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Own the outcome.
Defend the number.
Project Manager Certificate
A ten-week certificate course in project management, taught from the manager's chair at Fennelwood Digital, a fictional thirty-eight person agency, and Ironvale Projects, a Lagos fit-out contractor whose client pays late. The senior manager leaves and you inherit his projects mid-flight, including one sold at a fixed price before anyone scoped it and one that will close at nine percent margin against twenty-eight planned. You scope, estimate and defend a number; build a schedule and shorten it two different ways with both costs named; level one designer across three projects; price changes against a written delegation that says what you may approve alone; choose between a project that is profitable and late and one that is on time and losing money; and tell a client their launch will miss, with options and a recommendation. Every decision you make is written down with its reasoning, because that is what the course grades.
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PICTURE YOUR NEXT CHAPTERYou have kept other people’s plans true. The next step is carrying the outcome.See the work you’ll practise
10 weeksA structured learning journey
32+ hoursCore course training
Learn + practiceLessons, quizzes & assignments
Assessed skillsKnowledge & practical tasks
THE SKILL BEHIND THE OPPORTUNITYDon’t just know what to say.
Don’t just know what to say.
Know what to do next.
A ten-week certificate course in project management taught from the manager's chair inside Fennelwood Digital, a fictional thirty-eight person agency with eleven live projects, and Ironvale Projects, a Lagos fit-out contractor. The student inherits four projects mid-flight when the senior manager leaves, then scopes and estimates a project that was sold at a fixed price before scoping, builds and compresses a schedule with costs named, levels one designer across three projects, works in margin, burn and forecast at completion, prices change orders against a written delegation of authority, chooses between a project that is profitable and late and one that is on time and losing money, delivers a missed launch to the client with options and a recommendation, and closes a project commercially. Two weeks of practicum run the full portfolio, and every decision is marked on the trade-off named, the evidence used, the people consulted and the written reasoning. The course follows the PMP exam outline and states plainly that finishing it does not meet PMI's experience requirement. It names no vendor credential and does not promise employment, income or placement.
Bring an option, not a refusal.
Bottom-up and analogous estimating
Learn · Practice · ApplyRoute it with a recommendation.
Reasoned contingency you can defend
Learn · Practice · ApplyYOUR PRACTICAL TOOLKIT
The schedule, built rather than updated · Resource levelling across competing projects · The baseline, and re-baselining · Margin, burn and forecast at completion · The delegation of authority · The decision record · Primavera P6, as an add-on
LESS IMAGINING. MORE UNDERSTANDING.Picture yourself
Picture yourself
doing the work.
Learn to defend an estimate, protect a margin, and deliver bad news yourself with options attached. Select a moment below to look inside the practice.
01A change order lands at 4,200 dollars.Learn where your authority ends, in dollars, before you need to know.↗
Digital agency, four inherited projects · management scenario
THE LIMIT
YOUR NEXT MOVE
Approve it, because it is inside the ten thousand dollar line that is yours alone, and log the reason.
A manager who does not know their own limits is the dangerous kind. Splitting one change into two to stay under it ends a career.
02It was sold before anyone scoped it.Scope it properly and find out what the price actually bought.↗
Digital agency, four inherited projects · management scenario
THE FIXED PRICE
YOUR NEXT MOVE
Scope it, estimate it two ways, and take three options to the head of delivery with a recommendation.
You cannot fix a price that was set before the scope. You can name the trade-off and let the right people choose.
03Two projects, one senior developer.Choose between profitable and late, and on time but losing money.↗
Digital agency, four inherited projects · management scenario
THE TRADE-OFF
YOUR NEXT MOVE
Decide, write the reasoning a successor could read, and say plainly what you gave up.
Every scenario here has more than one defensible answer. The mark is the reasoning, not the option.
04The launch will miss by three weeks.Deliver it to the client yourself, the way a manager has to.↗
Digital agency, four inherited projects · management scenario
THE MISS
YOUR NEXT MOVE
Cost overtime, descope and moving the date honestly, then tell the client with the options and your recommendation.
You never commit a client date the plan does not support, and you never let them hear it from someone else.
