Setting Up ProjectAdm: Account, Token and Your Board

The whole setup is one question: your ProjectAdm token. Here is what happens around it, and what to do when something does not.

This is the only setup lesson in the course, and it is short on purpose. You will
type one thing.

The three steps

1. Download and extract the package.
   Get the course package, then right-click → Extract
   all. Actually extract it — a course does not run from inside a zip.
2. Create your free ProjectAdm account at
   projectadm.com and generate a token:
   your profile → API Keys.
3. Double-click Iniciar.bat (Windows) or
   Iniciar.command (Mac). It asks for the token — and that is all.

What happens after you paste the token

Start creates your portfolio and your board in ProjectAdm, writes
everything into the course’s configuration for you, and opens the menu. Then
step 1 asks two questions — the name of your project (your board takes that
name) and your Objective — and builds the board out:

• Product Backlog — everything that could be done, in order of value
• Sprint Backlog — what you committed to for the current Sprint
• Daily Scrum — today’s focus
• Completed — what is done; this is where the KRs are measured from
• Scrum Events — the events of every Sprint, created up front
• Reference — the course playbook, and at the top of it the
  “0. Inbox” card

The first four are states of the work: an item travels through them. Reference
is not a state — it is for consulting. That is why the Inbox lives inside it: pasting an
AI answer is not a state of your product.

When something does not work

• Clicking Start does nothing. Confirm you extracted the zip. Running
  from inside the compressed file is the number-one cause.
• “Windows protected your PC”. More info → Run anyway. It is
  the standard warning for a downloaded file.
• The token was refused. Generate another one and paste it again, with no
  spaces. Start only accepts a token that actually works against the API — it tests
  before saving.
• I cannot find the Inbox. It is the first card in the Reference list,
  and it appears when you run step 1.
• The step says it found nothing. The answer did not reach the card, or reached
  it in part. Open the card, check the whole text is there, and run the step again.

Next

Lesson 9 starts the work itself: the Product Backlog, and the Product Goal that orders it.

Agile Together is a free course. The package — scripts plus a portable Python — is a single download: get the course package. You install nothing.