If you are overwhelmed by the amount of work requests you get every week or even every day, and are challenged by juggling not only your workload, but the workload of your entire team or department, it is time to consider another approach. In this course, Demand and Work Management: A Practical Guide, you will learn the skills, approaches, tools, and techniques to advance your essential demand and work management skills. First, you will learn a solid definition of what demand management is, why it is an important element of any organization, and cover the numerous benefits of having a solid demand management process and approach. Next, you will discover the critical distinction between ‘demand’ and ‘work’ in conjunction with three discreet work types: operations, projects, and initiatives, that drive all demand and work in an organization. Finally, you will explore how to create backlogs, perform grooming, design portfolio/program/project management structures, setup Kanban boards, and model teams to support a variety of demand and work processes. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of demand and work management needed to implement proven techniques and processes to capture and manage demand from the executives to the end users and execute and deliver high-quality work outcomes.
Author Name: Michael Krasowski
Author Description:
Michael is a consultant and Pluralsight author. He recently traded the corporate world of Accenture back into his passion: IT professional development and authoring for Pluralsight. Previous to Accenture, Michael was General Manager of Fairway Technologies Inc. at the Orange County offices located in Irvine, California. In 2017, Fairway Technologies acquired PDSA Inc., where Michael was Vice President/COO at PDSA, Inc. His responsibilities were to manage all projects and personnel while ensurin… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• What You Will Learn
  11mins
• Explore the Fundamentals of Demand Management
  21mins
• Constructing Your Demand Management Process
  61mins
• Building Your Operations Management Process
  43mins
• Building Your Project Management Process
  47mins
• Building Your Initiative Management Process
  34mins
• Tools, Forecasting, Metrics & Course Summary
  24mins