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Defeating Busy
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Free certificate
- 7 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
Chapter 1: Why Is Estimating And Managing Your Time Important?
An introduction to what we will cover in the course and why it’s being covered. Will include examples of the outcomes of good and bad time management, and how it can affect projects and your personal time.
Chapter 2: Estimating Your Time On Projects
Knowing just how long something will take you might seem impossible. It’s not! With the use of simple work breakdown tactics, very basic project planning-and even the use of some historical data-you can come up with a pretty solid estimate. This section will present a process for dissecting how much time you will need to accomplish discrete tasks-for research, UX design, visual design, and development.
Chapter 3: A Sample Freelance Gig
Brett walks through a real-world scenario of a designer estimating how much time it will take to design and build a small business website
Chapter 4: Tracking Your Time
This will be a quick lesson on best practices for setting up and tracking your time using the time tracking mechanism of your choice. We’ll cover selected apps and features and recommendations on usage.
Chapter 5: The To-Do List Is Your New BFF
You'll learn why you should record and track all of your tasks, large and small. You'll also discover tactics for meaningfully prioritizing your to-do list items. This section will also cover a review of a few to-do list applications that might help you manage your tasks and time.
Chapter 6: Solid Communication
The foundation to doing anything successfully in life is grounded in solid communications practices. This section will offer guidance on how you can best communicate with your team, and how those communications can improve how you plan and use your working time.
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Brett recaps the topics you have covered and sends you on your way to defeat busy!
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Brett Harned
Brett Harned is a digital project management consultant, writer, and speaker from Philadelphia, PA and founder of the Digital PM Summit, a conference for Digital Project Managers. His most recent role was as the Vice President of Project Management at Happy Cog (Philadelphia). During his tenure at Happy Cog, Brett worked with Zappos.com, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Delaware Valley College, Monotype Imaging, MTV, and others.
Prior to joining Happy Cog, Brett served as Senior Project Manager at Razorfish. There, he managed large multi-disciplinary teams focused on creating digital strategies for companies such as Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Aetna. Brett blogs about the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of project management at brettharned.com.
Editor
Aquent Gymnasium offers free, online courses for digital, creative, and communications professionals to equip them with in-demand skills and advance their careers.
Why free? Lifelong learning is central to Aquent’s cultural values and finds its way into almost all of our business strategies. Because we’ve always known that there is a clear connection between learning and career advancement, Gymnasium was created to serve both our talent and our clients in meeting the demand for skilled professionals. To date, hundreds of newly-certified professionals have been placed in roles with our clients.
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Aquent Gymnasium offers free, online courses for digital, creative, and communications professionals to equip them with in-demand skills and advance their careers.
Why free? Lifelong learning is central to Aquent’s cultural values and finds its way into almost all of our business strategies. Because we’ve always known that there is a clear connection between learning and career advancement, Gymnasium was created to serve both our talent and our clients in meeting the demand for skilled professionals. To date, hundreds of newly-certified professionals have been placed in roles with our clients.
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