PM Fundamentals®

Project Management Fundamentals provides participants with a practical introduction to the principles, practices, and decision-making skills used to successfully plan, lead, adapt, and deliver projects across modern organizational environments.

This two-day, instructor-led course introduces the project lifecycle and foundational elements of project management, including scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, risk, communications, stakeholder engagement, and project integration. Participants examine how these elements interact and how decisions in one area can influence project performance, delivery outcomes, and organizational value.

Participants are introduced to predictive, agile, and hybrid approaches and learn why different projects may require different ways of planning, organizing work, engaging stakeholders, managing change, and delivering value. Rather than treating one methodology as appropriate for every project, the course develops an understanding of how project characteristics, complexity, uncertainty, organizational needs, and desired outcomes influence the selection and tailoring of project management approaches.

Through instructor-led discussion, realistic project scenarios, practical examples, and applied learning activities, participants explore how projects are initiated, planned, executed, monitored, adapted, and closed. The course examines the project manager’s role in coordinating work, leading and supporting teams, communicating with stakeholders, managing constraints, addressing risks and issues, solving problems, responding to change, and maintaining focus on successful project outcomes.

No prior project management experience is required. The course is designed for professionals new to project management, individuals who contribute to project teams, emerging project leaders, and professionals seeking to strengthen their foundational project management knowledge and practical skills.

Participants will develop practical knowledge and skills in the following areas:

• Understanding project management fundamentals and the project lifecycle
• Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, adapting, and closing projects
• Defining and managing project scope, requirements, schedules, and milestones
• Understanding project costs, resources, quality, and delivery considerations
• Identifying, assessing, and responding to project risks, issues, and changes
• Communicating effectively with project stakeholders and team members
• Understanding stakeholder roles, expectations, engagement, and influence
• Managing project constraints, dependencies, priorities, and competing demands
• Understanding predictive, agile, and hybrid approaches and when different approaches may be appropriate
• Applying tailoring and situational judgment based on project context, complexity, uncertainty, and organizational needs
• Supporting effective team collaboration, problem-solving, and decision-making
• Connecting project activities and decisions to successful outcomes, organizational objectives, and value
• Applying foundational project management practices to realistic workplace and project situations

REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE

Our instructors bring extensive project and program management experience across diverse organizational, team, and delivery environments.

Instruction connects foundational project management concepts to realistic situations involving scope, schedule, resources, risk, stakeholders, team dynamics, changing priorities, and delivery decisions. Participants examine how project managers evaluate information, balance competing constraints, communicate with stakeholders, solve problems, respond to change, and keep project work focused on desired outcomes.

Through practical examples, case-based discussion, and applied scenarios, participants move beyond learning project management terminology to understanding how project decisions are made, why different approaches may be appropriate in different situations, and how those decisions influence project performance, organizational objectives, and value.

After completing the course, participants will be able to:

• Explain foundational project management concepts, terminology, and the role projects play in achieving organizational objectives
• Describe the project lifecycle from initiation through planning, execution, monitoring, adaptation, and closing
• Define project objectives, scope, requirements, deliverables, and success criteria
• Develop foundational approaches to project scheduling, budgeting, resource planning, and quality management
• Identify and assess project risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies
• Plan effective project communications and stakeholder engagement
• Understand the project manager’s role in coordinating work, supporting teams, engaging stakeholders, and guiding project activities
• Distinguish between predictive, agile, and hybrid approaches and recognize when different approaches may be appropriate
• Evaluate the impact of changes, uncertainty, priorities, and competing project constraints
• Apply foundational tailoring, problem-solving, and decision-making practices based on project context
• Connect project decisions and delivery activities to project outcomes, organizational objectives, and value
• Apply foundational project management concepts to realistic workplace and project scenarios

✓ You must attend your Project Management Fundamentals class for the full duration.

✓ You must complete all assigned practice exams and quizzes in your student portal to receive your Certificate of Completion (COC).

