“What if you could grasp the essential PRACTICAL project management skills that will make you a professional PM capable of leading any team with confidence, easily managing project risks, and keeping stakeholders engaged, all in 20 minutes per work day?"
A little less than ten years ago, I was a Technical Support Engineer. You know, I wrote emails to customers to solve their issues with our software products.
When I got the job, I thought I would do this boring work all my life. I was at the lowest level of the company's hierarchy with zero authority. I had no technical background, and I didn't have a degree in management.
Due to my position, I interacted with Software Development Project Managers from time to time, and I quickly realized I wanted to become a PM myself. That was my dream job!
It took me several months to work my way up to the first software project to lead. But then my career exploded. My salary went up by 120% annually for the next four years in a row.
What's the secret of such rapid career growth?
- Understanding of how different pieces of project management work as a whole (from start to end).
- Leadership skills that allow you to manage experienced team members and authoritative stakeholders.
- Ability to demonstrate your project management achievements to recruiters and your boss.
Now, let me elaborate on these points...
How to Master Project Management and Become a Successful PM?
How many times have you Googled something like “risk management” or “scope management example”? Or what about things like:
- How to create WBS, schedule, and budget?
- Best project management tools
- How to lead a team so that delegated tasks get done well and on time?
- How to track multiple projects and sub-tasks at once
- Project budgeting
- How to work with scope creep
Yet with each of these, and more, the search either pulls up a million ads for various certifications or else shows you bits and pieces of the project management. Both of which really leave you wondering how to put it all together?
I think you’ll agree with me when I say…
In the end, it feels like you know the theory, but your confidence falls apart when it gets to practice or putting it on paper.
In fact, it adds more doubts because you aren’t sure if you need a PMP certification, experience with Scrum, ITIL, Six Sigma, SAFe, a master’s degree in management, or all of the above! What is it that will help you feel like things don’t keep slipping from your control?
7 Things I Wish Someone Told Me About Being a Project Manager in Advance
- Your PM mentor will teach you everything you need to know. Wrong! He'll never have time for you. You are on your own.
- Everyone speaks about being a leader, but no one can explain how to do it on a daily basis.
- Each project has difficult personalities, and you can't simply fire them. How to deal with difficult people on a project is a separate skillset.
- Your boss wants you to manage stakeholders. (But he limits it to only writing progress reports and proper emails).
- Scope Management is the most critical knowledge domain, but your leadership cares only about schedule and budget.
- You must know how to manage project risks from day one.
- Project Management is not a standardized profession. (None of the certifications prepares you for the real-world responsibilities of a PM).
Now, I can almost hear you thinking…
Wait! Isn't PMI's PMP certification a golden standard of project management? It teaches everything you need to know to be a Project Manager.
No. Let me explain it.
The Truth About PMP Certification
Did you know that you need to maintain your PMP certification in 3-year cycles?
Here’s what Project Management Institute doesn’t publish:
There’s severe attrition of project managers after the first cycle. It means that they don’t maintain their certification and let it expire.
Why?
Because they got the certification for one purpose only - to get a promotion.
It doesn't explain to you how to lead a team, how to communicate with difficult stakeholders, or even how to implement risk management that they teach in the real life.
I agree. You should get a PMP certification once you have 3-5 years of real project management experience AND a proven track record of successful projects. It may give you a salary boost.
For now, you need to focus on understanding:
- How project management works as a whole.
- Why stakeholders are essential.
- How to manage project scope and risks.
- Practical steps to be a leader.
You need a little guidance on what’s important during the first few years of your career to achieve rapid growth.
Yes, you lead a project already. But do you take all the benefits of the profession?
In the US, we are talking about up to 147K per year. But even when you adjust it for your region, you still get 50-80% more than a non-project management role.
Here’s the interesting part…
Project Management Should NOT Be Complex
I have been developing my project management approach for ten years on different projects and in different companies. I applied the same Core Project Management Framework each time, even on large enterprise projects.
It not only worked for me, but also for dozens of other project managers I taught.
Why?
Three clear reasons:
- My Core Framework has a great emphasis on how to instantly become a leader for your team, how to influence stakeholders, and people management in general.
- The Core Project Management Framework provides a complete set of simple processes and tools to manage project scope, budget, and schedule in the real world.
- It's a practical framework, which means you can follow the step-by-step process to deliver a project on-time and within budget.
Just think…
Instead of wasting months on learning overwhelming amounts of inapplicable theory and searching Google for answers, you know exactly where to focus your efforts.
What if you knew a proven project management framework that you can apply at once and be confident that you do it in the right way.
That’s why I have taken everything I learned from ten years of practical experience in managing software development projects.
