Achievements Archives - Jen Clarke https://jsclarke.com/category/achievements/ Content strategy + content design Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:35:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://jsclarke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-comma-32x32.png Achievements Archives - Jen Clarke https://jsclarke.com/category/achievements/ 32 32 Project management principles and practices https://jsclarke.com/project-management-principles-and-practices/ Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:24:20 +0000 https://jsclarke.com/?p=81347 Via Coursera, I completed a specialization in project management principles and practices offered by the University of California, Irvine. The program is just right for professionals who want to better understand the role of a PM and incorporate some of their practices in their own work before investing in a project management certification. The program […]

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]]> Via Coursera, I completed a specialization in project management principles and practices offered by the University of California, Irvine. The program is just right for professionals who want to better understand the role of a PM and incorporate some of their practices in their own work before investing in a project management certification.

The program covers initating and planning, budgeting and scheduling, and change and risk management, concluding with a capstone project.

The capstone requires learners to manage a real or made-up project and is peer-graded on seven artifacts:

  • Project charter
  • Work breakdown structure (WBS)
  • Sequence
  • Schedule
  • Budget
  • Risk assessment
  • Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)

I created a full-blown Gantt chart, budget spreadsheet, a RACI with dropdowns, plus a WBS and sequencing diagram in Miro for a yearlong celebration of my imaginary company’s 40th anniversary. I may have committed some scope creep with the scale of my submission, but I’m excited to apply what I learned to future content strategy projects.

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