// track 04 · 8 lessons · ~40 min
Tools & Artifacts.
Risk registers, Gantts, RACIs, PRDs.
The artifacts you'll actually fill out as a PM, taught one tool at a time. Risk register beyond P×I (residual risk, contingency reserves), Kanban classes of service + CFDs, Gantt baseline tracking + buffer placement, RACI without the matrix theater, modern PRDs (no longer 50-page specs), three prioritization frameworks side-by-side (RICE, WSJF, MoSCoW), sprint metrics that lie when read alone, and OKRs vs KPIs — Grove's original rules.
- 15 min04.01
Risk Register — deep dive
Beyond P×I: residual risk, contingency reserves, secondary risks.
- 5 min04.02
Kanban Board — deep dive
Setting WIP limits, classes of service, cumulative flow.
- 5 min04.03
Gantt Chart — deep dive
Dependencies, buffers, baseline tracking.
- 4 min04.04
RACI Matrix
Who does, who decides, who's consulted, who's told.
- 5 min04.05
PRD / Product brief
The doc that aligns engineering on what to build and why.
- 5 min04.06
Roadmap — RICE, WSJF, MoSCoW
Three frameworks for the same hard question: what next.
- 5 min04.07
Sprint metrics — velocity, burndown, cumulative flow
Three charts every team has, three sets of failure modes.
- 6 min04.08
OKRs + KPIs
Goals (OKRs) and ongoing health metrics (KPIs) — same idea, different jobs.
// 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.