Training for the new PMP exam, taught start to finish.
A complete video course built for the July 2026 Exam Content Outline — with the course's practice bank and a plain-language glossary on the same site.
202 lectures · ~42 hours of video · July 2026 ECO · PMBOK® Guide, 8th Edition
The course follows a real project's life
Ten sections, in teaching order — inside each one, lectures group by knowledge area, so Scope sits with Scope and Schedule with Schedule.
Aman Ullah
Project controls & risk management on mega projects since 2010.
Also here — free practice
The course's own question bank, open to everyone. No sign-up wall.
Timed mock exams
Two 180-question sittings · 240 minutes · the real break points.
Quizzes & analytics
70 topic quizzes · results by ECO task · a personal re-study list.
Formula trainer
Calculation drills, with the worked solution after every answer.
Glossary — terms in plain language
Project management terms explained in our own words, many with a short narrated video explainer.
Practice — free
The course's question bank, open as a free companion to the training: timed mocks, topic quizzes and drills. No account needed — progress and your miss deck live in this browser.
More practice tools: Formula Trainer — rapid calculation drills · Study Plans — the 30-day and 12-week routes through the course · My Misses — your personal review deck.
Topic quizzes — 5 questions each, instant feedback
Grouped by course section. Each quiz follows the same recipe: concept-in-action, process order, worked-example echo, exam trap, scenario judgment.
Formula Trainer
Calculation drills from the question bank — earned value, schedule float, communication channels. Fifteen questions per round, drawn at random from the drill pool, worked solution after every answer.
Study plans
The full course is ~42 hours of instruction: 70 topics, 202 lectures, every topic closed by a 5-question quiz. Both plans below cover the same material and end with both mock exams — pick the pace your calendar can actually keep. The study loop for every topic is: watch → topic quiz → scenario drills → log your errors.
Plan A — 30-day intensive (~1.5–2 study hours a day)
| Days | Focus | Topics | Practice |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | Start Here + Foundations I | 1–6 | Quiz after every topic |
| 3–4 | Foundations II + Initiating | 7–14 | Quizzes; start your error log |
| 5–8 | Planning | 15–25 | Quizzes + Formula Trainer twice |
| 9–12 | Executing | 26–36 | Quizzes; review deck every other day |
| 13–17 | Monitoring & Controlling (the biggest block) | 37–53 | Quizzes + Formula Trainer twice |
| 18–20 | Closing + Leadership & People | 54–62 | Quizzes |
| 21–22 | Agile & Hybrid | 63–67 | Quizzes |
| 23–24 | Exam Readiness | 68–70 | Clear your miss deck to zero |
| 25 | Light day | — | Re-study your three weakest tasks only |
| 26 | Mock Exam 1 — full 240-minute sitting | — | Review every miss the same evening |
| 27–28 | Re-study from Mock 1 analytics | Weakest tasks | Assessment (60 Q) on day 28 |
| 29 | Deck + formulas | — | Formula Trainer until calculations feel automatic |
| 30 | Mock Exam 2 — full sitting | — | Readiness check: aim for consistent 75%+ per domain |
Plan B — 12-week working-professional pace (~4–5 hours a week)
| Week | Focus | Topics | Practice habit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Start Here + Foundations I | 1–6 | Quiz after every topic |
| 2 | Foundations II | 7–12 | Quizzes |
| 3 | Initiating + Planning I | 13–19 | Quizzes; error log review Sunday |
| 4 | Planning II | 20–25 | Quizzes + one Formula Trainer round |
| 5 | Executing I | 26–31 | Quizzes |
| 6 | Executing II | 32–36 | Quizzes + Formula Trainer |
| 7 | Monitoring & Controlling I | 37–43 | Quizzes |
| 8 | Monitoring & Controlling II | 44–50 | Quizzes; clear the miss deck weekly |
| 9 | Monitoring & Controlling III + Closing | 51–56 | Quizzes |
| 10 | Leadership & People | 57–62 | Quizzes |
| 11 | Agile & Hybrid + Exam Readiness | 63–70 | Quizzes + Assessment (60 Q) at week end |
| 12 | Mock week | — | Mock 1 early in the week → re-study weakest tasks → Mock 2 at the end |
PMP® Exam Prep 2026
The full video course behind this site — designed to help you prepare for the exam set out in the July 2026 Exam Content Outline and the PMBOK® Guide 8th Edition.
