Creative Project Management

About this course

Good creative work depends on good project management: clear briefs, realistic schedules, controlled revisions and clean handoffs. This course gives freelancers and small teams a lightweight method using free or low-cost tools. You'll write a creative brief, break work into phases and tasks, schedule with buffers, manage approvals and revision rounds, track time and budget, handle changes, deliver files and run a short post-project review.

Who it’s for: Freelancers, small studio teams and in-house creatives who juggle several projects. Some client or team experience helpful.

You will be able to

• Write a creative brief that a collaborator could work from
• Build a phased schedule with milestones, dependencies and buffers
• Manage revision rounds and approvals with written sign-off
• Track time against an estimate and report project status
• Run a post-project review and record improvements

Studio project

A fully documented creative project run from brief to post-project review using a lightweight project management method.

To complete this course

• Complete every required lesson.
• Have the assignment “Plan and run a project” accepted by an instructor.
• Records of completion are issued only for courses whose content has passed instructor review.

Part of

• Freelance Design Business Program