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Most courses in Nigeria teach you about a job. SchoolRegistry Academy makes you do it, inside a company built for your track, with your own work inbox, timed practicum shifts and marked work, until you have evidence an employer can check. On this track the company is Fennelwood Digital and Ironvale Projects, a fictional thirty-eight person digital agency and a Lagos fit-out contractor whose client pays late. You scope, estimate and defend the number, protect the margin, and tell a client their launch will miss, with options.
You do the job before you get the job.
Every track trains inside a made-up company that behaves like a real one: real requests, real customers, real deadlines, real consequences. You are not watching someone else work; you are doing the work.
Real tools, not slides about tools.
You work in the software the job actually uses, and a tools library inside your handbook holds the tutorials we checked ourselves.
Your own work email from day one.
Every student gets a real inbox on students.schoolregistry.ng. Mail from your fictional workplace arrives there, including the ones that are traps, so you learn to handle a workday inbox before an employer hands you one.
Two weeks of timed practicum shifts.
After eight weeks of lessons you work timed shifts on your simulator, graded the way an employer would grade you. Some mistakes fail the shift outright, the same mistakes that get people fired.
Your work is marked, with feedback you can act on.
Assignments are reviewed, returned with comments, and you resubmit until it is right. Certificates are only issued under the published rules: the required work done, tuition covered, an 80 percent overall result.
A community that keeps going after the course.
The Commons gives you rooms for your cohort, mentoring pairs, alumni opportunities and events. The Getting Hired course is included with every track. No job is promised; the evidence you leave with is real.
What will you learn in project manager training?
SchoolRegistry Academy’s Project Manager course is a ten-week online programme for people moving from coordinating work to owning the outcome. Classes are live on West Africa Time, and a self-paced version starts any day. First, students learn what changes when the outcome is theirs: the written delegation of authority that says which change they may approve alone, scoping work that was sold before it was scoped, bottom-up and analogous estimating, reasoned contingency, and the difference between burn and the margin a manager is measured on. Second, students practise building and compressing a schedule with the cost of each option named, levelling one designer across three competing projects, pricing change orders at the right level, choosing between a project that is profitable and late and one that is on time and losing money, delivering a missed launch to the client with options and a recommendation, and holding a performance conversation that is not a report, inside a fictional digital agency with eleven live projects and a Lagos fit-out contractor. Third, graded practice tasks, a two-week practicum running the full portfolio and a portfolio of written decisions create evidence of applied management judgment, marked on the trade-off named and the reasoning recorded rather than on choosing a preferred answer. The course follows the PMI PMP exam outline and states plainly that finishing it does not meet PMI’s experience requirement; PMI awards the PMP itself and its exam fee is separate. The programme develops demonstrable project management skills; it does not promise employment, income or the PMP credential.
How the Academy supports your progress
AI study support
Ask academic questions in the lesson player. The assistant uses lesson context but does not answer assignments or grade your work.
Practical task boards
Manage personal work and participate in assigned team tasks with columns, dependencies, comments and history.
Feedback and revision
Use tutor feedback, explain your changes and resubmit while the original and revised evidence remain available for review.
Your assessed portfolio is private by default. Sharing is optional and revocable. Available learning-media formats depend on the lesson; caption and low-bandwidth processing is still being completed across the library.
DESIGNED AROUND DOINGA course you
A course you
participate in.
Not just watch.
Build a habit of learning, applying, and improving. Each part of the week gives the next one a purpose.
Explore your ten weeks ↗THROUGH THE WEEK
Learn in focused sessions.
Work through self-paced lessons and check your understanding with module quizzes.
THROUGHOUT THE WEEK
Put the lesson to work.
Apply what you’ve learned through assignments and track-specific practical exercises.
ONCE A WEEK
Practice. Get feedback. Improve.
Join your track’s live session and submit your weekly assignment on the cohort schedule.
YOUR LEARNING ROADMAPTen weeks.
Ten weeks.
A stronger
skill set.
From the foundations to your final practical assessment, each stage builds on the last.
A clear standard at every step.
Module quizzes check understanding before you move forward. The final assessment includes written and practical work, then two practicum weeks on the job simulator.
