Complete Every Project You Start: Be Your Own Producer (Udemy.com)

There were some decent insight and nuggets of knowledge from experience to glean from this course, however I feel like it could have been shorter by at least 30m in various places. Watching cards get shuffled around a trello board for 1 hour felt excessive.

As a veteran game dev and artist, I have been using Trello to manage projects for years (both personal and group). This course has inspired me to try a new approach to organizing tasks and setting goals in a way that better visualizes the overall timeline. There is also some very valuable insight regarding the role of a producer, the descriptions of tasks, and the managing time and scope to hit launch dates and deadlines. If you are looking to step up your project management skill for any size or style of project, both personal and team based, this is a fantastic 5h investment of your time. Thanks Chris!

For someone inexperienced in organizing time and planning the steps for a project, this is a great first step! If your project happens to be a YouTube channel, video game, or podcast, then this is the course you’ll want to start with to get a sense of what the work ahead might look like. Even if you’re not working on one of those specific projects, the examples, while a bit heavy, still provide valuable insights. You’ll definitely learn about the overall tools, skills, and tasks a producer should handle, whether working solo or as part of a team!

Chris's course gave me a framework to finish any project. He builds the knowledge up step by step, so it's easy to follow and increase complexity as required. I will use this framework starting today (30/11/2024), not only for finishing my game demo by end of Jan 2025, but also for finishing the full game (Elgem TD). I can also see how this framework can help with my home projects, like decluttering or doing up the garden. I have even worked out how to implement the Kanban style board in Notion (add a text property called "Due date" and group by that). Thanks Chris!

Starting just from section 2, I applied Chris's method to my own personal projects and have seen tremendous advancements in just under a month. As someone who used to be really into productivity books and speeding up my workflow, I can say with confidence that his system legitimately work. One complaint I have is that Chris talks too fast sometimes. He speaks perfectly for the most part, but there are instances when he talked too quickly for me to understand. I know it is time consuming to implement, but captions would do wonders for these videos.

Definitely a different approach to planning than what I am used to. This course is great for people who are planning on working on ambiguous projects - those projects that scare you because there's a lot to do but you don't really know where to begin. Chris' approach makes it sooo much easier to get started rather than sweat over the particulars. I enjoyed taking this course. It exceeded my expectations for sure

This is by far one of the best productivity courses I've ever taken! Chris does a great job of breaking down the different concepts, approaches and resources in a way that is easy to follow and understand. Additionally, I liked the idea of about being your own producer as a wearing a different "hat" or code switching from your main role, and trying to balance the needs and expectations for both. I think that a crash course like this can be extremely valuable for game dev students or folks starting to work on team projects for the first time as it can help them avoid common pitfalls related to project management. I highly recommend the course and am excited to dive into the other resources now that I finished the class!

I am a person who oscillates wildly between hyper-organized and the human embodiment of chaos. As I like to say, "My ADHD is diagnosed." This class was a helpful tool to find signal in the noise, to turn half-baked ideas I had about how to organize, plan, and schedule into something actionable, meaningful, and useful both to myself and other people. There are no miracle solutions to getting things done, especially when you have brain cooties like mine, but I finished this class feeling motivated and focused. I am, in fact, taking a momentary break from building a brand new Trello for my current project just so I can leave a review that might help someone else find their way. This course's price tag is a steal for the level of guidance and expertise you're going to get from it.

I enjoyed the course as it helped me to understand that everything I do starts with the why and then the brainstorming in random order. The course also reiterated the fact that a project begins with writing all the steps down in no particular order and one can always use the Trello board to adjust and make changes as u move on and set due dates for each task. Thank you so much I also enjoyed the audio gift offered at the end of the course.

So I picked this course up on a compete whim. Got an email about a course to "Complete Every Project You Start" at a discounted price of $10. As a hobby game dev I naturally have a pile of projects that have been started and left unfinished, so I figure sure I'll bet $10 on being able to actually finish things for a change. I completed the course in just a couple weeks watching one video per day. In that time I've applied the knowledge gained to read all the through one of the many game programming books I have collecting dust, start working through some of my other Udemy courses, and kept on track with a game jam project as well as getting another stalled out game project back on track. Ultimately it'll be on me to stick with it and make using the process a habit, but so far the results have been amazing. So this course gets a solid thumbs up and is easily worth more than what I paid for it.