How the course is built
Process-flow spine
Sections follow a real project's life — Initiating through Closing.
Knowledge-area streams
Scope, Schedule, Finance — each area learned in one unbroken run.
ECO crosswalk
All 26 tasks of the July 2026 outline mapped to their lectures.
A quiz closes every topic
Five questions per topic — the same quizzes, free in Practice.
Price — two ways to enrol
The site-direct price for the full course: all 202 lectures, the complete question bank, downloadable resources, the end-of-course assessment and the 35-hour completion certificate.
Checkout opens when the course launches. Practise free in the Practice section in the meantime.
30-day satisfaction refund — if the course is not for you, email us within 30 days of purchase for a full refund. No progress conditions, no questions.
The same course, on Udemy
The course is also published on Udemy, where pricing follows Udemy's own offers and coupons. Content and certificate are the same course either way — choose the route that suits you.
Udemy listing — link added at launchThe 35-hour certificate
The PMP application asks for 35 contact hours of project management training. This course is built to document exactly that: when you complete all sections of the course and its end-of-course assessment, PM in Making issues you a digital certificate of completion recording your 35 hours of training with us — your name, the course, the hours and the completion date.
Keep the certificate with your application records. PMI audits a sample of applications, and if yours is selected you will be asked for documentation of your training — this certificate is that documentation. It records training completed with PM in Making; whether an application is approved remains PMI's decision, and PM in Making is not affiliated with PMI.
Syllabus — 10 sections, 70 topics
Section by section, in teaching order — 35 hours of instruction in total.
| Section | What it covers | Topics | Lectures | Instruction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S0 — Start Here | How to use the course, the July 2026 exam blueprint, eligibility & the application, study plans and the mocks | 1–4 | 001–010 | 95 min |
| + Lecture 201 | How to Get to the Correct Answer: The Spot–Strike–Select Method — numbered 201, placed directly after Lecture 004, before the content sections, so the method is in hand for every lecture, worked example and mock that follows | 2 | 201 | 12 min |
| S1 — Foundations | What changed in PMBOK 8, the 6 principles, the process architecture (5 focus areas, 40 processes), performance domains as lenses, tailoring, AI & sustainability, value delivery | 5–12 | 011–030 | 210 min |
| S2 — Initiating | Authorising the project: vision, charter and business case; identifying stakeholders and initial governance | 13–14 | 031–035 | 57 min |
| S3 — Planning | Planning in knowledge-area streams: integration, scope, schedule, finance, resources, procurement, quality, risk, stakeholders, communications, compliance | 15–25 | 036–070 | 380 min |
| S4 — Executing | Directing the work, building and managing the team, conflict, stakeholder engagement, communications in action, quality assurance, procurements, value delivery | 26–36 | 071–096 | 288 min |
| S5 — Monitoring & Controlling | Holding the baselines: earned value and forecasting, change control, risk and issue control, governance gates, compliance audits, reading data and graphic questions, the control capstone | 37–53 | 097–151 | 582 min |
| S6 — Closing | Acceptance and handover, lessons and archives, contract closeout and final reporting | 54–56 | 152–156 | 45 min |
| S7 — Leadership & People Skills | Leadership styles, culture and empowerment, coaching and mentoring, emotional intelligence and negotiation, managing resistance, supporting organisational change | 57–62 | 157–174 | 196 min |
| S8 — Agile & Hybrid | Agile mindset and roles, Scrum as a mini life cycle, Kanban and XP, hybrid tailoring, an agile case-set marathon | 63–67 | 175–190 | 165 min |
| S9 — Exam Readiness | Exam-day strategy, attacking case sets and graphic questions, the final assessment briefing and application checklist | 68–70 | 191–200 | 82 min |
The PMP proves you can lead a project — any way it runs.
The Project Management Professional (PMP)® is a certification for experienced project leaders. It validates that you can lead and deliver projects in predictive, hybrid and agile ways of working — it is not tied to one methodology, one industry or one country.
It is issued by the Project Management Institute (PMI) — the professional association for project management, founded in 1969, publisher of the PMBOK® Guide and of the Exam Content Outline the PMP is tested against.
