A practical course on running projects and product work with the Startup Template Library’s Project Management Templates Pack, Agile & Roadmap Templates Pack, Product Roadmap Template, Product Requirements Document Template, and User Story Template. It covers scoping work, planning in sprints, writing requirements people can build from, keeping a roadmap honest, running the few meetings that matter, and reporting progress without theater. Built for teams of two to fifteen, not enterprise PMOs.

Modules

Scoping Work Before Planning It

Lessons

• The Project Charter in One Page Preview
• Breaking Work Into Deliverables
• Estimating With Ranges and Confidence

Roadmaps That Tell the Truth

Lessons

• Now Next Later Instead of Dates
• Themes Problems and Outcomes
• Saying No With the Roadmap

Writing Requirements Engineers Can Build

Lessons

• The PRD Template Section by Section
• Writing User Stories That Are Testable
• Definition of Ready and Definition of Done

Sprints on a Small Team

Lessons

• Choosing a Sprint Length
• Sprint Planning in Sixty Minutes
• Retrospectives That Change Something

Meetings Worth Keeping

Lessons

• The Daily Check-In Without the Status Theater
• Stakeholder Updates on a Cadence
• Running a Useful Review Meeting

Tracking and Reporting Progress

Lessons

• The Kanban Board as the Single Source of Truth
• Risk and Issue Logs
• Closing a Project and Capturing Lessons