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A Software Developer’s Leadership Master Class
A new blended eLearning self-study or semester* course that explains project management
* can accommodate quarterly systems, too!
The Art of Technical Project Management
It takes a highly-focused, talented, and collaborative team to deliver successful products to market. That’s where the importance of project management comes in. This textbook (and associated material) guides you through understanding the dynamics between planning, process, and people to produce products.
Ken Whitaker is on a mission to prepare tech folks entering the job market to learn how teams and projects should work. Soooooo, he is knee-deep creating Young Person’s Guide to Project Management (YPG-PM). This blended learning course (textbook, videos, and class exercises) teaches project management to young adults and those being retrained for a new career. This project is to be released in 2021.
Why This Course Is Needed
Ken is spending the remainder of 2020 and 2021 writing the book, creating the artwork, and producing the recorded videos. This project will be completed in the 2021 in time for planning for the Fall 2022 school year.
The best part is that a basic version of Young Person's Guide will be available absolutely free.
Blended Learning:
A BluePrint for Success
Combining traditional classroom with online learning and peer interaction results in better learning outcomes. More engaging, more ownership, and more retention. You’ll learn the fundamentals of project management, traditional and agile, in easy to understand language taking advantage of words, figures, and videos.
For Students
This book can be a self-paced reference guide, the textbook used in a classroom as part of a course curriculum, or as the core workbook in a virtual, eLearning class. Contrary to most boring management books, this visual approach will make learning fun.
The “Measuring Individual Performance” topic is available as a free preview. In the “Self-Study” section of the chapter, click the URL to view the lesson’s video highlights. No login is required. The student textbook is available in lay-flat paperback and eBook (PDF/Kindle).
To make sure this course finds its way into everyoneʼs hands, the basic student version (without videos, quizzes, and downloads) will be available absolutely free!
READ A CHAPTER FROM
THE STUDENT TEXTBOOK
For the Instructor
A special instructor’s edition of Young Person’s Guide to Project Management has additional information in order to successfully teach the course. This is designed for learning the fundamentals of project management over the period of a semester (or accelerated in a quarter) in school. All you need is a computer, video projector, and an Internet connection (for viewing video shorts).
In the “Self-Study” section of the chapter, click the URL to view the lesson’s video highlights and to download the slides used to instruct the class. The instructor notes are at the end of the chapter on the pages with a light blue background. The instructor guide book is available as an eBook (PDF/Kindle).
READ A CHAPTER FROM
THE INSTRUCTOR GUIDE
What You Get
Courseware books provide the core material for self-paced learning. Blended learning, like Young Person’s Guide to Project Management, turns the book into a workbook with so much more.
The workbook is organized as a sequence of lessons stock full of learning content, case studies, team (class) exercises, and a test-your-knowledge review. For homework, there is an online video with a short quiz and documents you can download. Video lessons can be viewed on browsers on desktop, laptop, and tablets (closed captioning available).
Topic Structure
There are over 40 topics in the book with a chapter dedicated to each topic. Each topic takes two 45-minute to one hour classes (live classroom or webcast) to cover and follows a consistent structure:
For each topic, the first day of a one-hour class covers (1) learning objectives, (2) instruction material, and (3) case studies. For homework, the student watches (4) the video, takes a short quiz, and downloads the attachments.
In the next class, everyone participates with (5) team exercises and a (6) test your knowledge (T-Y-K) question and answer period. This helps reinforce that a topic’s learning objectives have been met. The book includes a (7) “References” section that lists other books, videos, websites, and articles for further information.
Would you like to learn how YPG-PM was designed and produced? Then, click/tap the bultton:
Overview of the Course
Click on the figure to read a short overview document:
Let’s Play a Game
To complement the course, there will a special game set available for The Nerd Herd Game entitled “Young Person’s Guide to Project Management.” This incredible gamification product reinforces each chapter in a fast-paced game (sold separately). Students learn when it is fun!
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ASK KEN ABOUT YOUNG PERSON’S GUIDE
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