01WEEK 1The seat+
What changes when the outcome is yours; the handover you inherit mid-flight and what is wrong with it; the delegation of authority in dollars; splitting a change to stay under your limit, named as a career-ender; your coordinator, your manager, and the leads from the other chair; the Lagos and US lanes.
- What changes on the day the outcome is yours
- The delegation of authority: what you approve alone, what Nadia approves, what the client signs
- Splitting one change into two to stay under your limit, and why that ends a career
- What a Lagos project manager owns on a fit-out, and what Babajide keeps [NG]
02WEEK 2Scoping and estimating+
Turning a proposal into a plan that can be delivered; a fixed price signed before scoping; bottom-up and analogous estimates, and what to do when they disagree; contingency that is reasoned; the single number a client will hold you to; bill rate, cost rate and margin; burn is not margin.
- Wesley sells before scoping: Mesa Verde signed at a fixed price
- Bottom up: estimating from work packages and known team speeds
- Contingency that is reasoned, not ten percent because it is always ten percent
- Bill rate, cost rate and margin: the number a manager is actually measured on
03WEEK 3The plan you own+
Building a schedule rather than updating one; durations from estimates and named people; the critical path as a place to spend money; fast tracking against crashing with both costs named; float as a budget; levelling one designer across three projects; re-baselining honestly, and the paper Nadia needs.
- The critical path as a decision tool, not a field on a report
- Fast tracking and crashing: what each costs and what each risks
- Ren is booked on three projects in the same fortnight: what levelling does to your dates
- When a re-baseline is honest and when it is hiding a slip
04WEEK 4People+
Assigning work to named people with known speeds; commitment rather than allocation; why loading someone to a hundred percent never works; the developer who has missed three committed dates; the private conversation with no audience and no report; feedback about the work with the evidence attached; costing three hire options.
- A developer has missed three committed dates: what you do before the standup
- The private conversation: the dates in front of you, no audience, no report
- Three options costed: agency, freelance, and moving somebody off another project
- The cheapest option spends another manager's schedule: how that decision gets made
05WEEK 5Money+
Margin, burn and forecast at completion; reading the finance sheet as a manager; a project that closed at nine percent against twenty-eight planned; pricing a change order; the change a client expects to be free; profitable and late against on time and losing money; vendors, advances and tranches.
- Bramblewood closed at nine percent against twenty-eight planned: where the hours went
- Pricing a change order: hours, rate, risk, and what the client is actually asking for
- Profitable and late against on time and losing money: which is the emergency
- Vendor payment realities at Ironvale: advances, tranches and the record you keep [NG]
06WEEK 6The client+
Scope against date against cost, and finding out which one is real; options with a recommendation; saying no and keeping the account; why managers over-promise; a renewal with a slip in its history and a fifteen percent discount ask; the line between managing a client and selling to one; recovering a relationship after a miss.
- The three things a client wants and the one they will actually choose
- What you never do: agree a discount on a signed contract without the account director
- What belongs to Wesley: the line between managing a client and selling to one
- The apology that is a plan, and the apology that is only an apology
07WEEK 7When it goes wrong and it is yours+
The build that will miss by three weeks, costed three ways and delivered by you; a person who is failing after feedback has not worked; the vendor who stops answering with a migration window eleven days out; an architecture disagreement that is your call; client data when you are the one who can authorise access.
- The build will miss by three weeks: the Coordinator reported it, you decide it
- Overtime, descope, or move the date: three options costed honestly
- Two engineers disagree on architecture and the decision is yours to make
- Why some work stays on-shore: the client NDA and SOC 2, named as reasons [US-D]
08WEEK 8Closing and the ladder+
Commercial close, final invoice and final margin; handover and warranty; lessons that change the next project; the manager's portfolio of decisions and what happened next; the PMP outline and the experience requirement stated plainly; the Lagos and US markets honestly; what a programme manager and a delivery lead do.
- Commercial close: final invoice, final margin, and what the contract says about both
- The manager's portfolio: decisions, their reasoning, and what happened next
- The experience requirement, plainly: what it is and why finishing this course does not meet it
- The Lagos market for project managers, honestly: who hires and what they ask [NG]
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK
Your next step, on your terms.
