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Business

Justin Beller
Justin Beller
3,124 Points

Project Management Course

I've been seeing where project management skills and experience is desired in a lot of job postings. I can see how it would be beneficial to a professional studying these courses. Any plans to add this topic to the course curriculum?

7 Answers

Andy Watkins
Andy Watkins
3,828 Points

Very true, but with Treehouse being designed to get you "job ready", I would find it very beneficial. Working in programming or design goes beyond programming and design.

Matt Caden
Matt Caden
Courses Plus Student 6,588 Points

I completely agree. Recently I have found myself veering away from coding and pixel pushing and into planning larger scale projects for developers and designers to then create and implement. This is not completely new territory for me however some extra guidance for large to enterprise level projects would be beneficial.

Project Management is normally not considered "computer science." It's more of a managerial role that requires little programming knowledge. My friend is a project coordinator at Blackberry, he has a Management Information Systems Business degree.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Everything you say is true, although Treehouse does has a Business section, I'm guessing it could possibly fit in there.

Yes, I feel this would be a good addition to the business section, almost a mandatory one. Being able to deliver on time and with proper organisation is usefull in almost every job and is more and more asked by employer.

Yes please....a project management section would be very well received!

Yes, I agree!!!

iana iasiello
iana iasiello
1,008 Points

Many companies are now expecting lead programmers to also be project managers. This would be a great addition to the series of courses.

I want to chime in on this rather dated and seemingly stale topic and add that IT Project Manager roles are a thing, and are somewhat divided and different from standard Project Management roles. In fact, a search of Glassdoor shows many companies are hiring specifically IT Project Managers. I've been involved in projects recently that were unmitigated disasters as far as planning goes. I'm interested in jumping to IT Project Management for the skills and training, but the salary is very nice as well.