Project Management Skill Boost: The Team & Stakeholder List

Learn to build & use the powerful, flexible Team & Stakeholder List (TSL)™ tool and improve your project skills

What you'll learn

How to improve and show your project management skills by learning a valuable new tool & technique for managing teams across multiple organizations

How to build and maintain a powerful Team & Stakeholder List (TSL) using simple tools (spreadsheets and email)

How to use the TSL to support all facets of team and stakeholder management on complex, multi-organization initiatives (projects, programs)

How to apply useful techniques that are platform and methodology agnostic: Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel; Waterfall, Agile, or Hybrid

How to look like a rock star to your project colleagues and superiors – whether you are an aspiring, new, or intermediate PM, PA, PCO, or other supporting role

How to modify and extend the powerful TSL template provided, a portable technique you'll be able to use anywhere you work

Requirements

Some experience working on, supporting, or managing projects or initiatives involving large numbers of people and multiple organizations

Intermediate familiarity with spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets) and email (Microsoft Outlook or Gmail)

Access to Microsoft Excel (suggested) or Google Sheets, in order to use the templates provided and complete the exercises

Description

Level-up your project management skills: Learn to build and use a powerful, flexible tool – the Team & Stakeholder List (TSL)™, either starting from the fully-fledged TSL template provided or by building your own.Using the TSL will help you support all facets of team and stakeholder management on complex, multi-organization initiatives (projects, programs), get organized, save time, and make you look like a rock star to your project colleagues and superiors – whether you are an aspiring, new, or intermediate Project Manager (PM), Project Analyst (PA), Project Coordinator/ Project Control Officer (PCO), other other supporting role in the PMO (Project Management Office), or any role that gets things done on any type of initiative being delivered by large numbers of people across multiple organizations: Product Owner, Scrum Master, Business Analyst, Team Lead, etc.Apply the TSL in your current job and in just about any future job because the TSL is more of a highly portable "technique" than an actual tool:The TSL is methodology agnostic: It doesn't matter whether the initiatives you work on are Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, or Hybrid.The TSL is also platform agnostic: It relies on basic applications (spreadsheets and email), so it works just as well using Excel and Outlook in Microsoft Office 365 as it does with Sheets and Gmail in Google Workspace.This course is entirely practical (not theoretical), bringing you tips and tricks that are hard to pick up from other practitioners – and that you definitely won't learn while studying for the PMP, CSM , or other necessary but theory-heavy designations.Apply this course to 3.5 PDUs (Professional Development Units) or more, depending on how much time you devote to the exercises.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction: Housekeeping & Overview

Section 2: Why a TSL is useful, and needed

Lecture 2 Why a TSL is useful & needed – shown by exploring the sample TSL from Lecture #1

Section 3: Building, Using, and Automating a TSL

Lecture 3 Building a Basic TSL, Part 1

Lecture 4 Building a Basic TSL, Part 2

Lecture 5 Building a Basic TSL, Part 3

Lecture 6 Building a Basic TSL, Part 4

Lecture 7 Using a TSL

Lecture 8 Automating a TSL, Part 1

Lecture 9 Automating a TSL, Part 2

Section 4: Maintaining a TSL

Lecture 10 Maintaining the TSL document

Lecture 11 Storing and sharing the TSL

Section 5: Wrapping up

Lecture 12 Wrap-up

Section 6: (Optional) Google Sheets: minor differences from MS Excel

Lecture 13 For Google Sheets users: a few tiny differences from MS Excel to be aware of

Junior/Intermediate Project Managers (PMs), Project Analysts (PAs), Project Coordinators/Project Control Officers (PCOs),Also useful for anyone involved in sleeves-up work in today’s digital-first, remote workplace: Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Team Leads, etc.