I have taught several varieties of "project management" training course in my time. "Project management" in quotes because some courses that call themselves project management courses don't teach much about project management and some don't teach anything at all about project management.

Strange assertion? Well, I've taught courses which show how to build plans in Microsoft Project (MSP) but these courses didn't teach anything about how actually to plan projects. However good a tool MSP might be, knowing how to use it is not the same as knowing how to plan projects and knowing how to use MSP certainly isn't the same as knowing how to manage projects.

I've also taught courses, again called project management courses, which taught how to pass an examination which then meant you became certificated or accredited. The courses were very good courses but by common consent they taught little or nothing about how to manage projects - they taught you how to pass the exam. And did the accreditation mean you knew how to manage projects? No. It simply meant you had a good enough memory to pass the exam.

I also taught courses that described the processes inherent in a project management methodology. Again, excellent courses if you wanted to find out the mechanics for administering Change Requests or whatever, but these courses tend not to teach how to manage change, only how to administer the paperwork. There is a difference.

People who come to the IT Project Management Training Course (which does show how to manage projects) who have previously been on a methodology course, observe that the methodology course tells how to administer, say, change requests whereas the IT Project Management Training Course teaches why you might want to manage change, and explains what the change control process is really trying to help you achieve. If you know what the change control process is really for you can quite easily design your own process to meet the needs of your particular project. If you don't know what the various project management processes are for you will tend to default to laying the dead hand of bureaucratic standard processes on your project. And employing processes without knowing why is a recipe for chaos in spite of a fine veneer of bureaucracy.

Are you looking for a project management training course that will teach you how to use a project management tool such as Microsoft Project? If yes, sorry you've come to the wrong site.

Are you looking for a project management training course that will teach you how to administer the bureaucratic machinations of a project management methodology such as Prince2? If yes, sorry you've come to the wrong site.

Are you looking for a project management training course that will teach you how to pass a project management exam such as the PMI PMP exam? If yes, sorry you've come to the wrong site.

Are you looking for a project management training course that will teach you how to manage I.T. projects, how to be a team leader in an I.T. project, or how to be an effective user in an I.T. project? Yes? Well, you've come to the right site! Please enter here:

Good project managers do not hide behind a facade of bureaucracy and jargon. Project management is not rocket science. Methodologies often overcomplicate it - the more complicated you can make it seem the more you can charge for the methodology manual and the training course that teaches it! Go for a practical course that trains one how to manage projects rather than a project management training course that teaches how to pass an exam on the particular terminology of a patent PM methodology. Project management training is a funny thing. You can't really devise an examination that tests your ability to manage projects. Your ability to parrot the terminology of a methodology can certainly be tested and teaching a project management training course that helps project management professionals to memorise it is relatively easy. Real project management training can only be provided by a project management trainer who has managed projects. Excellent project management training: Project Management Training is practical not theoretical Project Management Training teaches how to do it in reality not how to administer the bureaucracy