Keep the curriculum, fees, start date, and study checklist in one handy course guide.
A SMALL TASTE OF THE TRAININGA moment of judgment.
A moment of judgment.
What would you do?
Start with good judgment. Try this illustrative exercise and see the reasoning behind a useful response.
SAMPLE EXERCISE No sign-up. No score saved.
PRACTICAL JUDGMENT01 / 01
The client will renew if we take fifteen percent off. Can you just agree it? It is a big account.
Choose your next response.
sr / SCHOOLREGISTRY ACADEMYCERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENTEarned through
Earned through
demonstrated skill.
Project Manager Certificate
KNOWLEDGE
COMMUNICATION
EXECUTIONSR
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SAMPLE DESIGN · NOT AN ISSUED CREDENTIAL
MORE THAN COURSE COMPLETIONA certificate.
A certificate.
And the work behind it.
The SchoolRegistry Academy certificate is assessed through knowledge and practical tasks—not simply time spent watching lessons.
- A written assessment of your understanding
- Track-specific practical assessment
- Applied work that demonstrates your skills
- A unique certificate ID and verification page
Issued by SchoolRegistry Academy. This is not a third-party accreditation or a guarantee of employment.
MAKE AN INFORMED CHOICEIs this your
Is this your
next step?
A good fit if you…
- You have coordinated or organised work and the part you want next is the deciding, not more of the tracking.
- You would rather defend a number with your working shown than give the number somebody wants to hear.
- You can tell a client bad news on Tuesday with options attached instead of a comfortable report on Friday.
Plan for the practicalities.
A computer, headset, reliable internet, and a quiet place to practice will help you participate. Check the live-session schedule before enrolling.
Future US-client work may involve afternoon or evening hours in Nigeria.
GIVE YOUR LEARNING A DIRECTIONSkills with a
Skills with a
role in mind.
Roles this training prepares you to pursue. Start with the work you want to do, then build the skills to demonstrate it.
Project Manager
Own scope, schedule, budget and margin across several client projects, and the client conversations that go with them.
YOUR TRAINING CONNECTION
Estimates with their working, change decisions, a recovery plan and written decision records.
Delivery Manager
Run a delivery team and a portfolio: commitments, levelling, forecasting and escalation.
YOUR TRAINING CONNECTION
Forecasts at completion, levelled plans and post-mortems that name decisions.
Programme or Project Lead
Carry several related projects and the trade-offs between them, including shared people.
YOUR TRAINING CONNECTION
Portfolio reporting, prioritisation calls and the reasoning behind each one.
Employers may also ask for a specific tool, sector experience, or a PMP or PRINCE2 credential, which are awarded by their own bodies and not by the Academy. The PMP also has an experience requirement that no course can meet for you. Employment is not guaranteed; role titles and hiring requirements vary by employer.
THE SKILL IS ONLY PART OF YOUR STORY
Explore enrollment ↗Learn how to show what you can do.
The shared Career Readiness course covers your LinkedIn profile, résumé, interview practice, and getting paid as an international remote contractor. Describe practice honestly as training—not employment.
The PMP, from PMI
The Project Management Professional is the credential hiring managers recognise for a manager's seat. This course follows its exam outline lesson by lesson and ends with a timed practice exam that reports your score by domain, so you can see where you actually are.
PMI awards it, not us, and the exam fee is theirs and separate. The PMP also has an experience requirement that PMI verifies, and no course meets it for you, including this one. The lessons say that plainly rather than leaving you to discover it after you have paid someone. We are not a PMI Authorized Training Partner and do not claim contact hours on your behalf.
The Academy certificate proves the work you did here. The PMP is a separate exam with its own experience requirement you meet on the job.
Talent should have
more than one way forward.
Need help with your course fee? Apply for a Founder's Scholarship before enrolling. You can also invite a family member, employer, or supporter to sponsor all or part of your training.
Scholarship awards depend on review and available budget. Sponsorship does not guarantee admission, certification, or employment.
INVEST IN A SKILL YOU CAN USEYour next chapter
Your next chapter
starts with
one clear step.
Choose your payment option. Get a clear view of the commitment before making your decision.
