This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

A project plan that worked in an office quietly stops working when the team is spread across four time zones. Nothing dramatic happens; things just take longer and nobody knows why. Here are 303 tools to make the plan travel: 171 ready-to-use procedures, templates, checklists and question lists, 87 models and methods, 44 services shown on screen and a remote status signals card.

Open a lecture, take the checklist, and apply it to your current remote project.

Why remote projects slow down

Decisions that took a corridor conversation now take a day of messages. People work at different hours, status is unclear, meetings multiply, and new team members never quite join. The plan is the same, but the project around it has changed.

What changes after this course

Your project has a clear foundation, remote working rules, tools and meetings that fit the distance, and a communication system people rely on. You hire and onboard remotely, deliver with Agile and protect your own productivity.

What is inside: 303 tools, counted lecture by lecture

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

• 40 downloadable resources: lecture presentations plus a remote status signals card
• 171 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 53 step-by-step procedures: project schedule development, project risk management, project control cycle, remote one-on-one meeting agenda
• 39 templates and sample documents: project charter, work breakdown structure, risk register, project communication plan
• 32 checklists: project planning, stakeholder communication, project risk factors, remote work readiness
• 27 question lists and scripts: project initiation decisions, WBS approach selection, one-on-one meetings, communication channel selection
• 17 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: power-interest matrix, risk probability-impact matrix, RACI responsibility matrix, one-on-one workload planner
• 3 metric sets
• 87 models and methods explained with examples: critical path method, Gantt chart, Scrum framework, Kanban board
• 44 services shown on screen, including Notion, Trello, Asana, Miro, Todoist and Toggl Track

Where the tools are

Project foundations (4 sections, 98 tools). PMBOK 7, the business case, scope, plan, schedule, budget, risk, the team and closing.

Going remote (4 sections, 71 tools). The checklist, rules, tools, meetings, hiring, onboarding, retention and culture.

Team communication (2 sections, 46 tools). Audit, goals, channels and difficult news.

Agile delivery (2 sections, 62 tools). Product owner, vision, MVP, releases and ceremonies.

Personal productivity (2 sections, 64 tools). Goals, priorities, planning, procrastination and stress.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.

At Preply we hired people to work in Berlin and invited them to Kyiv for a week or two to work with us, meet the team and absorb the culture. When COVID sent everyone home, one of my first recommendations to companies was a simple weekly pulse survey, even in Google Forms: people felt cared for, and the company could react quickly when someone was struggling.

How to use the course

Start with the project foundations and the going remote sections, then use the communication and Agile sections with your team. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 40 lectures across 15 sections, 20 hours
• 40 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and the remote status signals card
• 303 tools across the lessons, including 44 services shown on screen
• Lifetime access to all materials
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

List what a new remote team member would not know after their first week on your project, then open the going remote lecture. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.