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The Eddie System™ · Live PMO

Every PM job asks for experience.
This is where you build it.

You pick a realistic enterprise project, make the decisions, build the deliverables, and present the work at a live phase gate where you answer for it. Training included. No PMP, no PM title and no technical background required.

No PM title required. No PMP certificate required. Start at the level that makes sense for you.

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From inside a Live PMO phase gate

Jay A.Presenting her charter0:22

“The project was cancelled in week eight.”

Real member session · Real project scenario

The experience gap

You can know what a project manager does, and still have never had to do it.

  • A course can teach you what a RAID log is.
  • A certification can teach you the process.
  • A video can show you what a project charter looks like.

But eventually somebody asks

“What did you do when the project started slipping?”

Why did you recommend that decision? How did you handle the risk? What changed because of what you did?

Those are different questions. They are not asking what you know. They are asking whether you have learned to think through the work.

That part only comes from reps.

The idea behind the Live PMO

This isn’t more information. It’s repetition.

  1. 01 · See the situation

    Understand what you have been handed

    The objective, the people, the constraints, and what has changed.

  2. 02 · Make the call

    Decide with what you have

    Work out what you would do with the information available.

  3. 03 · Build the work

    Turn thinking into the deliverable

    Produce the artifact or the recommendation the project needs.

  4. 04 · Explain why

    Put it in front of people

    Present your thinking and answer the questions it raises.

  5. 05 · Do it again

    New problem, better judgement

    A different situation, a different call, and a little more range.

That is how project management starts becoming something you can actually talk about.

What reps actually look like

Same person. Three months apart.

0

Day one

Never presented a project

24

Three months later

Phase gates presented

Mujidah A.

Joined June 2026

  • 6projects run
  • 24phase gates presented
  • 16approved
“It has changed my positioning, my confidence, and my sense of empowerment as a PM. Not just by a notch, but by several notches.

My presentation skills have improved tremendously. For those of you doing the audit simulations, I would challenge you to think about how much more confidence you can get from actually presenting your phase gates and receiving feedback. I know it can be scary, but it’s worth it.”

Mujidah, three months and six projects in

She did become a different project manager. The reps are what changed her.

At some point, more preparation stops solving the experience gap.

You need somewhere to practice.

How it actually works.

The Eddie System is built around realistic project work, not passive content. You enter an environment where projects move, decisions have consequences, deliverables have a purpose, and your thinking can be questioned.

Inside the Live PMO

Don’t take my word for it. Step into the room.

Francisca A.Presenting the evidence0:48

“We tested it on the exact hardware.”

The mandate was a three second load on a store tablet. She measured it on the tablet, during trading hours, with every other system sharing the bandwidth.

Erin O.Answering on her pilot plan0:33

“Is 10 people enough, or do you need a minimum threshold?”

Her pilot screens applications with AI. The question was whether ten of them could prove anything, and what minimum she was willing to write into the plan before calling the pilot a success.

Mujidah A.On a project she inherited0:26

“Is there any concern for you as being the PM now?”

The project manager before her had raised concerns, had them refused, and left. She was asked, on the record, whether the same thing worried her now.

Rogelio R.Answering for his project’s history0:46

“Why did the project roll back in 2023?”

The same system had already been rolled back once. His answer was that nobody had asked the people who actually run it, and that this time they are in the room.

Abubaker K.Reporting a gap in his plan0:34

“A specific person who owns that process was not mentioned.”

Everything was in the plan and in the charter except a name. With nobody owning the process, everybody had assumed somebody else was covering it.

Shaquanda T.Holding a scope line0:45

“But what if your stakeholder is like, no, I want it now?”

She had moved one workstream to a later phase. The question was what she would say to the stakeholder who wanted it now, and her answer was that it is not in the scope or the budget currently.

These are clips from actual Live PMO phase gate sessions. Members bring their work into the room, explain the decisions they made and answer questions before the project moves forward. The project scenario is simulated. The presentation, questions, answers, decisions and feedback actually happened inside the Live PMO.

Next live walkthrough · Sat · 11:00 AM EDT

Want to see the whole thing live before you decide?

Every Saturday, Eddie walks through the Live PMO, shows how the projects and phase gates work, and answers questions live.

Ready now?

Your turn

Now imagine it’s your project.

