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Starting Your PM Journey
You're new to project management, or moving into it from an adjacent role, and the vocabulary and the path in aren't obvious yet. Here's a curated way through it, not a wall of generic beginner content.
Who this is for: Complete beginners, aspiring PMs, and people moving into project management from adjacent roles.
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Understanding the Role
Project Manager vs Product Manager: Why Everyone Confuses Them
Two completely different jobs that keep getting mixed up in job ads, on LinkedIn, and in casual conversation. Here's the actual difference, in plain terms.
Read more →The PM Software You Actually Need to Know (Not the Whole List)
Job ads list ten tools and expect you to know them all. Here's what's actually worth learning first, and why the tool matters less than you think.
Read more →The PM Glossary: Terms Everyone Assumes You Already Know
RAID, RACI, WBS, baseline, critical path — plain-English definitions for the jargon that gets dropped into meetings with no explanation.
Read more →What a Project Manager Actually Does, Day to Day
Less Gantt-chart wizardry, more chasing answers and translating between people who don't naturally talk to each other.
Read more →Breaking In
How to Write a PM CV When You've Never Had the Job Title
Your CV history says Coordinator, Analyst, or Assistant. Here's how to write it so a hiring manager still reads you as a project manager.
Read more →How to Get Your First PM Role Without 'Experience'
The circular problem of needing experience to get hired and needing a job to get experience — and three ways round it that actually work.
Read more →PRINCE2 vs PMP: Which Should You Get First?
They're not competing answers to the same question. Here's how to work out which one actually matches where you're trying to go.
Read more →Your First Weeks on the Job
The Five Mistakes Every First-Time PM Makes
Not because you're bad at the job — because nobody tells you these until you've already made them once. Better to read them here first.
Read more →Your First Stand-Up: What to Actually Say
Nobody hands you a script for your first daily stand-up. Here's exactly what to say, what to skip, and the mistake almost every first-timer makes.
Read more →Free template to get you moving
Project Charter Template
A one-page project charter to get sign-off on scope, objectives, and sponsor before you start work — the document most first-time PMs skip and later regret skipping.
View template → FREERAID Log Template
Track Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies in one running spreadsheet — the single most useful habit for anyone doing PM work without a formal system yet.
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