Bad project management makes everything _10x worse_. Good project management makes everything _10x better_. This talk shows how anyone can go from bad to good by understanding a few core principles and following a simple structure.
Relevant to anyone who works in a team. It can be summarised as “How to Jira without losing your mind.”
## Part 1: Principles
What drives good (and bad) project management, and how do we reason about visibility? We cover principles around these questions:
1. How and what to track? 🔎
2. Todo lists. Yay 🙌🏼 or Nay 👎🏼
3. Unambiguous Priority. What does that mean?
4. The thin and important line between busywork and prep work
5. What to communicate, what to avoid
## Part 2: Practical Considerations
Principles only take us so far; we still must deal with Jira.
We will make sense of Epics, User Stories, Labels, Swimlanes, etc.
1. What if you already have a project that’s messed up?
2. What if you’re starting from scratch?