Charter.

// track 01 · 8 lessons · ~42 min

Foundations.

First day on the job.

The vocabulary, frameworks, and mental models every project / product / scrum manager needs before doing anything else. Eight short lessons covering what a PM is, the three levels (project / program / portfolio), the four roles you'll meet, PMBOK 7e in five minutes, lifecycle models from waterfall to hybrid, the triple constraint, stakeholder mapping, and how a project actually ends.

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    01.01

    What is project management?

    Direct work toward an outcome under constraint.

    4 min
  2. 01.02

    Project vs Program vs Portfolio

    Same word, three scopes — and three different jobs.

    5 min
  3. 01.03

    PM vs PdM vs Scrum Master vs TPM

    Four roles that share a syllable and almost nothing else.

    6 min
  4. 01.04

    PMBOK in 5 minutes

    What's actually in PMI's flagship reference, without the jargon.

    6 min
  5. 01.05

    Lifecycle models — Waterfall, Iterative, Spiral, Agile, Hybrid

    Five different shapes a project's life can take.

    7 min
  6. 01.06

    The Triple Constraint

    Scope, time, cost — and the quality corner everyone forgets.

    5 min
  7. 01.07

    Stakeholders 101

    Who decides, who blocks, who you forgot about.

    5 min
  8. 01.08

    How a project ends

    Closure, handoff, retrospective — the parts new PMs skip.

    4 min

// canonical reading for this track

Beyond what we wrote.

These are the primary sources our lessons draw from. If you want to go deep on this track, start here.

// put it into practice

Reading is half the work.

The simulator drops you into real PM scenarios so the concepts from these lessons stop being abstract.