Digital Project Management

If you want to switch careers and manage digital or creative projects for a living, manage your own creative projects better or simply bolster your current PM career, this course is for you.

In just 12 weeks, you will learn the fundamental skills needed to begin or accelerate your career in digital project management. Acquire essential knowledge and methods so that you walk away with experience and skills that are increasingly in huge demand by employers.

You’ll be taught and coached by expert professional project managers on all the key skills and knowledge needed to start or power up a career in digital project management.

By the end of the course you will have:

• A thorough understanding of project management process (agile and waterfall).
• Practical experience using digital project management systems and tools.
• Ability to confidently plan projects and define a Minimum Viable Product.
• Improve essential core skills in communication and presentation.
• Improve efficiency with automations and integrated processes.

The course contents are THE key skills needed and valued by businesses. These are derived from a consensus from team leaders and employers from a wide variety of teams and companies. We will demonstrate practical skills in project management that you can start using straight away - this is a course by doers, for doers.

All sessions are devised, reviewed and delivered by professionals from the tech industry and are under constant review and improvement to ensure they are as relevant and current as possible.

The course is made up of 16, 3-hour sessions running over a 12 week period, during which we will cover:

• Understanding Projects and Workflows.
• Time Management.
• Introduction to Testing.
• Procedures and Automation.
• Roles and Resourcing in Digital Projects.
• Understanding The Customer and Briefs.
• The Project/Product Life Cycle.
• Defining an MVP.
• Understanding Agile.
• A Scrum Workshop (with Lego).

These are delivered remotely and we provide options to attend outside of working hours to make it easier to fit around your existing commitments.

These sessions are supplemented with additional guided but self led learning, shorter ‘lunch-and-learn’ sessions on key skills and knowledge as well as ad hoc 1-1 support and coaching.

This is the course for you if you want to learn the crucial skills required to plan and run creative and digital projects.

• You could already work as a PM but are looking to brush up and solidify your skills and knowledge.
• You might be seeking a career change with an expansive set of transferable skills.
• Or you might be a creative business owner or team leader wishing to develop and increase your knowledge and capabilities.

Whatever position you find yourself in, sign up today to acquire the vital skills and experience needed to excel in the project management sphere

There are no prerequisites for this course other than a suitable level of digital literacy - e.g. use of email, word processing and spreadsheets.

You do not need any formal qualifications. We are looking for aptitude and enthusiasm. If you are an organised person with good attention to detail who likes to drive a project forwards, that will be enough for us.