Then, I put together the CORE Project Management Framework with hands-on, real-world examples and practical methods explained and demonstrated in a way that will help you confidently finish your first projects on-time and within budget, become a leader, and rapidly grow your career.
PRACTICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSE
(Master leadership, stakeholder management, and CORE principles of project management without overwhelming certifications and unnecessary expenses)
This online course combines an in-depth knowledge of the PRACTICAL Project Management and Leadership with career development guidelines:
- CORE Project Management Framework - learn how to manage a project from start to finish with easy-to-use templates, tools, and PM software. Combine the best practices of traditional project management with Scrum and Kanban.
- Exclusive additional lessons on Stakeholder Management, Risk Management, and Leadership that come from my recent experience. They'll equip you with actionable knowledge and tools you can apply today.
- You'll prove to your boss you are a worthy leader with this comprehensive project management knowledge. This also means you don't need to buy, or make time for, separate courses on Scrum or Leadership.
Unlike other courses, the Practical Project Management Course gives you real-world education, all in one place, in less time.
Here’s how it compares with other project management courses you may find online:
Proven Step-by-Step Path to Becoming a Confident Project Manager
Learn the Core Project Management Framework
It is a pre-recorded online course. You get instant access to all videos and materials.
The course will provide all the project management basics you need to know. Keep in mind that this framework is already integrated. It means all pieces work together as one mechanism. You can easily adjust it to the environment of the company you work in right now. You’ll also learn:
- Step-by-step instructions and templates for essential PM work.
- How to manage stakeholders and their expectations.
- Practical leadership with an actionable plan you can use.
- How to create an accurate project budget and schedule.
- What you need to do to manage real-life project risks.
Review the CORE Project Management Framework
Understanding the big picture of the project management is what separates you from accidental or amateur PMs.
You do need to know such concepts as Project Life Cycle or Project Management Process.
Knowing these theoretical concepts will help you organize your knowledge and work of your team. You can position yourself as a professional project manager for your team.
- Understanding the big picture of the project management will separate you from an accidental or amateur PM.
- The main concepts of Agile Project Management and Software Development Life Cycle.
- The fundamentals of PM knowledge you’ll be asked in an interview.
- How to use this knowledge to position yourself as a professional PM.
Bonuses That Will Help You Become the Best Project Manager
Bonus 1: My Personal Stakeholder Management System
Identify Stakeholders... What does that mean in the real world? How do you actually do it?
In this bonus, I’ll share the “Circles” approach to finding and categorizing stakeholders. I’ll give you a workflow and exact questions you can use to discover all the people who are interested in your project.
Next, you’ll get a simple tool that helps you to keep stakeholders engaged, committed to their promises, and fully informed about your project.
Last but not least, I’ll share my experience in managing difficult, micromanaging, or disengaged stakeholders.
This bonus will ensure you build efficient communication with all critical stakeholders while not spending the whole day on meetings in Zoom.
Bonus 2: Step-by-Step Guide to Leadership
I read dozens of books on leadership. For ten years I’ve been testing lots of approaches and techniques.
So, you don’t need to read all those books. You don’t need to be a natural-born leader. You can learn it from this course.
With this bonus, you’ll get a simple approach to win the respect of your team quickly. You’ll build rapport and professional relationships with key people on your project. And you’ll learn how to set goals and ensure commitment from the team so that they perform at the highest level.
I’ll teach you how to create a feeling of ownership and responsibility for the project with your people.
The same approaches work with clients, your boss, all other stakeholders. Even as a junior project manager you can follow these steps and become a great leader. A leader that people love to work with.
Bonus 3: How to Easily Manage Project Scope with WBS
This standalone mini-course will teach you how to create and use a Work Breakdown Structure or WBS on your project. WBS is the most efficient way to manage project scope.
You’ll learn the underlying principles and best practices of scope management. It means that you can apply this knowledge even if you don’t use a WBS on your project and don’t have any project management software.
With this knowledge, you’ll organize the project work and add structure to all your project management efforts. You’ll get clarity on what you need to do each day, how to communicate it to stakeholders, and how to control the work of your team.
With proper WBS, it feels like you are in total control of your project. That’s how professional PMs manage projects.
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What's My Investment?
You got your first project, but everything is new. You need to make serious decisions, and you’re afraid to fail your career right from the start.
It feels like you know what to do in theory, but you can’t implement it because no one showed you an example.
And, yes, you have a full-time job as a project manager, and you don’t have much time and energy to learn project management on the fly.
In any case, as I see it, you have two options here:
- Option #1: You try to get through it on your own and entirely possibly fail your very first project. It’ll keep you in the same place this time next year, with lots of wasted efforts and no further promotion.
