The six week course · Practical Project Management

Six weeks. One real project.

The full delivery lifecycle, end to end, on a live scenario. You don't learn delivery from a textbook. You learn it by being in the room — under pressure, making decisions, producing outputs that stand up to scrutiny. Digital Delivery Academy is that room.

6weeks to ILM Level 5 50+online teaching videos 36real PM artefacts 6 hrslive Decision Labs AIembedded from week one
The lifecycle

The whole project, not a chapter of it.

You take one project from a blank page to a live service and run every stage of it yourself. Each week you produce the documents a real delivery team produces, then defend the decisions behind them live, out loud, with a cohort watching.

Discovery Planning Build / Execution Control & Testing Cutover / Go Live Hypercare / Close

Hold PRINCE2 or APM PMQ? This is the same delivery lifecycle those courses describe, run for real on a live project, with the evidence to prove you did it.

The programme

What the course delivers.

Designed around your 9-to-5. Each week, video lessons release on a steady pace — work through them on your own time, around the day job. You produce practical outputs from every lesson. Then you join the live Decision Labs with your cohort.

The qualification

ILM Level 5 Certificate

Operational Leadership & Management Skills. The practitioner-grade credential employers actually point to, awarded through City & Guilds.

Self-paced

50+ online teaching videos

Released weekly. Work through them on your own time, around the day job. Practical outputs from every lesson.

Live sessions

Decision Labs

Six hours of real-pressure project scenarios across the programme with your cohort. Pressure-tested calls in real time.

What you'll walk out with

Six weeks. Six concrete deliverables.

You're not just earning a certificate. You're walking out with a portfolio of work, a credential, and the practical AI-powered confidence to step into a project management role and start delivering from day one.

ILM Level 5 Certificate in Operational Leadership & Management

The practitioner-grade credential employers point to, awarded through City & Guilds.

A portfolio of 36 real PM artefacts

Project Plan, Charter, RAID, BRD, RACI, Change Log, Defect Tracker, Cutover Plan, Closure Report — everything you'd produce on a live project, end-to-end.

Six hours of live Decision Lab experience

Pressure-tested calls, defects, escalations, chairing a cutover call, Go/No-Go decisions — the muscle memory that separates passing from delivering.

AI-powered delivery practice

Working prompts and tested AI workflows embedded into every step of the PM day — so you automate the heavy lifting and operate the way the next generation already does.

Membership of the Academy community

Ongoing access to current templates, working AI setups, weekly updates and a network of PMs going through the same transition.

The confidence to deliver from day one

Not theoretical readiness. Practical, pressure-tested experience of running a project end-to-end.

Inside

What you actually get access to.

Real PM templates

  • Project Plan
  • Project Charter
  • RAID Log & Risk Register
  • Business Requirements Doc
  • RACI matrix
  • Change Request log
  • Cutover Plan
  • Closure Report

Live Decision Labs

  • Six 60-min war-room sessions
  • Real-time scenario walkthroughs
  • Defect triage drills
  • Go/No-Go calls under pressure
  • Chairing a cutover call
  • Recordings shared with cohort

AI prompt library

  • Charter drafting prompts
  • RAID assessment prompts
  • Stakeholder analysis flows
  • Status reporting templates
  • Tested on real DDA scenarios
  • Updated monthly as tools shift

The Academy

  • Safe space for like-minded PMs
  • Ask the questions you can't at work
  • Weekly AI best-practice updates
  • Evolves as the tools evolve
  • Peer review of artefacts
  • Ongoing access post-certification
How we stand behind it

The Pass Guarantee.

If you complete the programme honestly and don't pass the ILM Level 5 portfolio first time, we'll coach you through your resit at no additional cost. The Academy is built to make you ready to deliver — not to leave you on the hook for a grade.

What “completing honestly” looks like — to qualify, you must:

  • Attend all six live Decision Labs — and actively participate
  • Complete all video lessons across the six weeks
  • Submit all output sheets and deliverables on time
  • Submit and action weekly feedback — show the changes

Your effort is part of the deal. The guarantee covers people who turn up and put the work in — not people who coast through and expect the outcome anyway.

Where it takes you

Built for the roles that decide who keeps delivering.

Graduates step into delivery roles across defence, energy, professional services, public sector and corporate technology delivery — as the candidate who can prove they deliver, not just the one with the right cert on the CV.

Project ManagerProgramme ManagerDelivery Lead Risk & GovernanceOperational LeadershipCapability Development

Next cohort: Monday 2 November.

£1,345.50 booked in 2026 · £1,995 from January 2027 · five 2027 intakes · free SAFe Scrum Master course and exam with every 2026 booking · Finance options availabledates & finance

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