// 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.
- 14 min01.01
What is project management?
Direct work toward an outcome under constraint.
- 5 min01.02
Project vs Program vs Portfolio
Same word, three scopes — and three different jobs.
- 6 min01.03
PM vs PdM vs Scrum Master vs TPM
Four roles that share a syllable and almost nothing else.
- 6 min01.04
PMBOK in 5 minutes
What's actually in PMI's flagship reference, without the jargon.
- 7 min01.05
Lifecycle models — Waterfall, Iterative, Spiral, Agile, Hybrid
Five different shapes a project's life can take.
- 5 min01.06
The Triple Constraint
Scope, time, cost — and the quality corner everyone forgets.
- 5 min01.07
Stakeholders 101
Who decides, who blocks, who you forgot about.
- 4 min01.08
How a project ends
Closure, handoff, retrospective — the parts new PMs skip.
// 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.