Choosing the Right Project Management Training Is Difficult

The range of project management training options is enormous, from short, topic-specific crash courses to seminars lasting several days and coaching over longer periods of time for working professionals.  A search in the Internet search engine Google (as of May 06, 2023) with the search term “project management training” alone yields more than 4.5 million results.  The large number of offerings makes it difficult to compare them and assess their quality.  To make this easier, the following blog posts will comprehensively describe and evaluate the different basic types of relevant training and education offerings.

We deliberately do not consider individual courses that cover only partial aspects of project management and thus provide only a fraction of the overall skills required for successful project management.  Instead, we only consider programs that aim to train project managers so comprehensively that they can successfully manage projects in practice.  Such programs include …

  • project management study programs at universities and business schools;
  • project management certifications offered by various, often private, organizations; and
  • working as a management consultant, accompanied by numerous training courses and on-the-job coaching.