Project Management

Our Individual Instruction Fast-tracks Your Career

 See How We're Different: PMI Exam & Real World Skills Courses

Since 1986, we have been teaching project managers individually. You work online with an experienced project/program manager with over 20 years of experience. You learn the practical techniques required to succeed in project management from scheculing to making presentations and running meetings. This individual approach gives you an exceptional career foundation. It's far superior to trying to learn a profession in a crowded classroom or a chat room.

Learn to Manage Projects With No Excess Meetings or Paperwork

Study With a Real Person - a PM with 15 years of industry experience, not an academic.

No Chat Rooms or Message Boards- Get personal, private answers to all your questions.

Improve Your Communications- Give presentations with Q&A sessions to gain confidence & polish.

Practice Each Step in a Project- Your instructor evaluates each assignment.

Build Project Management Skills for Your Career With Expert Mentoring

Project management is a rewarding and challenging profession. You need "best practice" techniques to rise to the top of this profession. We provide the best way to get those skills:

  • Work with a PMP-certified project manager with 15+ years' experience as your instructor
  • Get coaching when you need it
  • Lectures and reading on the project lifecycle
  • Project case study assignments to practice every step
  • Project software instruction
  • Live, private video conferences with your instructor to discuss your progress.

Beginners Learn a 5-Step Methodology for All Projects

-Project Basics Project Basics
-IT Project Basics
-Construction Project Basics
-Healthcare Project Basics

 

 

You'll be confident in your ability to succeed because you know what to do and how to do it. Your instructor is available for on-going advice & support for 1 year after training.

Individual, Online Instruction with Your Personal Project Instructor
  • You tell your instructor the schedule you want to follow, your experience and learning style
  • You can email or talk by phone with your instructor whenever you wish
  • You get written feedback and coaching on all your course assignments
  • You have progress discussions whenever you wish.

Great project managers master their skills with individual training & mentoring. For 20+ years our students have learned by working with their personal instructor.

Project Certifications

PMP Certification

Functional Certifications

IT PM Certification

Construction PM Cert.

Healthcare PM Cert.

Project Management Cert.

Beginner Certifications

CAPM Certification

Associate IT PM Certification

Assoc. Construction PM

Assoc. Healthcare PM Cert.

Associate PM Certification

All Courses Approved by The Project Management Institute

PMI

Practice Every Step

You manage a project from start to finish: scheduling, making assignments, tracking progress, giving presentations and answering managers' questions. You get coaching at each step.

Study When You Want

There are no set class times. You start when you want, study whenever you have time and take up to a year to finish.

Global Certifications

Employers know our certifications mean you have successfully applied the best practices for performing every step in the project lifecycle.

Technique Discussions

Email Question

 
Our Most Popular Project Management Articles

Reducing Budget and/or Duration: Discussing Trade-offs

Status Reports: Giving Executives the Info They Want

Right Size WBS? The WBS is Not Just a Big "To Do" List

Why So Many Project Failures? Getting Business Value

Writing a Good Project Charter

The 5 Dumbest Things a Project Manager Can Say

Taking on a New Project Assignment

A Scalable Methodology for Projects of Different Sizes

Project Career Advice

Business & Creative Project Managers

IT Project Managers

Projects for Department Managers

Certification Options

Healthcare Project Managers

Construction Project Managers

Re-certification for PMP - Classes for PDUs

Sample Project Management Books by Dick Billows

Essentials of Project Management Book

Advanced Project Techniques Book

Managing IT Projects Book

Managing Healthcare Projects Book

Managing Construction Projects Book

Program and Portfolio Management Book

Project Managers KnowledgeBase Book

CAPM Exam Prep Book

All Books by Dick Billows

Additional Project Articles

The Project Approval Process: 3 Fantasies

Identifying Project Problems Before It's Too Late

Project Planning Templates & Best Practices

Handling Bad News From Your Project Team

Project Team Member's Performance: Guidelines for Criticism

Project Team Member's Performance: Constructive Criticism

Cross-functional Projects & Managing Conflict

Building High-Performance Team Cultures

Borrowing Resources Across Functional lines

Project Manager's Authority Template

Resolving Project Conflict

Critical Path: Optimizing the Project Plans

Risk Analysis Template for Project Managers

Project Constraints & Trade-offs

Prying Open the Strategic Oyster: Business Value

Using the Statement of Work (SOW) to Initiate a Project

Project Methodology: Overview of 4PM

Project Planning: Achievements Not Technical Details

Compare Your Organization's Project Performance to the Best

Project Trade-offs: Talking the Decision-Makers' Language

Project Trade-offs: Scope, Budget, Duration & Risk

Avoid the Activity Trap to Clear Team Member Assignments

Project Planning Steps Template

Sequencing Project Tasks to Optimize the Schedule

Using Clear Assignment to Cope with the Team From Hell

Negotiating to Gain Commitment From the Project Team

Designing a Good WBS is NOT Listing Every Task You Think Of

Laying The Foundation for Effective Project Tracking

The Death Spiral of IT Projects

Predicting Project Success with the WBS

The Right Way to Get a Project Approved

Reporting Status to the Sponsor

Identifying Project Risks Through Brainstorming

Achievement Approach to Projects

 

Index of Articles

Project Best practices

Project Management Learning

Free Project Management Resources

Project Manager In Action Videos

Project Team Performance
Project Management Office

Program Management & The Project Office

Drowning in the Project Resource Pool

Project-Based Management

Components of the Projectized Organizations

How To Make an Organization Project Friendly

Project Sponsors, Contractors & Vendors

Best Practices for Sponsoring Projects

Improve an Organization's Project Performance

How to NOT Sponsor Projects

Control Over the Portfolio: The Smallest Projects

Project Success: More than Just Great PMs

Fixing Your Organization's Project Processes

Handling Contractors & Contract Types

Working with Contractors & Vendors

Mistakes PMs Make on Change Orders

Organizational Project Processes

Project Management: Evolution of Processes

When Organizational Processes Cause Failure

Designing the Work Breakdown Structure

Project Close-out: Lessons Learned Review

Micro-manager? Not me!

Identifying Project Requirements in Planning

Selecting Project Software

Simple Variance Reporting with Tracking Gantt  

Managing Team Members Who Work At-home

Planning Projects From a Due Date

Securing Organizational Project Approval

Finding a Project's Business Value

A Project Manager's Dream Skill Set

Strategic Decisions: The Right Project Reach

Saga of the Project from Hell: Planning

Saga of the Project from Hell: Charter

Project Scope Control

What's the Right Size for a WBS?

Project Charter

Change Control: Avoiding Scope Creep

Multiple Projects: Enterprise PM

Survival Techniques for Multiple Projects

Project Methodology: Achievements

Stages in Project Management Development

Framing Projects: Measurable Business Outcomes

Change Control: Slaying the Scope Creep Dragon

Profitable Account & Client Management

Finding Out About Problems Before It's Too Late

Gathering Requirements Without a Clear Scope

Don't Commit to a Date Until You Know It's Realistic

Developing Solid Team Members

Change Requests: Scope, Duration & Cost Impact