Project Management Training Camp
Project managers and project teams ready to practice real PM skills under realistic pressure, including seasoned veterans, new PMs, and project support staff alike.
Overview
The Project Management Training Camp is the most immersive PM training experience we offer. It is built around our proprietary simulation engine, a probabilistic, AI-driven simulator that responds to your team’s decisions and produces real, unscripted project outcomes.
You and your team will plan, execute, and control a live project across 20+ practice iterations. You will work with real teammates and virtual staff members with distinct personalities, work ethic, and character traits. You will face the same scope, schedule, cost, resource, quality, risk, and stakeholder issues that show up on real projects. Your coach is a senior project manager who has lived these scenarios and will debrief with you after each cycle, covering what worked, what did not, and what to try next.
What you'll learn
- Practice planning, executing, and controlling a project end-to-end
- Balance leadership and management skills under realistic time pressure
- Use effective project management tools on a live, dynamic project
- Work with real teammates and virtual staff with distinct personalities and work ethic
- Manage budget, schedule, quality, resource, stakeholder, and risk issues as they arise
- Communicate progress effectively under stress
- Internalize the 'soft' skills that separate effective PMs from technically correct ones
What's included
- Multi-day simulation powered by our proprietary simulation engine
- 20+ practice iterations across plan / execute / control cycles
- Coach-facilitated debriefs after each cycle
- Interaction with virtual team members with distinct personalities and work styles
- Coverage of scope, schedule, cost, resources, quality, risk, and stakeholders
- Templates, tools, and take-home reference materials
Who should attend
Project managers and project teams ready to practice real PM skills under realistic pressure, including seasoned veterans, new PMs, and project support staff alike.
Prerequisites
No prerequisites. Open to all experience levels.
Agenda
A typical delivery. Custom on-site engagements are adapted to your team and industry.
- Day 1Onboard and plan
- Coach introduces the simulation context and team setup
- Build the initial project plan: scope, schedule, cost, resources
- Identify risks and stakeholder strategy
- First simulation cycle: make decisions, run the work, see results
- Debrief and reflect on outcomes
- Day 2Execute and control
- Continue through multiple plan / execute / control iterations
- Coach-facilitated reflection, correction, and reporting exercises
- Adjust to risks, stakeholder pressure, and team dynamics in real time
- Practice progress reporting and decision-making under load
- Day 3Advanced challenges and close-out
- Higher-difficulty scenarios introducing change orders and stakeholder conflict
- Team versus team performance comparison
- Final close-out, lessons learned, and personal action plans
Upcoming sessions
Public dates listed below. Custom on-site delivery is available year-round. Contact us for a quote.
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Talk to us about delivering this to your team.
Custom on-site, live online, or a seat in an upcoming public cohort. Tell us a little about your team and we'll come back with a quote and timing.