“How do I create all these documents that I need for my project? I don’t have any formal PM training”

The good news:

You got your first project.

The flip side:

You may not have any PM experience.

You may have done bits and pieces of the PM job before.

You may have created a project plan.

You’ve spoken with clients.

But you’ve never really created a project charter

… a project management plan …

… or a risk management plan.

All these formal activities, you’ve never done any of that.

But no matter what project – it always starts with creating the documentation.

So you google “Project management documents”...

And you come across these intimidating lists of the documents you need to compile:

• Project Management Plan
• Project Schedule
• Project Budget
• Requirements Documentation
• Change management plan
• Issue Log
• Stakeholder Register
• Work Breakdown Structure
• Resource Breakdown Structure
• ….

OMG!

Do you need all these documents?

You are not sure.

What you know for sure: All eyes are on you, and your boss is expecting it to get things moving quickly. Set up the project, meet with the client, get to work.

The client is already waiting for you to show up.

So you need to compile all these documents.

But you say to yourself:

“I don’t understand how to create all these documents and I don’t know how to write them in a way that sounds official”

And there’s really nobody you could ask for help.

If you approached your coworkers, they may say: 'Hey, you are the project leader, YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO KNOW THIS!'

And what if you messed up? What will your boss, your client, your coworkers say?

For good reasons, you are getting nervous. Because:

You don’t want to fail miserably by sending around documents that sound like they were written by an AMATEUR.

Because in the end, the customer and other high-level folks will look at your documents.

And if it looks like you don’t know what you are talking about, that’s a problem.

Receiving an email like this could have drastic consequences.

The project may be given to somebody else.

Or this may be your last project.

At the very least, it will create a lot of anxiety and stress for you, that will kill your self-confidence and distract you from doing your job the best way you can.

So the fact that you are taking the project documentation topic seriously is absolutely right.

Because here’s the thing:

If you are not able to create project documentation that looks professional, you can’t command respect from anybody – neither from your client nor from your team.

But you need that respect so that everybody will view you as the leader.

So that people will listen to you.

So that people will follow your orders.

So that you’ll hit your milestones.

So that you’ll be the next person up for a big promotion.

And get the most exciting projects at your company.

You want to become the project manager that your boss is happy to trust with any project and any task, no matter how difficult.

The good news is: Creating professionally-looking project documents isn’t rocket science. You can have all the necessary documents ready in one week!

Yes, it shouldn’t take you longer than that!

I usually had all my documents ready in one week.

And the projects I used to manage were big corporate projects such as IT implementations. Complex scope, lots of people involved.

My advantage was that I had templates for every purpose, so that made the process very easy!

It was almost like painting by numbers:

There is a section for each type of information regarding your project:

For example, the scope just goes into the project charter, the risks go into the risk log, the meeting schedule you put into the communication plan and so on.

You just keep going.

And once you have all your documents ready, you have a well-planned project that you can start confidently!

And anybody who will review and approve your documents will see that you have put in the work and you know what you are doing:

Now the question is: what documents do you need for your project?

How do you actually create documents that look professional, even when you have little or no PM experience?

I can help you.

I have put together an instant-access video course with the must-have project management document templates, plus to-the-point, step-by-step walkthroughs which walk you through the process of putting together all your project documents.

This way, you’ll be able to create all the necessary documents for your project in just a week - no matter how big your workload currently is.