Managing Software Projects

Card type mix

• multiple choice: 68
• true false: 35
• select blank: 35
• order: 7
• multi select: 2

What's covered

1. What a Software Project Manager Does
2. Project vs Product vs Program
3. The Iron Triangle: Scope, Time, Cost
4. Mapping Your Stakeholders
5. Writing a Project Charter
6. Waterfall: When It Still Makes Sense
7. Agile Values and Principles
8. Scrum Roles and Ceremonies
9. Sprint Planning Basics
10. Kanban Fundamentals
11. Scrumban: Mixing Scrum and Kanban
12. Choosing a Methodology for Your Team
13. Work Breakdown Structures
14. Story Points vs Time Estimates
15. Planning Poker
16. The Critical Path Method
17. Buffering for Uncertainty
18. Burndown and Burnup Charts
19. Tracking Team Velocity
20. Managing Scope Creep
21. Running a Good Daily Standup
22. Backlog Grooming
23. Identifying and Mitigating Risk
24. Technical Debt as a Project Risk
25. Writing a Definition of Done
26. Setting Quality Gates
27. Leading Without Authority
28. Running Effective Retrospectives
29. Managing Remote and Distributed Teams
30. Resolving Conflict on a Project Team
31. Reporting Status to Executives
32. Project Management Tools Overview
33. Managing Change Requests
34. Project Closure and Postmortems
35. Common Project Failure Patterns

Example cards

Latest: Initial release — 35 decks, 182 cards, each pack with a preview card teaching the concept before its graded main card and practice cards.