A PMI Approved Training Course
Project Management Essentials
Defining & Managing Project Success
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The Project Management Essentials Course gives professionals entering or developing within project management roles a comprehensive, practically intensive foundation in project management — covering initiation, planning, scheduling, budgeting, quality, risk management, communications, and project closure across five structured days of instruction and hands-on exercises.
Project management capability is built through structured knowledge and repeated practice, not just experience. This course provides both — combining project management best practice frameworks with practical exercises on every topic, from writing SMART objectives and project charters through creating WBS structures, network diagrams, schedule development, resource planning, risk assessment, and lessons learned documentation.
What distinguishes this course is the volume and quality of practical application built into every day. Delegates do not just learn project management concepts they practice them. Every core technique is followed by a structured exercise that builds the hands-on confidence and practical skill that professional project delivery requires.
The Project Management Essentials Course is built for professionals who want a rigorous, practically grounded introduction to project management one that delivers real, immediately applicable competence across the full project lifecycle.
The Project Management Essentials Course is designed to develop practical project management capability across initiation, planning, scheduling, cost management, quality, risk, communications, and project closure.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
The Project Management Essentials Course is designed for professionals who are new to project management or who have project management responsibilities without formal training — and who want a comprehensive, practically intensive foundation across the full project management lifecycle.
This course is suitable for:
The Project Management Essentials Course is delivered through a structured, exercise-driven learning approach where practical application is embedded into every topic. The course moves progressively from project initiation and planning through scheduling, risk management, communications, and closure — with multiple hands-on exercises each day to ensure delegates develop real, applicable project management competence alongside conceptual understanding.
Every major concept is followed immediately by a practical exercise, creating a learn-and-apply rhythm that builds confidence and skill simultaneously across the full five days.
Delivery methods include:
Practical Exercise: Creating SMART objectives
Project Exercise: Project Selection exercises
Practical Exercise: Writing the Project Charter
Practical Exercise: Gathering Requirements
Practical Exercise: Creating the Work Breakdown Structure
Practical Exercise: Writing the Scope Statement
Practical Exercise: Network diagramming practice
Practical Exercise: Create, sequence activities and determine duration estimations
Practical Exercise: Complete analogous, parametric and three-point estimating
Practical Exercise: Create quality project metrics
Practical Exercise: Conduct a project meeting
Practical Exercise: Risk Management project exercise
Practical Exercise: Create end course lessons learned
AZTech is an official PMI Authorized Training Partner (ATP). All applicable project management courses are pre-approved by the Project Management Institute, allowing participants to earn the necessary PDUs and Contact Hours for certification and recertification.
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Day 2 focuses on project documentation and scope management, covering project charter development, requirements collection, full project scope definition, Work Breakdown Structure creation and analysis, and scope statement writing. Delegates complete four structured practical exercises across these topics, leaving with the hands-on documentation capability to develop the project initiation documentation that senior management sign-off requires and that sets clear expectations for the full project team
Risk management is addressed within Day 4, covering how project risks are identified, assessed, and planned for within the broader project planning framework. Delegates complete a risk management project exercise, developing the structured risk identification and assessment capability to produce risk registers and response plans that actively protect project performance rather than simply satisfying governance requirements.
Day 5 covers project tracking and software application, examining how project management tools are used to track progress, manage deviations, and maintain accurate project records. Delegates also examine common project management problems and how they are resolved, developing the practical troubleshooting awareness to identify and address project performance issues before they escalate into delivery failures.
Day 3 covers project scheduling and cost management, examining how realistic schedules are developed, how dependencies are defined and managed, and how project durations and costs are estimated using analogous, parametric, and three-point estimating techniques. Delegates complete network diagramming, activity sequencing, and estimating exercises — developing the practical scheduling and estimating capability to produce project plans that are defensible, realistic, and genuinely useful for managing delivery.
Communication planning and virtual team management are covered within Day 4, examining how communication plans are developed to ensure the right information reaches the right stakeholders at the right time, and what the specific challenges and best practices are for managing virtual teams where face-to-face interaction is limited. Delegates apply communication principles in a practical project meeting facilitation exercise, building the interpersonal and communication discipline that effective project management consistently requires.
Project closure is the culminating focus of Day 5, covering project administration, hand-off disciplines, documentation updates, and structured lessons learned capture and application. Delegates complete a lessons learned exercise, developing the closure discipline to extract genuine learning from project experience — rather than treating closure as simply stopping work and moving on. This discipline is what builds organisational project management capability over time.