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Hardware Requirements:
  • This course can be taken on either a PC, Mac, or Chromebook with strong internet service and computer audio and video capabilities.
• Software Requirements:
  • PC: A currently supported version of Windows
  • Mac: A currently supported version of macOS
  • Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, is preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
  • Microsoft.com Microsoft Word or compatible document-viewing software
  • Adobe.com for Adobe Reader or another PDF reader
    • Software MUST be fully installed and operational PRIOR to course start.
• Other:
  • A valid email account is required for course communications and access to applicable learning resources.

INTERNATIONAL PHONE NUMBERS PROVIDED

• International dial-in numbers provided for over 50 countries.
• Alternatively, students can join using Voice Over IP (VOIP)

1. Medium: This class will be taught via Zoom. Zoom has established a list of Global Access Numbers which will be provided to students upon registration. Voice Over IP (VOIP) is also available. Baskin Advisory Group, LLC (known hereafter as BAG, LLC) is not responsible for telephone toll or data charges that may be incurred by participants while connected to web or phone conferencing services.

2. Electronic Communications: BAG will communicate with participants electronically, via email from connect@baskinadvisorygroup.com. To ensure receipt of related communications, participants are responsible for adding the email domain of BAG, LLC to its list of safe senders and for inspecting spam folders to retrieve communications which may be sent by BAG, LLC.

3. Training Materials: All training materials ship from the United States. For international shipments, buyer is responsible for import fees and duties which may be levied by the country of destination at the time of receipt. BAG, LLC will transmit shipping address, electronically to the shipper, exactly as entered on the customer registration form. BAG, LLC cannot ship packages to a P. O. Box. Customer is responsible for providing a physical shippping address, at the time of registration, which is valid and deliverable. Customer accepts responsibility for taking delivery of packages at the address provided by the customer at the time of registration. Customer assumes responsibility for expenses related to training materials that must be replaced or reshipped due to incorrect or undeliverable shipping address provided by the customer at the time of registration. BAG, LLC will notify participant via email when package ships, and upon receipt of delivery notification from shipper. Customer assumes full responsibility for expenses related to training materials that must be replaced or reshipped if training materials are not reported as missing, or undeliverable by the customer and/or participant within three (3) business days of electronic delivery notification sent by BAG, LLC to customer.

4. Cancellations/Refunds: Requests for cancellations, refunds, transfers, and substitutions, must be submitted via email to connect@baskinadvisorygroup.com. Cancellation requests received by BAG, LLC within 30 calendar days from date of purchase AND not after 30 calendar days prior to the start date of the class for which the participant/customer was originally registered, will receive a full refund, minus the cost of any training materials that have already been shipped or otherwise provided to the participant.. Cancellation requests received greater than 30 days after date of purchase OR after 30 days prior to the start date of the class for which the participant/customer was originally registered are non-refundable.

5. Transfers: If space is available, BAG, LLC is happy to accommodate requests to transfer students between classes of the same type. In the event the training materials that are required for the originally scheduled class becomes obsolete, then a student/customer may purchase new training materials from BAG, LLC which are compatible with the new class. BAG, LLC does NOT accept returns, issue refunds or exchanges for obsolete training materials, or for training materials which have been shipped to the student/customer.

6. Substitutions: BAG, LLC is pleased to accommodate requests to subsitute the registration of one student for the registration of another student, in the same class. Training materials are personalized and licensed to the individual student. Therefore, training materials are non-transferable. Upon substitution, a fee of $250 will be assessed to the buyer to cover the cost of issuing new training materials to the new student.

ABOUT BASKIN ADVISORY GROUP, LLC.

Baskin Advisory Group, LLC (BAG) provides management consulting, program and project management advisory services, and professional development training designed to strengthen organizational and individual capability. Our training programs combine structured learning with practical application, helping participants build knowledge and skills they can apply across project and organizational environments.

BAG provides project management education and certification preparation across foundational and advanced learning pathways, including CAPM® and PMP® preparation, along with training in Microsoft® Project and other professional development areas. Programs may support individual learners, organizational teams, and institutional workforce and professional development initiatives.

Our instructor-led approach emphasizes practical experience, participant engagement, and the connection between professional learning and real-world application.