- Option #2: You 100% commit to becoming a capable project manager during the next few weeks with practical knowledge and skills, ready to lead any project.
And you make this decision right now.
Full Practical Project Management Course
One payment of $297 will gives you lifetime access to:
Full Course on Project Management Basics
5 modules, 57 lessons on
PRACTICAL Project Management
(value: $497.00)
Special Offer Bonuses
Bonus 1: Step-by-Step Guide to Leadership
An actionable plan on how to become a leader for your team.
(value: $197.00)
Bonus 2: My Personal Stakeholder Management System
The secrete workflow and tools I use in the real world.
(value: $97.00)
Bonus 3: How to Easily Manage Project Scope with WBS
A standalone mini-course on how to create and maintain robust Work Breakdown Structure.
(value: $197.00)
Learn First - Decide Later Money Back Guarantee
Full disclosure: You'll learn how to plan your professional development and build a career of a Successful PM.
But you need to be COMMITTED to becoming a great project manager. You need to do some work.
So here's the deal:
By the end of 30 days, you’ll have received access to all the Core modules, the Roadmap, templates.
Meaning, you’ll have an opportunity to apply it all on practice BEFORE making a final decision.
If you don’t feel like you’re on your way to becoming a better Project Manager while feeling so much more confident and educated PM, just write me an email at dmitriy@pmbasics101.com within 30 days from your payment. I’ll give you back your investment so that you’ll only have to add up a thousand dollars more to get an entry-level certificate.
Does it Really Work?
Practical Project Management Course
With life-time access you can get through the online course and all recordings on your own at any pace.
Full Practical Project Management Program
(The Best ROI)
- ✅ Full Online Course on Practical Project Management
- ✅ BONUS 1: My Personal Stakeholder Management System
- ✅ BONUS 2: Step-by-Step Guide to Leadership
- ✅ BONUS 3: How to Easily Manage Project Scope with WBS
- ✅ -20% When You Pay In-Full
Need an "Easy Start Payment Plan"?
Get the PPM Program with Online Workshops and Q&A Session with 3 monthly payments of $119.
What people asked before signing up for the Practical Project Management Course?
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Practical Project Management Course
With life-time access you can get through the online course and all recordings on your own at any pace.
Full Practical Project Management Program
(The Best ROI)
- ✅ Full Online Course on Practical Project Management
- ✅ BONUS 1: My Personal Stakeholder Management System
- ✅ BONUS 2: Step-by-Step Guide to Leadership
- ✅ BONUS 3: How to Easily Manage Project Scope with WBS
- ✅ -20% When You Pay In-Full
Need an "Easy Start Payment Plan"?
Get the PPM Program with Online Workshops and Q&A Session with 3 monthly payments of $119.
Still undecided?
PRACTICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT IS PERFECT FOR YOU IF…
You are an accidental Project Manager and just starting.
You don’t have a formal PM education. But your boss selected you because you have a talent for getting well with people. They listen to you, and you are responsible. Now, you want to be a professional Project Manager.
You are a Junior Project Manager or Project Coordinator.
...and you don’t have a mentor to teach you. You have a bit of experience in a project environment. You don’t want to wait for your boss to notice your hard work. So, you want to build your career right away.
You want to learn how to manage projects in real life.
You may have seen it already and understand what it takes to lead a group of people to produce results within limits of time and money. Now, you want to get real-life training.
You’re afraid that certification won’t help you with the interview.
You may already face the problem. Interviewers ask you questions you cannot answer. They want solutions applicable on PRACTICE.
You feel leadership potential.
You want to take control of the work, and you want to make the work of people more comfortable, enjoyable, and meaningful. You want to develop and motivate them because you ALREADY understand that they are the biggest asset.
You are committed to becoming a great Project Manager.
When you enroll for the course, you become a part of the project management community. Personal development, continuous improvement, and coaching is at the heart of this community. And you want to be a part of it.
If you said "YES" to at least one of the above, I can't wait to meet you inside the Practical Project Management Course
Practical Project Management Course
With life-time access you can get through the online course and all recordings on your own at any pace.
Full Practical Project Management Program
(The Best ROI)
- ✅ Full Online Course on Practical Project Management
- ✅ BONUS 1: My Personal Stakeholder Management System
- ✅ BONUS 2: Step-by-Step Guide to Leadership
- ✅ BONUS 3: How to Easily Manage Project Scope with WBS
- ✅ -20% When You Pay In-Full
Need an "Easy Start Payment Plan"?
Get the PPM Program with Online Workshops and Q&A Session with 3 monthly payments of $119.
Enroll now and start building your career as a Project Manager or...
You can try to get through it on your own and spend another few years, Or you can grasp the project management basics in the next month and focus on building a successful career.
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