What the PMP proves
PMI frames the PMP as proof of project leadership in any way of working. The current exam tests all three:
Predictive leadership
Plan-driven projects — scope, schedule and budget agreed up front, then delivered against the plan.
Hybrid leadership
A deliberate blend — predictive where certainty helps, adaptive where the work is still being learned.
Agile leadership
Work delivered in short cycles, with the team led through the work rather than managed from above.
What holders reported earning
From PMI's salary survey of project professionals — respondents reporting their own pay. A survey describes the people who answered it; it is not a forecast of any one person's salary.
United States — median reported salary
A difference of nearly 24% between the two US medians.
The same survey, by time certified (US)
Source: PMI, Earning Power: Project Management Salary Survey, 14th edition (2025) — 14,628 project professionals across 21 countries, surveyed March–April 2025 with PeriscopeIQ. All figures are medians reported by survey respondents.
The demand for project professionals
PMI's 2025 workforce model counts the global project profession — and projects a wide gap by 2035.
■ 39.6M — project professionals in the workforce today · ■ up to 29.8M — additional professionals needed by 2035
Source: PMI, Global Project Management Talent Gap report, May 2025 (172 project-related roles, 180+ countries, LinkedIn Talent Insights).
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics counts one US occupation, Project Management Specialists — a different population from PMI's global model, so it is shown apart, not added to it.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook — Project Management Specialists, 2025.
Who can apply — the eligibility pattern
PMI asks for two things: project-managing experience that fits one of these education tiers, plus 35 hours of project management training.
Plus 35 hours of training
Project management training from an eligible provider — or an active CAPM®, which also covers this requirement. The course on this site is built to document exactly these 35 hours.
PMI counts time spent managing projects in a professional setting, within the last 10 years; overlapping projects are not double-counted, and "Project Manager" does not have to be your job title. From 1 December 2026, live instructor-led hours count only from PMI Authorized Training Partners, China Registered Education Providers or accredited programmes — on-demand training remains an accepted route. Requirements as published by PMI (checked October 2026); confirm the current wording at pmi.org before you apply.
Check your own pattern — three questions
The same check PMI offers on its own site, in our own form. It reads the published requirements against your answers — nothing more.
Guidance only, from PMI's published requirements. PMI reviews every application and makes the final determination — this check is not a verdict on any application.
The exam at a glance
What the exam is made of
The mix changed with the July 2026 Exam Content Outline, in force since 9 July 2026: Business Environment more than tripled its share, and the exam now spreads across 26 tasks instead of 35. Preparation built on the old weights is aimed at an exam that no longer exists.
Exam format and domain weights: PMI PMP page and the July 2026 Exam Content Outline.
A study plan to your date
Pick the date you are aiming at, and the course is laid against your calendar — sections in order, a quiz closing every topic, both mock exams and a final review stretch before the day. This is planning help: the pace adjusts to the date you choose, and no plan can promise a result.
Where the credential sits in a career
A common progression in project work — titles vary by employer, and no path is promised. The figures under the path are what surveys recorded at points along it.
Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook (2025); PMI, Earning Power, 14th edition (2025). Survey medians describe respondents, not any individual's pay.
After the exam — keeping the PMP
The credential is maintained with 60 PDUs every three years — professional development units, earned through learning, teaching, mentoring and similar activities.
Start where you are
The training covers the 35 hours, the method and the full question bank. The practice section is free, whether or not you ever enrol.
Glossary
Project management terms in plain language, in our own words — each with a practical example, and many with a short video explainer. Search below, or browse by group.
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My missed-question deck
Every question you answer incorrectly — in any exam, quiz or drill — lands here. Review the deck in practice mode: a question leaves the deck once you have answered it correctly twice in a row in review sessions.
Error log — grouped by ECO task
Results
Domain readiness — your score vs the exam's weighting
The bar is your score in that domain; the black marker is the domain's share of the real exam (People 33% · Process 41% · Business Environment 26%). "On track" means 75%+ in this attempt.
Re-study list — weakest ECO task first
Ordered by your score per task. Each row names the lectures (and topic, where the question came from a topic quiz) that cover it.
Per-task breakdown
Email me my results + re-study plan
Email delivery is being switched on with the full course launch. Leave your email and we will send your results summary and re-study plan as soon as it goes live — no spam, ever.