Digital Project Management

Prepare for a fast-growing career in digital project management. Learn to translate business needs into actionable plans, apply Agile and Waterfall methods, and drive results for diverse industries.

Nanodegree Program

Beginner
22 hours
4.9 (56)
Updated: Oct 8, 2025

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Skills you'll learn

30 skills

Cost-benefit analysis
Project risk mitigation
Scrum
S.M.A.R.T. goals
Requirements gathering

Professional portfolios
Project execution
Project status reporting

Prerequisites

0 prerequisites

No prior technical experience required.

You will need to be able to communicate fluently and professionally in written and spoken English.

Program Outline

4 courses
13 lessons
1 project

Course 1: Welcome to the Nanodegree Program!

Course 2: Introduction to Digital Project Management

Course 3: Digital Project Management

Dive deeper into the five stages of the digital project management lifecycle: Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitor & Control, and Closure. Start by understanding how two common methodologies, Waterfall and Agile, relate to and differ from each other. Then, move on to setting a project scope and identifying key stakeholders, creating a project plan, analyzing risks and engaging stakeholders during project execution, creating target goals and measuring a project's performance, evaluating the project outcome, and sharing knowledge at the end. In each stage, you will use the tools and templates a digital project manager typically uses in order to build a solid project.

20 hours

Introduction to Digital Project Management
This lesson provides more context to how digital project management came to be and some of the tools you will practice using in this course.
Project Management Methodologies
This lesson introduces two common methodologies - Waterfall and Agile - and some related frameworks on which digital projects are typically based.
Setting up Your Project
This lesson covers the first of five key stages in the digital project management lifecycle - Initiation. It involves setting a project scope and identifying key participants in the digital project.
Building Realistic Plans
This lesson covers the second of five key stages in the digital project management lifecycle - Planning. It involves analyzing if a project is worth investing in and then creating a project plan.
Getting Things Done
This lesson covers the third of five key stages in the digital project management lifecycle - Execution. It involves analyzing risks and engaging stakeholders with effective communication.
Monitor and Control
This lesson covers the fourth of five key stages in the digital project management lifecycle - Monitor and Control. It involves creating target goals and measuring a project's performance.
Closure
This lesson covers the last of five key stages in the digital project management lifecycle: Closure. It involves ensuring a project met its requirements and knowledge is shared with the right people.

Final Project: From Methodology to Execution
The project takes you through the project management lifecycle in a structured way. You will act as a project manager and help a small family business undergo digital transformation.

Course 4: Congratulations!

Program Instructors

1 instructor

Unlike typical professors, our instructors come from Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies and have demonstrated leadership and expertise in their professions:

Walyce Almeida

Program Manager at AWS

Walyce Almeida

Program Manager at AWS

Reviews

Trustpilot reviews

Average Rating: 4.9 (56 Reviews)

insightful, and great content

— Fahad A

Aug 11, 2026

Digital Project Management is a valuable approach for organizing tasks, tracking progress, improving team collaboration, and keeping projects on schedule. When implemented well, it can increase transparency, efficiency, and accountability across teams.

— Ahmad Allan

Jun 23, 2026

Very good!

— Rafael Silva Santos

Jun 22, 2026

The study path was well organized, informative, and easy to follow. The lessons provided practical project management knowledge that can be applied in real-world business scenarios.

— Adriano Ferraiuolo

May 29, 2026

Very informative and interactive. It takes a bit of time to go through all the lessons, but the payoff for learning the knowledge is worth it.

— Braden Novak

May 20, 2026

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