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19 years of Digital Project Management resources to help you up-skill

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For 15 topics, I’ve curated the best books, courses, websites and other resources that I’ve used to help me become an indispensable leader.

They’ll not only boost your project management skills but also strategy, design, web development, content marketing, data and Generative AI.

I’ve included only what I own and consider to be a high quality. None of these are affiliate links so, I won’t make a penny if you buy anything.

I’ll add new content into this page when I find something useful, so don’t forget to bookmark it.

Topics

  1. Project Management

  2. Account Management

  3. Creative Strategy & Planning

  4. Agile - Product Ownership & Scrum

  5. Generative AI

  6. Web Development

  7. Workshops & Facilitation

  8. User Experience Design

  9. User Research

  10. User Interface Design (UI) & Accessibility

  11. Digital Marketing

  12. Data & Analytics

  13. SEO

  14. Productivity

  15. Getting your attention back


A quick note to help you save some money

Udemy is a fantastic online learning platform, BUT, don’t ever pay full price for a course. Create an account, then add courses to your wish list.

Then you’ll find you’ll get a discount to your inbox as they are always on sale.

With Coursera, you can audit courses for free. If you want the certificate, then you will need to pay for the subscription.


1. Project Management

Online courses

Google Project Management: Professional Certification - Coursera

Books

Project Management For Humans - Brett Harned

Memberships

The Digital Project Manager - The original resource for Digital Project Management articles, courses and a members’ community. If you pay for membership, then you get access to everything.


2. Account Management

Books

The Art of Client Services - Robert Solomon

Agencynomics: Fully Revised Edition 2021 by Spencer Gallagher , Peter Hoole, et al.


3. Creative Strategy & Planning

Books

How not to Plan: 66 ways to screw it up by Les Binet and Sarah Carter

Creative Strategy and the Business of Design by Douglas Davis


4. Agile - Product Ownership & Scrum

Online courses

Product Owner II for Agile Intermediate: Certification Prep - Udemy

Scrum Master I Certification Prep & Mock Exams (Agile 2024) - Udemy

Scrum Master II Certification Prep & Mock Exams (SM 2) - Udemy

Books

Professional Product Owner, The: Leveraging Scrum as a Competitive Advantage (The Professional Scrum Series) by Don McGreal and Ralph Jocham

Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction - Chris Sims & Hilary Johnson

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time - Jeff Sutherland

Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process - Kenneth S. Rubin

Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories - Gojko Adzic and David Evans

Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Retrospectives - Tom Roden and Ben Williams

User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product by Jeff Patton , Peter Economy , et al.

Memberships & Certification

Scrum Alliance

The official website for Agile Product Owner, Scrum and Developer Certification. It also has some great micro courses, articles, videos and a community.


5. Generative AI

ChatGPT - Custom GPTs

Open AI Academy

Really short courses to help you learn the basics, and more advanced uses of ChatGPT

Digital Project Manager GPT - The Wash-Up

My free GPT, specifically designed to help with your project management tasks.

Online articles

6 ways I Use ChatGPT to SPEED UP my Projects - The Wash-Up

Courses

AI Essentials For Project Professionals - Project Management Institute

Generative AI Overview for Project Managers - Project Management Institute

ChatGPT & Generative AI: Prompt Engineering for Business - Udemy


6. Web development

Online Courses

The Complete 2024 Web Development Bootcamp - Udemy


7. Workshops & Facilitation

Books

The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time - Rob Fitzpatrick & Devin Hunt

Sprint: the bestselling guide to solving business problems and testing new ideas the Silicon Valley way - Jake Knapp , John Zeratsky

Click: How to Make What People Want by Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky

How to Run a Great Workshop: The Complete Guide to Designing and Running Brilliant Workshops and Meetings - Nikki Highmore Sims

Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers

by Gray Dave, Sunni Brown , et al.