One track. The complete program.
- Ten-week structured curriculum: eight taught weeks and two practicum weeks
- Self-paced lessons and module quizzes
- One live practice session a week
- Weekly assignments and final assessment
- Certificate when requirements are met
PROJECT MANAGER CERTIFICATE10-week program
Pay in full or choose two installments at checkout.
Prefer to start today? Choose the self-paced tier at checkout: no cohort dates, coached and graded online, 12 months of access, ₦300,000 for standard tracks and ₦375,000 for premium tracks. How the self-paced tier works ↗
₦375,000
Full course fee · or ₦187,500 × 2 installments
- Total course fee
- ₦375,000
- Format
- Online + live practice
- Cohort start
- Oct 12, 2026 · 11 AM WAT
Choose your payment plan securely at checkout.
Questions? Book a free advising call ↗Choose an available time with the Academy team. All times are WAT.
BEFORE YOU DECIDEGood questions.
Good questions.
Straight answers.
How is this different from the Project Coordinator course?+
The Coordinator prepares and never decides: the board, the logs, the status report, the reconciliation. The Manager carries the outcome. You set the estimate rather than track it, you price the change rather than raise it, you approve inside a written delegation, and you take the margin and the client conversation. The story continues too: the Coordinator course runs to week twenty-six, and this one starts when the senior manager leaves and you inherit his projects. You do not need the Coordinator course first, but if you did it, this is the same agency and the same projects from the other chair.
Do I need to be a project manager already?+
No, and the course assumes you are not. It starts on the day the outcome becomes yours and teaches the authority question first, because a manager who does not know their own limits is the dangerous kind. If you have coordinated, organised or run anything where other people's work depended on your plan, you have the ground this builds on.
Does this make me PMP eligible?+
No, and the course says so in its own lessons. The PMP has an experience requirement that PMI verifies, and finishing a course does not meet it. What this does is cover the exam outline lesson by lesson and end with forty timed questions that report your score by domain, so you know where you stand before you commit to anything. PMI awards the PMP, not us, and its fee is separate.
Is there any real software, or is it all video?+
You build and change schedules in the twin, on the same projects the lessons are discussing, so you are operating a scheduling tool rather than watching one. For the construction, engineering and oil and gas lane there is a Primavera P6 add-on that takes the Fennelwood and Ironvale schedules into P6. It is optional and sold separately, because most agency managers never touch P6 and we would rather not charge everyone for it.
What happens in the last two weeks?+
Weeks nine and ten are the practicum, and you run the full eleven-project portfolio with work arriving at realistic rates: the estimates, the change pricing, the levelling, the client conversations, the hire, the miss delivered to the client, the failing team member, the vendor escalation and the architecture call. Every scenario has more than one defensible answer. The mark is not whether you chose the option we prefer. It is whether you named the trade-off, used the evidence you had, consulted the people whose call it partly was, and wrote it down so a successor can see why.
Can I do this alongside a job?+
It is built for that. Lessons are recorded and quiz-gated so you move at your own pace through the week, with one live class. There is also a self-paced version with no fixed dates that you can start any day.
When does the cohort begin?+
October 12, 2026 at 11:00 AM WAT (Nigeria). Each track has one live class a week; the day is confirmed in your enrollment information.
Is a job guaranteed?+
No. The Academy develops and assesses skills. Employment depends on your performance, employer requirements, and available roles.
Can I start now instead of waiting for the cohort?+
Yes. The self-paced tier opens the day you pay, has no cohort dates, and is coached and graded online with 12 months of access. It costs ₦300,000 for standard tracks and ₦375,000 for premium tracks, and scholarships do not apply to it. The certificate rules are identical.
What does the fee include?+
₦375,000 covers this track. You can pay in full or in two ₦187,500 installments, with the balance due three weeks later. Review the handbook and checkout terms before paying.
A little clarity.
A more confident decision.
Talk through this course, your experience and how to get started. Choose a time from the Academy team’s shared availability.
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A certificate should be
easy to check.
Employers and partners can confirm the current status of a shared SchoolRegistry Academy certificate using its 12-character ID.
Verify a certificate ↗Related career guides
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