  1. 01 · Project brief

    You are given the context

    The objective, the constraints, the environment and who matters. From that point the decisions are yours.

  2. 02 · Project days

    The situation starts moving

    Risks surface. Assumptions fail. Dates move under you. You work through changing conditions and make the calls.

  3. 03 · Project health

    Your choices land somewhere

    Budget, schedule, scope, risk and stakeholder confidence move in response to what you decided. You live with the consequences.

  4. 04 · Deliverables

    Build the work the project needs

    Charter, plan, RAID, RACI, status, change request, closure. You build them. The thinking inside them is yours.

  5. 05 · Phase gates

    Explain your thinking

    Four gates: the charter at day 6, the plan at day 12, the steering committee update and change request at day 18, and closure at day 24. You present, and you answer for the work.

  6. 06 · Outcome

    See where the decisions took it

    A person decides, out loud, and tells you why. Then you see where the cumulative choices left the project.

27 project days · 5 phases · 4 phase gates

This is where project management concepts stop being vocabulary and start becoming judgement.

You are not thrown into the deep end

Nobody starts at the gate.

And you do not have to walk in already knowing everything. When you join, your first job is not to open every tab or find the perfect project. It is to get oriented and choose a starting direction.

Training first

Build the foundation before you add reps

Use this if you want more structure around how projects work before going deep into a simulation.

Simulation first

Learn by getting into the work

Use this if you already understand the basics and want to start making project decisions.

Hybrid

Learn something, apply it, repeat

Pair focused training with one project instead of trying to complete everything at once.

There is one journey. These are simply different ways into it. Clarity first. Then action.

What happens after you join

  1. 01Enter the PMO. Start inside PMO Entry and orientation, and see how the environment works.
  2. 02Choose your direction. Training first, simulation first or hybrid.
  3. 03Begin one focused piece of work. Not everything. One next step.
  4. 04Build from there. Training, project work, phase gates and career support start connecting as you go.

You are not dropped into a giant library and told good luck.

And you present when you decide to, not before

Every project has a self-paced mode where the gates pass automatically: no document to upload, no slot to book, nobody watching. Plenty of members run their whole first project that way. The live gate is there when you want it. Move at your own pace.

The work

Templates don’t build judgement. Using them does.

A template shows you what a document looks like. A project forces you to decide what goes inside it.

Click any document to open it

The difference is ownership.

You aren’t collecting project documents. You’re using them to move a project forward.

Three weeks apart

Sarah did the work, put in the reps, and landed the job.

Both of these are her own posts inside the community, three weeks apart.

01 She did the work

Sarah Edwards

Feb 14 · General

My First Project Charter: Medicaid Modernization to Cerner System

One hard decision I made: as the PM on this project, I declined a request from executive leadership to accelerate the go-live timeline, because it would have increased risk around data migration, testing and CMS reporting compliance. Instead I recommended a phased implementation that balanced visible progress with operational stability.

Project charterRev 1.0

Medicaid Modernization to Cerner System

Project manager
S. Edwards
Sponsor
Exec sponsor, Health Systems Transformation
Approach
Phased implementation

Key decision

Accelerated go-live declined. Risk to data migration, testing and CMS reporting compliance.

Project charter · 1 attachment
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02 It turned into a job

The offer

+$60k

on her salary

First

official PM title

Sarah Edwards

Mar 6 · Career Growth & Wins

My WIN for the week!!

Actually creating the documents and understanding how projects move through the phases gave me that “aha” moment I was missing before.

I recently interviewed for a Revenue Cycle Project Manager position and received the offer, increasing my salary by 60k. My first official PM title. This honestly helped me feel more confident going into the interview, because I could actually speak to the deliverables, the process and how projects run.

If you’re early in the program, stick with it. The more you work through the materials and practise creating the documents, the more it starts to make sense.

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She did the work. The confidence and the results came after.

Your first mission

Start with one project.

You do not need to compare every simulation.

You do not need to find the perfect project.

One project is enough to start.

  1. 01Take ownership.
  2. 02Work the problem.
  3. 03Build the artifacts.
  4. 04Enter the gates.
  5. 05Reach closure.

The shortest simulation path is designed around a 27-day minimum, giving you a concrete operating challenge instead of an endless library to browse.

Included: your PM Career Audit

You can submit your background, resume and goals for a personalised review covering how your experience currently reads, your PM positioning, which simulation direction may be most useful, and where to focus in your first 30 days.

