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Adobe Workfront PM Professional study plan

Adobe Workfront PM Professional · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 8 hours per week

Week 1

Request Intake and Project Initiation & Project Planning, Scheduling, and Dependencies

  • Diagram the request-to-project lifecycle, labeling each queue topic, routing rule, and approval step

  • Convert three sample intake requests into a project template with predefined tasks and role assignments

  • Build a 25-task work breakdown structure that distinguishes parent tasks, milestones, and leaf tasks

  • Draft a personal glossary defining 20 scheduling terms in your own words

Your checkpoint

An intake-to-WBS blueprint: one queue configuration sketch plus a 25-task WBS built in a sandbox project.

Week 2

Project Planning, Scheduling, and Dependencies

  • Construct a 40-task project using finish-start, start-start, and finish-finish predecessors, including two lag values

  • Trace the critical path and record which tasks carry zero float

  • Compare simple, effort-driven, calculated-work, and fixed-duration behavior on the same pair of tasks

  • Test how a task's planned dates shift when you change its constraint from as-soon-as-possible to a fixed date

Your checkpoint

A 40+ task sandbox project with a written critical-path trace and a duration-type comparison table.

Week 3

Project Execution and Task Management & Project Planning, Scheduling, and Dependencies

  • Simulate one week of task updates and identify which statuses roll up into project percent complete

  • Configure a task-level approval and a predecessor-driven handoff between two owners

  • Resolve three scheduling conflicts created by overlapping assignments and note the method used for each

  • Trace how an issue escalates from a task to the project owner

Your checkpoint

An execution playbook: an annotated log of 10 task status changes with the resulting project health indicators.

Week 4

Resource Management and Workload Balancing

  • Assign five people to a plan and identify over-allocation in a workload balancing view

  • Configure job roles and compare role-based versus named-resource assignment behavior

  • Level two overallocations using distinct strategies and document the trade-off of each

  • Interpret planned versus actual hours for one resource spread across three tasks

Your checkpoint

A resource plan for the sandbox project with before-and-after utilization figures and a written trade-off note.

Week 5

Reporting, Dashboards, and Analytics

  • Build three reports: a task report with a filter, a project report with groupings, and a chart-based report

  • Assemble one dashboard with at least four components and share it to a team

  • Write a text-mode filter for a date range and explain each line of it

  • Compare two chart types on the same dataset and justify the choice in writing

Your checkpoint

A dashboard specification: three report definitions, one text-mode filter explained line by line, and a layout plan.

Week 6

Reporting, Dashboards, and Analytics & Agile and Work Management (Boards, Iterations, Backlogs)

  • Create a board, a backlog, and two iterations in a sandbox team

  • Decompose three stories into cards with acceptance criteria and move them through a complete iteration

  • Calculate iteration velocity and plot burndown from your own sandbox data

  • Rebuild one dashboard report so it reads correctly for an agile audience

Your checkpoint

An iteration retro pack: a completed iteration, a velocity figure, and a chart comparison note.

Week 7

Collaboration, Proofing, and Approvals & Setup, Configuration, and Data Integrity

  • Route a document through a two-stage proofing approval and record each decision state

  • Design an approval workflow that includes a delegate and an automated decision rule

  • Audit a sandbox for data integrity issues: duplicate custom form fields, orphaned group permissions, inconsistent statuses

  • Map access levels, group, team, and sharing permissions for three distinct personas

Your checkpoint

A configuration audit checklist with 15 findings plus a permissions matrix covering three personas.

Week 8

Project Planning, Scheduling, and Dependencies & Reporting, Dashboards, and Analytics

  • Take two timed 60-question practice exams and log every error by domain

  • Re-drill your two lowest-scoring domains with targeted exercises until accuracy exceeds 85%

  • Recite from memory the relationships among duration, planned hours, and assignment allocation

  • Re-verify any flagged or uncertain facts against official documentation and correct your notes

Your checkpoint

A final readiness sheet: per-domain accuracy scores, the top 10 recurring mistakes, and a one-page concept card.

Milestones

Week 2: Explain your sandbox project's critical path without notes and state at least two float values correctly.

Week 4: Score at least 70% on a timed 40-question set covering domains 1 through 4, with every miss logged by domain.

Week 6: Score at least 75% on a timed 30-question set covering domains 1, 2, and 5, and update your weak-area list.

Week 8: Score at least 85% on a full-length timed practice exam with no single domain below 70%.