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Project Management Foundations

A Course for Modern Teams

Built for project management in the Age of Information and AI — with a strong focus on the analytical and leadership skills modern project work demands. The course runs in five applied sessions.

Why this is a work sample. IDCI wrote Project Management Foundations, built its materials, and delivers the course. The preview shows the pages themselves — session slides, Participant Guide pages, and in-class exercises with a sample answer key — so you can judge the writing, the structure, and the level of finish directly.
5
Applied sessions
20
Classroom hours
15
Hours of guided homework
1
Project, charter to closeout
Course outcomes

Walk in curious. Walk out fluent.

Project Management Foundations develops the analytical and leadership skills that project work in the Age of Information and AI demands — the words, the tools, and the judgment to contribute to any project with confidence. Across five sessions, you can learn to:

01

Recognize what project management is, why it matters, and what sets a project apart from ordinary operations.

02

Work with the focus areas and performance domains of modern project management, and tailor an approach to fit the work.

03

Use the essential project artifacts — charters, plans, registers, logs, and reports — and follow the lifecycle each one takes.

04

Build schedules, budgets, and project teams, and balance the three as they constrain one another.

05

Apply business acumen as a PM competency, use project management information systems (PMIS), and put AI to work within its real strengths and limits.

06

Bring the pieces together across a full project — diagnosing one at a critical juncture and building the plan to carry it home.

The course

Practical fluency, built the way projects actually run.

A five-session, awareness-level course in the fundamentals of project management for the Age of Information and AI — the vocabulary, structure, and habits of mind to run projects deliberately and well. It’s built for professionals who lead, support, or sponsor projects: people stepping into coordination roles, managers taking on project responsibility, and staff working alongside certified project managers.

Aligned to the PMBOK® Guide — Eighth Edition (2025) and the PMI Talent Triangle®, using current PMI terminology throughout. The goal is practical fluency you can use right away: read a charter, interpret a schedule and a status report, see scope pressure coming, and speak the profession’s language with confidence.

Instruction is applied, not theoretical. A single realistic project runs through all five sessions, from chartering to closeout, so every new concept is exercised immediately against a project you already know — and each session sends you off with a short, hands-on assignment grounded in that same project.

Preview the course materials Download the course description A one-page PDF with everything you need to make the case internally.
The essentials

Format, audience, and what you leave with.

Format

Five instructor-led sessions — 20 classroom hours plus 15 hours of guided homework. Each session is followed by an applied assignment of about three hours, completed on fillable worksheets grounded in the running scenario.

Who it’s for

Open to all — no prior experience required. New and aspiring project coordinators, team leads, analysts, administrators, and managers in any sector whose work touches projects.

What you leave with

An expanded project management vocabulary and foundational knowledge of the focus areas, performance domains, and project artifacts — and the readiness to keep building your PM practice and learning.

Schedule a meeting to book your course Public, private, or nonprofit — we’ll build the delivery around your group.

Ready to lead in the Age of Information and AI?

Project and environmental complexity keeps rising, and the profession is moving fast. Teams with strong analytical and leadership fundamentals adapt faster and lead with confidence. Tell us about your group — we’ll build the delivery around it.

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View-only reference material. The course materials shown in the preview are the work product of Information Design Consultants, Inc., which licenses and delivers Project Management Foundations. They are not licensed for reproduction or reuse, in whole or in part. © 2026 Information Design Consultants, Inc. All rights reserved. For PMI certifications and eligibility, see pmi.org. PMBOK® and PMI Talent Triangle® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.