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Welcome to dooer academy

dooer is a tool. But the real thing you are building is a skill.

The skill is called project tracking. People who do it well — senior PMOs, programme managers, ops leads — are paid a lot. Most of them never read a textbook about it. They learned by doing the work and noticing what worked.

dooer academy is the shortcut.

Every page in dooer is also a lesson. Every action you take inside it (creating a task, approving an effort estimate, running a meeting, closing feedback) maps to a concept from the project-management world. The academy makes that mapping visible.

If you stick with it, you will not just be "good at dooer." You will be good at running work — your own, or other people's.

Pick a track

There are two tracks. Pick the one that matches you today. You can switch later.

Solo Operator

You use dooer for your own work. Maybe you are a freelancer, a founder, a knowledge worker, a student. Nobody reports to you (yet). You want to stop losing things, plan your week well, and treat your own life like a portfolio.

Start here: Solo Operator → Basic

Team Lead

People report to you. Or you run projects across people who don't. You assign work, approve work, run meetings, and answer to someone above you. You want to do this with craft — not with vibes.

Start here: Team Lead → Basic

Both tracks share a set of core concepts — the deeper ideas that show up in both worlds. You can read those any time. See Core concepts.

How the tiers work

Each track has three tiers:

  1. Basic — you can do the thing. You follow the steps. You stop losing work.
  2. Advanced — you see patterns. You plan a week, negotiate an estimate, govern a project.
  3. Proficient — you read the whole system. You run a portfolio, coach others, intervene before things rot.

The names come from a real model called the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1980). It says people learn skills in stages: first by rules, then by patterns, finally by intuition. dooer's three tiers map to those stages.

Each tier has an exit criterion — a concrete signal that you are ready for the next one. The signals come from the data you generate inside dooer (how many tasks you completed, how many feedback items you closed, how full your weekly planner is). You don't grade yourself. dooer grades you.

For details on points, levels, and what counts, see How it works.

How to use the academy

You do not have to read it in order. You can if you want.

The best way is this:

  1. Pick your track.
  2. Read the tier you are at (or the one below, to check the basics).
  3. Do the journeys listed there inside dooer.
  4. When you hit the exit criterion, move up one tier.

If you get stuck on a concept, click the link to the Core concepts page that explains it. Each concept page is short and cites where the idea comes from, in case you want to read the original.

If you want the whole map at once — every action in dooer and what it triggers — see the Causality map.

What you will not find here

  • Buzzwords without meaning. Every term we use is defined the first time it appears, and cites a real source.
  • Tool-specific dogma. dooer follows the canon of project management (PMBOK, Scrum, GTD, RACI). When dooer's design disagrees with one of these, we say so and explain why.
  • Certificates. This is not a paid course. It is a way to use dooer that makes you better at your work.

Ready?