The Ultimate Project Manager's Essentials Bundle

This bundle includes downloadable course instructor files and exercise files to work with and follow along with, plus LIFETIME access.

This mega-value eight-course bundle gets you full access to courses on project software and services you need to manage your projects successfully.

Whether your project is big or small, business or personal, there are so many options now to ensure your success. Harness the power of Microsoft Project, Project for the Web, Monday, Jira, Confluence, and Asana to become a project master.

There are no prerequisites to the courses besides access to the applications taught in this bundle and an eagerness to learn.

What's included?

Getting Started in Jira:

• The different versions of Jira

• Basics of agile methodology

• Key agile and Jira terminology

• Navigating Jira’s interface

• How to create and customize a team-managed project

• Using a company-managed project

• Team-managed project vs. company-managed project

• How to create and manage Scrum boards and Kanban boards

• How to create issues and the various issue types

• Creating filters

• Using dashboards

• Jira’s reports and roadmaps

• User management

• Understanding workflows

• Understanding how schemes work

• Creating custom fields

• Automation basics

• Jira system administration overview

• Customizing Jira using the administrative back end

Introduction to Confluence:

• What is Confluence?

• Key Confluence terms and concepts

• Understanding the differences between Confluence and Jira

• Getting familiar with Confluence's interface

• Creating, using, and deleting Personal Spaces

• Creating, navigating, and managing Team Spaces

• Task management in Confluence

• How to use the Confluence mobile app

• Working with teams in Confluence

• Managing files in Spaces

• Using Confluence’s administrative back end

• Overview of Confluence user management

• Controlling user permissions in Confluence

• Using Jira and Confluence together

• How to export and back up Spaces.

Monday for Beginners:

• Setting up an account and logging in for the first time

• An overview of the Monday user interface

• How to create and delete boards

• Essential columns and board templates

• Adding data to boards and connecting boards

• Searching, sorting, and filtering board data

• How to add additional board views

• Using calendar, workload, form, Kanban, and Gantt board views

• Working with notifications, inbox, and my work

• How to share a full board on a public URL

• Creating dashboards and adding basic widgets

• Printing and presenting dashboards

• How to add automation and integrations to a board

Introduction to Asana:

• How to create Projects and Tasks in Asana

• Layouts in Asana

• Using the My Task and Inbox view in Asana

• How to collaborate in Asana and how to set who sees what

• How to use Custom Fields in Asana

• All about the different views in Asana

• Forms in Asana

• How to use Search and Advanced Search in Asana

• About using Portfolios and Goals

• How to get to grips with the Admin Console

Asana for Employees and Managers:

• Set up your Asana profile and add a picture

• Work with My Tasks (for both employees and managers)

• Achieve “Inbox zero” in Asana

• Utilize the search and reporting features

• Create, edit, and collaborate on a task

• Maximize Asana with some helpful productivity tips

• Define conventions as a manager

• Manage project members, status updates, and portfolios

• Keep an account healthy

Microsoft Project 2019 Beginners:

• The MS Project 2019 workspace and the ribbon, help, and Project options

• Navigate project calendars, timelines, and critical paths

• Setting up tasks and dependencies between them, including lag and lead times

• Managing project costs, leveling, and resolving resource over-allocations

• Project security and saving and protecting Project files

• Useful techniques for tracing task paths to simplify unruly Gantt charts

• Setting up baselines and interim plans

• How to work with costs and deadlines and overcome scheduling issues

• Saving your project as a template for future projects

Microsoft Project 2019 Advanced:

• About resource sharing including setting up a resource pool across projects

• How to consolidate different projects into a single project

• How to set up recurring tasks to save you time

• About custom fields and how to automate calculations in a custom field

• How Outline and WBS codes work and how to use them in your project

• How to properly manage costs including setting fixed costs, budgets, variable costs, and overtime

• How custom tables and custom views work

• Detail on advanced sorting, filtering, and grouping

• Creating customized reports, and charts and how to edit certain elements of a report

• About Earned Value Analysis

• How to import and export data from Excel, Word, and Notepad

• Using macros in Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project for the Web:

• Explain what Project for the Web is and why it is useful

• Compare Planner, Project for the Web, and Project Online

• Differentiate between the different Project Plans

Microsoft Planner

• Create a plan in Microsoft Planner from scratch and from an Outlook group

• Add members to a plan

• Create and edit task details

• Organize tasks into buckets and assign labels

• Update task progress and priority

• Attach files to tasks

• Access plans from Microsoft Teams

• Use Smart Backgrounds

• Export a plan to Excel

Project for the Web

• Navigate the Project for the Web interface

• Import a project from Project Online

• Create a Project from a template and from scratch

• Customize column headings

• Set the Start and End dates of a Project

• Create new tasks and assign members to tasks

• Add structure with summary and subtasks

• Use Timeline view to modify tasks

• Update task progress

• Add attachments, notes, and checklist items

• Group tasks into custom buckets

• Create task dependencies

• Categorize tasks with labels

• Hide and remove columns

• Share projects and tasks with others

• Visualize project plans in a Microsoft Teams channel

• Create a project roadmap

Project for the Web: Reporting with Power BI

• Create a connection between Power BI and Project for the Web (Dataverse)

• Locate and download the Power BI reporting template

• Navigate the Power BI interface

• Understand how visualizations are built and formatted

• Create slicers to filter report data

• Work with tables and matrix tables

• Update/refresh report data

• Build a custom report

• Publish a report to the Power BI service

• Create a dashboard to display key metrics.

This course bundle includes:

1. 34+ hours of video tutorials

2. 300+ individual video lectures

3. Certificate of completion

4. Course and Exercise files to help you follow along