Many of us are struggling to prioritize our learning as a working professional or aspiring data scientist. We’re told that we need to learn so many things that at times it can be overwhelming. Recently, I’ve felt like there could be a better way to organize my own learning path as a data professional. This weekend, I decided to create and finish a meta-project to guide my own professional development journey. Luckily, I rediscovered the project management tool Monday.com to help me.

monday.com is a project management tool that enables organizations to manage tasks, projects, and teamwork.

I was introduced to Monday.com when I worked as a project manager in the civil engineering industry. We used it to track leads and keep tabs on our project portfolio’s performance. Whenever we would gain a new lead, we’d add it to our “Leads” dashboard. When we won a contract, we’d add it to the “Ongoing Projects” dashboard. Even our CEO used it to track monthly and quarterly sales performance. It didn’t occur to me until recently that I could use it to project manage my own data science journey.

Note: I am in no way affiliated with Monday.com or Udacity.com.

Here’s my own learning management board that I created in 1.5 hours.

This has helped me lay everything out that I want to learn, set hard deadlines for when I need to complete projects, and visually assess what’s a high priority.

You can also see a Kanban table here that is commonly used by project managers in software development.

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