope creep

Turn your best worst enemy into project gold.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • How to identify and classify various types of scope creep
  • How to triage and treat scope creep
  • How to turn scope creep into future phases and better stakeholder relationships
  • Ways to reduce and prevent harmful scope creep

Outcomes

  • Practical scripts for dealing with scope creep
  • Scope creep reduction plan for your organization

Waterfall methodology and the Lean approach

How dependencies and lean principles impact your project.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • Waterfall methodology: what it’s for, when to use it, what to watch out for
  • Lean approach: what it’s for, how to use it best, when to be less Lean
  • Common pitfalls of Waterfall and Lean and how to avoid them

Outcomes

  • Evaluate and refine your organization’s approach to projects

Agile, Kanban, and hybrid

How flexible planning and iterative development impact your project.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • Epics, user stories, sprints, and positioning in Agile
  • How and when to blend the best of Waterfall and Agile into Agifall
  • How to limit works in progress with Kanban
  • How to avoid common pitfalls in Agile, Agifall, and Kanban

Outcomes

  • Refined user stories for Tiny Bio’s projects
  • Rewrite tasks for your organization’s projects

Estimating projects

How to apply smart estimates and useful ranges in project management.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • The similarities and differences between estimating techniques like Monte Carlo, PERT, Rolling Wave, Double-Blind, and Three-Point estimating techniques
  • How to estimate project scope using multiple techniques including planning poker
  • How to avoid the pitfalls of poor estimation

Outcomes

  • Planning poker practice
  • Double-blind estimates for Tiny Bio projects

Risks & red flags

The ins and outs of mitigating risk, recognizing red flags, and applying modifiers to your projects.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • How to recognize red flags that indicate probable risk
  • Identifying and analyzing positive and negative risk
  • How to create a system for red flag assessment and treatment
  • How to avoid common red flags with internal and external stakeholders
  • Scripts for handling tough red flags
  • How red flags impact project estimates

Outcomes

  • Design non-negotiable red flag criteria for your organization
  • Create a risk assessment and mitigation strategy for Tiny Bio’s projects

Project scheduling

Intuitive schedules, time boxing, calendars, and deadlines.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • How to build adaptable schedules for different kinds of projects
  • How Gantt charts, calendars, and milestones can drive a project forward or stall it out
  • How to use your scope and stakeholder needs to build in proper buffers and reviews
  • How time boxing can help you manage project profitability
  • Ways to negotiate additional time for schedules

Outcomes

  • Build a useful Gantt chart for both Waterfall and Agile managed practice projects
  • Practice tough conversations around managing timelines and resetting expectations
  • Review current and future schedules and adjust accordingly within your organization

Resourcing and capacity management

How to plan for the right people, doing the right amount of work, at the right times.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • How to allocate, plan, and buffer resources, materials, and equipment for your projects
  • How to assess stakeholder and contractor availability and involvement
  • How to source and work with contractor talent
  • How to set up optimal capacity across multiple project teams

Outcomes

  • Resourcing and capacity plan for Tiny Bio
  • Resourcing and capacity review of your own projects

Managing changes

Documenting feedback, requests, approvals, and guiding turnarounds.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • How to plan, pace, and respond to team and stakeholder feedback
  • How to automate and simplify the approval process
  • Useful ways to document and track feedback and approvals

Outcomes

  • Checklists and guides for managing changes
  • Responses to feedback on Tiny Bio projects

Minding project metrics

The important project numbers, graphs, and data you need to monitor.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • How to monitor burn rates, resources, KPIs, and staff retention
  • How to stay on top of changes and outcomes
  • Ways to automate and simplify reviews and approvals

Outcomes

  • Optimization of your organization’s metrics and data systems
  • A useful system for monitoring Tiny Bio’s metrics

Maintenance and future phases

The process and agreements required for long-term relationships.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • How to cultivate positive long term partnerships
  • How to plan for an effective launch
  • How to set up a successful maintenance plan and future phases
  • How to build in proper testing and proper quality assurance

Outcomes

  • Maintenance or future phase plan for Tiny Bio
  • Template for maintenance agreements

Future of PM

What’s next for project leads and how to make the most of your learning.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • Areas of focus for future professional development
  • Review of major concepts
  • How to transition to a full project load
  • The growth path of project managers
  • How technology impacts project management’s future

Outcomes

  • Final reflective essay
  • Updated skills assessment
  • Updated KPIs and goals

Project plan presentations

Finesse your PM presentation skills and delivery.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • How to selectively present and share data
  • How to improve tone and delivery
  • How to anticipate audience needs

Outcomes

  • Self and peer assessment
  • Final project plan assignment

Quality assurance & testing

Iterative QA and running effective retrospectives for continuous improvement

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • How to cul­ti­vate pos­i­tive long-term partnerships
  • How to set up a suc­cess­ful plans for future phases
  • How to build in prop­er test­ing and prop­er qual­i­ty assurance
  • How to run effective retrospectives and support continuous improvement

Outcomes

  • Retrospective workshop templates
  • A preliminary plan for how to run retros with your team
  • A retro outcomes follow-up plan
  • The outline for a continuous QA plan for your teams

The art of difficult conversations

How to plan for and approach difficult conversations with your team and stakeholders

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • Com­mu­ni­ca­tion styles
  • How to cul­ti­vate emo­tion­al intel­li­gence and empa­thy for project stakeholders
  • How to pri­or­i­tize and man­age tough conversations

Outcomes

  • Empa­thy map
  • Sim­u­la­tion: scripts to deal with tough personalities
  • Difficult conversation planning checklist
  • Scripts for generating alignment

Expert communication

How to build communication plans, create effective and valuable communication, and plan for difficult conversations

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • The process of planning project communications
  • How to determine when and how communication happens
  • How to foster team-wide, healthy project communication
  • How to prepare for tough conversations

Outcomes

  • Empa­thy map
  • Communication guidelines
  • “Scripts for tough conversations” handbook
  • Map of internal and client project communications

Running retrospectives

Iterative QA and running effective retrospectives for continuous improvement

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • How to cul­ti­vate pos­i­tive long-term partnerships
  • How to set up a suc­cess­ful plans for future phases
  • How to build in prop­er test­ing and prop­er qual­i­ty assurance
  • How to run effective retrospectives and support continuous improvement

Outcomes

  • Retrospective workshop templates
  • A preliminary plan for how to run retros with your team
  • A retro outcomes follow-up plan
  • The outline for a continuous QA plan for your teams

Trust building

How we support our company, our project teams, and our client teams in building healthy patterns of communication, problem-solving, collaboration, and trust.

Learning objectives

Students will learn:

  • How to cul­ti­vate emo­tion­al intel­li­gence and empa­thy for project stakeholders
  • How to pri­or­i­tize and man­age tough conversations
  • How to build a stronger, more uni­fied team

Outcomes

  • Peo­ple skills work­shop to do with your team
  • A plan to han­dle tough con­ver­sa­tions with Tiny Bio stakeholders
  • Tools and exercises to build self trust, team trust, leadership trust, external stakeholder trust
  • Map of when to deploy alignment tools in the course of a project
  • Operating manual for self
  • Alignment plan with clients, team, and executives/clients

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