Team charter
Write a technical team’s charter: roles, rituals and decision rules.
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Technical Team Manager
Engineers or developers taking on management roles.
Leadership and high-performance teams, accountability and engagement, project management and organisation, then strategy and negotiation.
233hours of coursework
24weeks at 10 h
3steps
14courses
2universities
Target skills
Organizational StructureBusiness EthicsConflict ManagementStakeholder ManagementLeadershipChange ManagementOrganizational ChangeOrganizational LeadershipOrganizational StrategyAccountabilityStrategic Decision-MakingStakeholder Engagement
Skill labels as listed on Coursera.
Target jobs
- Engineering manager
- Technical lead
- Technical programme manager
Progression
- 1University of Colorado BoulderBeginneracademic credit
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Leadership Style and Building a High-Performance Team Beginner 26 h 4.5 (22) Accountability and Employee Engagement Beginner 25 h 4.7 (17) Value Creation and Building Enduring Relationships Beginner 15 h — - 2University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBeginnerAI chatbots
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Financial Accounting: Foundations Beginner 13 h 4.7 (4,678) Financial Accounting: Advanced Topics Intermediate 12 h 4.7 (1,774) Designing the Organization Beginner 13 h 4.7 (1,776) Managing the Organization Beginner 13 h 4.8 (1,553) Project Initiation and Planning Beginner 24 h 4.8 (153) Project Execution and Control Beginner 22 h 4.8 (69) - 3University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBeginner
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Leading Teams: Developing as a Leader Beginner 14 h 4.8 (6,700) Leading Teams: Building Effective Team Cultures Beginner 14 h 4.8 (2,491) Designing the Organizationalready taken Beginner 13 h 4.7 (1,776) Managing the Organizationalready taken Beginner 13 h 4.8 (1,553) Business Strategy Intermediate 19 h 4.8 (2,100) Corporate Strategy Intermediate 11 h 4.7 (1,196) Strategic Leadership and Management Capstone Beginner 12 h 4.7 (395)
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Projects to build
Roadmap
Plan a six-month technical project in agile mode, with budget and milestones.
Strategic plan
Link the team’s goals to company strategy in a two-page memo.
Free textbooks
Organizational BehaviorOpenStaxFree (OpenStax)
Project Management, 2nd EditionA. Watt (BCcampus)Free, CC BY 4.0