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Managing a project from start to finish

Managing a project from start to finish

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Managing a project from start to finish

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- [Instructor] In our previous video, we discussed that communication is one of the skills that separates great engineers from amazing engineers. The other skill that separates mediocrity from excellence is organization. Rarely in my career have I only worked on one task at a time. More often, I'm juggling a half dozen projects at any given time. An engineer greater than me might be able to keep six projects with all their requirements, tasks, and details straight in their head, but I can't, so I rely on digital notes. We touched on project management software in the last video, and I'm going to go a bit more in depth in this video on the topic. Project management skills are the ability to take a complex request like a new sales dashboard and break it down into manageable pieces. Let me give you a brief outline of what that might look like. Step one, you receive a request from your sales manager they'd like a new sales dashboard created in Tableau. Step two, you schedule time to…

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