Choose a Project Management Exercise Around the Decision

Project management learning becomes easier to navigate when you choose a decision to practise. A course name can suggest a direction, but the available activity tells you what you will actually work on.

The fictional situations below illustrate different kinds of project-management practice. Use them to choose the output you want to create, then review the linked course overview for its current curriculum.

Start with ownership and a shared outcome

For an outcome-and-ownership exercise, imagine a delayed onboarding-portal project with eight weeks to launch. Explore READY’s Google Project Management-themed training for related learning. Priorities conflict, ownership is unclear and the team has not defined what a better result would look like.

This is a useful starting point if you want to practise separating an intended outcome from a list of deliverables. Your responsibility map should identify decisions, owners, boundaries and assumptions.

Ask: if the portal launches on time, what would still need to be true for the project to be useful? That question helps you examine success beyond finishing tasks.

Connect requirements and dependencies

For a delivery-systems exercise, imagine a community organization planning a room-booking service. Explore READY’s CAPM-relevant training for related learning. Requirements are incomplete, funding is limited and users have different needs.

Choose this scenario if you want to practise showing how parts of delivery depend on one another. A delivery-system map should make decisions and assumptions visible instead of presenting disconnected tasks.

Try one change: an important user group requests something new. Which assumptions, dependencies and decisions would you revisit? You do not need a large project plan to explain the effect clearly.

Examine a consequential release decision

For a release-decision exercise, imagine being two weeks before release, with an untested integration risk and a sponsor preparing an executive update. Explore READY’s PMP-relevant training for related learning.

This scenario suits learners who want to practise explaining a recommendation under uncertainty. Your decision record should separate known facts from unknowns, identify the people who need to participate and describe the next action and escalation conditions.

Avoid treating “release” or “delay” as the answer before you have examined the evidence and authority needed for the decision.

Compare your options in one paragraph

For each scenario, complete this sentence: “I want to practise making this decision, and my output will show…” Choose the activity that gives you a meaningful next step from your current experience.

After completing it, record one weakness in your first attempt and one revision that made the reasoning clearer. Label the work fictional. A practice output can show how you approached a problem without being presented as professional experience.

These are independent READY materials. A free READY account is required to access the free learning materials; check each course overview and lesson list before choosing where to start. READY does not award Google or PMI credentials, and these exercises do not establish exam eligibility, qualifying education hours or PDUs.