The Foundation program

The Foundation Program brings together the essential areas of effective project work. It covers both the structured management of projects and the human side of moving them forward – from planning and decision-making to collaboration, communication, and responsibility.

The content is available through open workshops, customized in-house programs, and self-paced learning, supported by professional templates, in-depth articles, and e-books.

The content is grounded in PMI standards and the current PMBOK® Guide. It is designed for application in real projects, not as preparation for PMI certification. Even in open workshops, the focus is on how the principles and practices can be applied appropriately within each participant’s company, department, and project environment—taking existing project management approaches into account rather than imposing a rigid, one-size-fits-all framework.

Over several decades of working on national and international projects and delivering workshops for clients, I have repeatedly observed the same pattern: projects move into execution before objectives, requirements, responsibilities, risks, decision paths, and success criteria have been sufficiently clarified.

Teams may appear to make rapid progress, but later they are forced to return to questions that should have been resolved at the outset. Work has to be repeated, decisions are reopened, and changes trigger improvised reactions instead of being handled through an established Project Change Management process.

The result is not only a loss of time. Projects also consume substantial additional budget.

This is more than an observation from practice. Research into specific aspects of project management points to the same weaknesses. Unclear objectives, inadequate requirements management, insufficient sponsor support, weak decision-making processes, and unclear project structures repeatedly contribute to poor project performance and significant financial loss.

I am convinced that a company’s greatest strength does not lie in adding more and more specialized project management topics. It lies in establishing an excellent foundation that enables project managers and teams to identify and resolve problems, risks, and open questions quickly during execution — and to bring a project back on track when necessary.

A project needs more than isolated tools or a brief introduction to methodologies. It needs a solid foundation that gives project managers and teams the overview, structure, and discipline required throughout the entire project lifecycle.

Once this foundation is firmly in place, companies can add more specialized capabilities where they are needed. Topics such as project portfolio oversight, stakeholder management, risk and opportunity management, benefit realization, or agile approaches can strengthen project work—but they cannot compensate for missing fundamentals.

Further topics are available through our supporting workshops and can be selected according to the company’s specific needs.

Create clarity. Make decisions. Execute. —
step by step, phase by phase, through project completion.

In-house workshops built around
your organization’s project reality.

For in-house workshops, I build the seminar or training program with you around your organization’s actual project reality.

The content, structure and level of detail are adapted to what your employees need and what your organization wants to develop. This can be the introduction of project management processes, a specific project management topic, or a broader training program.

For larger programs, I prepare the content concept, session structure, sequence, timing between sessions and the integration of specific requirements.