Websites

Google Design Sprints Website


8. User Experience Design

Books

UX Strategy: Product Strategy Techniques for Devising Innovative Digital Solutions by Jaime Levy

The User Experience Team of One- 2nd Edition: A Research and Design Survival Guide

by Leah Buley , Joe Natoli, et al

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web - Christina Wodtke

Communicating the User Experience: A Practical Guide for Creating Useful UX Documentation by Richard Caddick and Steve Cable

UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design

by Laura Klein and Eric Ries

Strategic Writing for UX: Drive Engagement, Conversion, and Retention with Every Word

by Torrey Podmajersky

Online Courses

User Experience (UX): The Ultimate Guide to Usability and UX - Udemy

User Experience Design Fundamentals - Udemy

UX Requirements Made Simple - Udemy

Certification

Interaction Design Foundation

Neilson Normal Group (NN/g) - expensive but this is the gold-standard of UX training

Websites (for articles and newsletters)

Neilson Normal Group (NN/g)

Youtube

Neilson Norman Group (NN/g)


9. User Research

Books

Think Like a UX Researcher: How to Observe Users, Influence Design, and Shape Business Strategy by David Travis and Philip Hodgson

Just Enough Research: Second Edition by Erika Hall

User Research: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Products and Services

by Stephanie Marsh

Remote Research: Real Users, Real Time, Real Research by Nate Bolt and Tony Tulathimutte

Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights- 2nd Edition by Steve Portigal and (Forward) Jamika D. Burge PhD

The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you by Rob Fitzpatrick

Surveys That Work: A Practical Guide for Designing and Running Better Surveys

by Jarrett and Caroline

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Voices That Matter) by Steve Krug

Online Courses

Practical Customer Development - Udemy

Insightful Customer Interviews for Product Managers - Udemy

User Experience (UX): The Ultimate Guide to Usability and UX - Udemy

Podcasts

Awkward Silences - Spotify | Apple | Youtube


10. User Interface (UI) Design & Accessibility

Books

101 UX Principles: A definitive design guide by Will Grant

Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services by Jon Yablonski

Designing Interfaces, 3e: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design by Jenifer Tidwill, Charles Brewer , et al.

Accessibility for Everyone by Laura Kalbag

Color Accessibility Workflows by Geri Coady and A Book Apart

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter) by Steve Krug

Online Courses

The no BS 2 Hour UI Design Course by Messod Michael Abehsera - Udemy

DESIGN RULES: Principles + Practices for Great UI Design by Joe Natoli - Udemy

Master Digital Product Design: UX Research & UI Design by Rob Sutcliffe - Udemy

Figma UI UX Design Essentials by Daniel Walter Scott - Udemy

Building awesome Color Schemes for your UI Design Projects by Muhammad Ahsan Pervaiz - Udemy

Creative Layout Design for Websites and Mobile Apps by Muhammad Ahsan Pervaiz - Udemy

Typography for Designers & Developers - Don't suck at design by Muhammad Ahsan Pervaiz - Udemy


11. Digital Marketing

Books

Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step StoryBrand Guide for Any Business (Made Simple Series) by Donald Miller and Dr. J.J. Peterson

Content Chemistry, 7th Edition:: The Illustrated Handbook for Content Marketing (a Practical Guide to Digital Marketing Strategy, Seo, Ai, Social Media, Email Marketing, & Analytics) by Andy Crestodina

1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand out From The Crowd Paperback – 5 May 2018

Online Courses

The Complete Digital Marketing Course - 12 Courses in 1 by Rob Percival - Udemy

Digital Marketing Masterclass: AI & Social Media Marketing - by Phil Ebiner - Udemy

Content Marketing: Business Growth w/Content Marketing + AI by Phil Ebiner - Udemy


12. Data & Analytics

Books

The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios

by Steve Wexler , Jeffrey Shaffer, et al.

DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story by Nancy Duarte

Online Courses

Google Data Analytics Certification Courses - Coursera

The Business Intelligence Analyst Course 2025 by 365 Careers - Udemy

Tableau 2024 A-Z: Hands-On Tableau Training for Data Science by Kirill Eremenko, SuperDataScience Team & Ligency Team - Udemy

Snowflake – The Complete Masterclass by Nikolai Schuler - Udemy


13. SEO

Books

How To Get To The Top of Google: The Plain English Guide to SEO (Digital Marketing by Exposure Ninja) by Tim Cameron-Kitchen , Dale Davies, et al.

Online Courses

SEO Training Masterclass 2025: Beginner To Advanced SEO by Alex Genadinik - Udemy

Youtube

Exposure Ninja - everything you need for SEO and content marketing.

They wrote the book above.

Blogs

backlinko.com - the best blog about SEO and content marketing


14. Productivity

Books

Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky


15. Getting your attention back

Books

Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count by Oliver Burkeman

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari


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