The PM course industry issues hundreds of thousands of certifications a year and produces almost nobody who can run a project on day one. In this video, I break down why that is by design, and give you the four-criteria filter that separates real PM training from trivia practice with a project management theme.
Project management is a performance domain, not a knowledge domain. You can pass the PMP and not be able to write a useful charter, and that gap between knowing and doing is exactly what hiring managers screen for. Courses sell what scales. Competence comes from the same place it always has: repetition, consequences, feedback, and defending your work.
In this video, I cover:
- The structural reason PM courses keep failing certified candidates
- Knowing vs doing: why the two skills do not transfer
- Criterion 1: real decisions under pressure, with no answer key
- Criterion 2: consequences that compound across a continuous project arc
- Criterion 3: feedback from someone who has actually run projects
- Criterion 4: a defense moment in front of other people
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