BUSINESS & LEARNING

Project Management Academy

Learn project management by running the Lantern Library, a made-up project to turn an old tram depot into a community library. Six modules and 18 lessons: what a project is, the charter and SMART objectives, stakeholders, the work breakdown structure, three-point (PERT) estimating, the critical path, budgets, earned value, change control, risks and responses, quality, agile and Scrum, velocity and burndown, Kanban and flow, RACI, communication and closing. Eight simulations: charter and stakeholder grid, PERT estimates, finding the critical path with a Gantt chart, a month-six earned-value check, the risk register with expected monetary value, sprints with a burndown, a Kanban board with and without WIP limits, and fixing a RACI matrix. Practice with new figures every time.

Ready to try · Learn project management by running the Lantern Library, a made-up project to turn an old tram depot into a community library. Six modules and 18 lessons: what a project is, the charter and SMART objectives, stakeholders, the work breakdown structure, three-point (PERT) estimating, the critical path, budgets, earned value, change control, risks and responses, quality, agile and Scrum, velocity and burndown, Kanban and flow, RACI, communication and closing. Eight simulations: charter and stakeholder grid, PERT estimates, finding the critical path with a Gantt chart, a month-six earned-value check, the risk register with expected monetary value, sprints with a burndown, a Kanban board with and without WIP limits, and fixing a RACI matrix. Practice with new figures every time.