How to Become a Project Manager: 6 Steps
December 6, 2024
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Familiarity with Project Management
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Beginner level
Familiarity with Project Management
Create an account with Wrike and understand the basic platform organization
Create Spaces, Folder and Projects as well as create and assign tasks to team members.
Create a Calendar to access the task durations and dates for a project.
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Only available on desktop
Wrike is a versatile and customizable project management software that enables teams to coordinate tasks, track workflows and allows for easy and dynamic communication between team members. By the end of this project, you will learn about the utility of this digital project management tool, how to set up an account on Wrike and invite users to your workspace. You will familiarize yourself with the dashboard organization, learn how to create spaces, folders and projects, as well as creating tasks within a project. You will practice editing the task details and using the different view options to keep track of the tasks. Finally, you will learn how to use the calendar within Wrike, and how to create a calendar filter to show the tasks for a given project.
In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:
Create an account with Wrike
Familiarize yourself with the Wrike dashboard and add new users to your workspace
Create Spaces in Wrike
Create Folders and Projects in Wrike
Create and edits Tasks in Wrike and visualize tasks in the Board and Gantt Chart view modes.
Create a Calendar in Wrike to view Tasks for a Project
Familiarity with Project Management
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Practice new skills by completing job-related tasks.
Expert guidance
Follow along with pre-recorded videos from experts using a unique side-by-side interface.
No downloads or installation required
Access the tools and resources you need in a pre-configured cloud workspace.
Available only on desktop
This Guided Project is designed for laptops or desktop computers with a reliable Internet connection, not mobile devices.
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Because your workspace contains a cloud desktop that is sized for a laptop or desktop computer, Guided Projects are not available on your mobile device.
Guided Project instructors are subject matter experts who have experience in the skill, tool or domain of their project and are passionate about sharing their knowledge to impact millions of learners around the world.
You can download and keep any of your created files from the Guided Project. To do so, you can use the “File Browser” feature while you are accessing your cloud desktop.
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You'll learn by doing through completing tasks in a split-screen environment directly in your browser. On the left side of the screen, you'll complete the task in your workspace. On the right side of the screen, you'll watch an instructor walk you through the project, step-by-step.