Project Management for Designers

Course details

For designers juggling a slew of clients and projects, project management is a critical tool that can help them stay organized, prioritize, collaborate, and keep up with the current tasks at hand. In this course, instructor Justin Ahrens provides designers with a framework that can help them keep their projects on track. Justin starts by helping you evaluate current project management areas where you're gifted, as well as where you might be lacking. He then guides you through scheduling and troubleshooting your projects and discusses how great project management impacts team culture and client relations. Justin wraps up the course with a brief discussion of software recommendations.

Learning objectives
Determining your project management strengths and weaknesses
Scheduling
Wrapping up a project
Making project management a priority for your team
Identifying challenges early on
Dealing with client needs
Reviewing outcomes and processes

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Project management for designers

1. It Starts Before You Start

02 - The value of a project well managed
03 - What are you good at
04 - It's more than money
05 - Control what you can

2. Your Process

06 - Onboarding - The lay of the land
07 - The schedule
08 - The milestones
09 - Problem predicting
10 - Finishing strong

3. Your Culture

11 - Do you have a standard
12 - What is your plan for project management
13 - Do you have project and post-project reviews
14 - Make this a job requirement

4. Your Clients

15 - Identifying challenges in the beginning
16 - The askers and the takers
17 - Structured and unstructured
18 - The review, the feedback, and the breakup

Conclusion

19 - Next steps

Project Management for Designers

Authors

Justin Ahrens