Looking Back on the Massive Curriculum Rewrite
Reflecting on the program management skills that made the Massive curriculum rewrite possible , bridging production pipelines, leadership, and education strategy.
Looking Back on the Massive Curriculum Rewrite
relection Fall 2020
As we’re just starting to see the fruits of the Massive curriculum rewrite, I can’t help but look back at the skills I’ve honed over the past few years. I’d definitely call them Program Management skills, the kind I first developed at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
If I didn’t have those tools, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall thinking, resource planning, vendor management, and risk mitigation, I know for a fact this project would have crashed and burned.
The rewrite pushed every bit of my coordination and leadership ability: managing multiple sites, aligning faculty teams, forecasting multi-million-dollar budgets, and constantly adjusting milestones while keeping the big picture intact.
I love pushing myself to use these skills in different ways. Whether it’s building production pipelines or architecting academic programs, the same principles apply, clarity, accountability, and execution through structure.
Note- While this was only posted recently, I’ve been going through my old notes and this one stuck with me. It perfectly captures a moment when I first started realizing how much of my technical background had quietly evolved into real program management.