2017 – Book & Online Course
The course reference manual was published as the book Deeply Practical Project Management, together with an online version of the course, in 2017.
As of 2026, the online DPPM courses together had more than 150K students from around the world, validating the need for a practical PM methodology that can be used immediately by anyone, for any size project and domain.
2020 – Professional Example
In response to repeated requests from students, a complete set of professional project management documentation was prepared for a realistic, multi-domain project example called Magical Devices Version 3 (MDV3), demonstrating how the DPPM methodology can be implemented in real life.
The MDV3 example is complete, including a project charter, project management plan, stakeholder register, requirements, work breakdown structure, precedence diagram, Gantt schedule, risk register, and related elements. The example can be easily modified for any kind of project, from $10K to $10B. The MDV3 example is now used by tens of thousands of people around the world as a model to build the documentation for their own projects.
2021 – Certification
An informal practical project manager certification was provided to those that finished the DPPM course. As of 2024, thousands of people were referencing the DPPM course and their certifications on LinkedIn, demonstrating the need for a more formal process to provide an official DPPM certification validated by an exam.
2022 – Software Guide
In response to student requests, the book How To Plan Your Project With Microsoft Office was published. This book provides step-by-step descriptions of how to use the Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Project applications to plan your project's scope, schedule, and budget. It describes how to generate all the reports you need for professional project management, including all the reports in the MDV3 example project management plan.
2024 - Methodologies Book
To help explain the difference between project management and project development, too often combined to great confusion, the book Project Development Methodologies was published. This book describes the most common methodologies for development of the project output within the execution stage, including Waterfall, Incremental, Iterative, Spiral, Lean, Kanban, Agile, Scrum, and others.
Over-arching recommendations are included for any kind of project. Understanding how these methodologies developed and why provides the deep background that enable project managers to optimize the processes for their projects and in general throughout all their work.
