The Art of Technical Project Management
(AKA Young Person’s Guide to Project Management)
With over ten years putting on live workshops and the author of several books on technical project management with a focus on agile concepts, Ken is creating The Art of Technical Project Management. This blended learning course includes everything you need in a combined classroom and self-directed online class (textbook, videos, quizzes, and downloadable templates).
Designed to instruct high schoolers, tech college, and college folks (particularly girls) about the importance of project management, this course is well-suited for those being retrained to a career in technology.
Why this course is needed
“It is high time that young adults (and those reinventing their careers) enter the job market with an appreciation of project management.
Project management no longer has to be memorizing boring material. This is the reference on management I've always wanted to write and illustrate.”
Learn project management from traditional to agile
The Art of Technical Project Management has been designed for how you want to learn: self-paced, live classroom, or blended learning. Who says learning can’t be fun with a textbook jam-packed with illustrations, quizzes, and videos?
Student edition
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 or blended learning class. Contrary to most boring management books, this visual approach makes learning fun.
The best part is that a basic student self-study edition of the course will be available absolutely free! The videos, downloads, and quiz just won’t be included.
Instructor edition
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).
What makes this manuscript design unique? The source material for both the student and instructor editions are in a single InDesign book. The design also accommodates output formats for paperback and online (PDF) viewing.
Sample video
Watch this 3-minute video of a sample lesson from The Art of Technical Project Management course (including closed captioning and an integrated quiz):
To be crowdfunded soon …
The design of the textbook is complete. Course material is being created and videos are being recorded and mastered.
Ken writing the workbook, creating the artwork, and producing the recorded videos. For an over 300-page textbook, that is a whole lotta work. The video recording creation is in development.
To use classroom-based gamification learning techniques, “The Art of Tech Project Management” game set will be available when The Nerd Herd Game is released.