What you'll learn

  • Have your products go more smoothly, on time and on budget

  • Manage and complete software projects

  • Increase the chances of success for your business by properly managing your developers to ensure that the project gets completed with high quality

  • Understand different software project management methodologies so you can use the right one for your project

  • Save money and time on not hiring wrong developers and not mis-managing the projects

  • Use project management productivity tools like Trello

Description

If you are a solopreneur or a small business owner, learn project management fundamentals for small businesses, and complete your projects successfully, on time, and on budget. Learn business prioritization and decision-making Learn to use Trello productivity and project management software Hire the best freelancers and make sure they deliver successful projects Master early team building WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR Engineers who need to manage their projects better Non-technical start-up founders who need to manage their technical co-founders or freelance developers whom they hire

Who this course is for:

Software Project Management For Start-ups And Solopreneurs

  • Entrepreneurs and non-technical start-up founders looking to improve their project management and productivity skills

  • Engineers looking to grow their skills beyond just programming and learn small project management

Course curriculum

  1. 1
  2. 2

    • Choosing your large goals and ways to get to them

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    • Examples and case studies of how I choose my projects

    • Difference of knowing the right tasks and guessing

    • Eisenhower box introduction

    • Furthering our thinking in task prioritization with automation, delegation, etc

    • Psychology of happiness to help us prioritize tasks

    • Example: How I turn important tasks to Eisenhower matrix to a schedule I follow

    • Exponential productivity results from some tasks
  3. 3

    • Section introduction and signing up for Trello

    • Creating a new board and inviting people to it

    • Working with tasks and creating todo lists

    • Starting to work with your team in Trello

    • Paid Trello options
  4. 4

    • Introduction to delegation and working with freelancers

    • How to begin working with a new developer or a new technical co-founder

    • Pros and cons of Fiverr vs. UpWork & what to look for before hiring

    • Beginner budgeting and looking past your product launch

    • Cheap is not cheap

    • Everyday life things that you can outsource
  5. 5
  6. 6

    • What is extreme programming and when it is great to use

    • Examples: How I used MVP and extreme programming in non-programming development
  7. 7

    • Hiring developers that are good at front end, back end or both
  8. 8
  9. 9

    • 4 happiness hormones and how they affect our productivity, motivation and mood
  10. 10

    • Productivity apps section introduction

    • Pomodoro app and Chrome plugin

    • Social media automation