Project Management Fundamentals

This programme covers the core discipline of running a project: defining scope tightly enough to defend it, building a schedule that reflects real dependencies, and controlling change once delivery is underway. Delegates plan a project of their own across the week.

It runs 4 times over the published calendar, in 2 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Define scope in terms specific enough to identify a change when one occurs.
• Build a schedule from dependencies rather than from wishful duration.
• Identify and quantify the risks that would actually derail delivery.
• Control change without freezing the project or letting it drift.

Anyone running projects without formal training, and specialists moving into a project role.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A scope statement and work breakdown for the delegate's project.
• A dependency based schedule with critical path identified.
• A risk register with quantified exposure and owners.
• A change control process proportionate to the project.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.