The point is not to hand you another plan to restart from. It is to sharpen the direction you are already building.

But one project is only how you start.

What happens after project one?

You build range.

01

Take a retail analytics dashboard to closure

Power BI · 5,200 stores · $1.8M

Work one project through the full lifecycle, initiation to closure. The point of the first one is finding out you can finish it.

02

Then run an ERP rollout, or a ServiceNow replacement

Oracle Cloud ERP · SAP to Salesforce · BMC Remedy to ServiceNow

Different constraints, different stakeholders, different failure modes. A finance migration behaves nothing like a service desk cutover.

03+

Then the ones that make a resume look different

AI recruitment POC · SIEM migration · Windows 11 estate · Data lake · Incident response automation

Keep going until your record stops being one story and starts being a pattern.

The goal isn’t one perfect project story. The goal is to become someone who has reps.

  • ›Someone who has seen projects change.
  • ›Someone who has defended a decision.
  • ›Someone who has been challenged on the work.
  • ›Someone who has gone back and made it better.
  • ›Someone who doesn’t have to answer every PM question from theory.

The real goal

The person you’re trying to become isn’t theoretical.

They’re capable.

  • 01They can look at an unclear project and identify what matters.
  • 02They can make a recommendation without perfect information.
  • 03They can turn messy information into a clear project artifact.
  • 04They can explain a risk without panicking.
  • 05They can take questions without hiding behind the document.
  • 06They can receive feedback, adjust and follow through.
  • 07They can explain a project from objective to outcome.

That is what the reps are for.

The shift

What changes once you start operating.

  1. Exposure

    You see how the work actually moves

    Not how a book says it moves. How it moves when people disagree.

  2. Artifacts

    You start turning information into project work

    The document stops being a form and becomes the way you think it through.

  3. Decisions

    You have to make the call

    With what you have, by the date you have, and then live with it.

  4. Language

    You get better at explaining what happened and why

    Which is most of what an interview is actually testing.

  5. Confidence

    You stop reaching for the textbook answer

    Because you have one of your own, and you know where it came from.

Confidence comes after the reps, not before them.

From inside

What our members are saying.

Sarah

Four weeks in

“Actually creating the documents and understanding how projects move through the phases gave me that aha moment that I was missing before. I could actually speak to the deliverables, the process, and how projects run.”

Nana

On presenting at the gates

“Structured thinking, one. Two, thinking on your feet. And three, being able to defend your ideas in front of multiple stakeholders who look at things differently.”

Monique

On a charter she built

“One project challenged me to create a charter with very little information. I leaned into the fundamentals, asked the right questions, and trusted the process.”

Mujidah

Three months in

“Instead of sounding like someone trying to learn everything on the job, you start communicating and making decisions like a PM who understands the concepts and knows what to look for.”

Navya

On getting interviews

“I have my PMP and some solid experience, but I still didn’t feel fully confident leading projects at the level top-tier companies expect. This helped me connect the dots. Not just how to land interviews, but how to think, speak and lead like a real project manager.”

Sivaparvathi

On starting before she felt ready

“I wanted to withdraw. Instead I realised that readiness is a myth. I gave my first charter presentation with only half the self-study done, and I’m feeling more confident than ever. If you’re waiting for 100% to start, don’t.”

119 phase gate presentations reviewed and approved · 85 projects taken to closure

What is real / what is simulated

We simulate the project so you can practice the work.

Simulated

  • The project

Real

  • The work you produce
  • The decisions you make
  • The documents you build
  • The governance you work inside
  • The accountability for your calls
  • The questions you’re asked
  • The presentation
  • The feedback and the revisions
  • The phase gate conversation

Real people. Real governance. Real review. Real reps. Simulated project.

The project scenario is simulated: it gives you the business situation, the constraints, the stakeholders and the changing conditions. The decisions are yours, the work is yours, and in Live PMO mode the review is real. You put the work in front of people, answer questions and respond to feedback.

Built by Eddie Rizvi

I’m not here to give you the answer. I want to hear why you made the decision.

I have spent more than a decade managing IT and technology projects across environments including banking, retail, telecom and manufacturing.

The biggest shift in my own career did not happen because I memorised more project management theory. It happened when I got close enough to real projects to see how experienced PMs operated, and then started getting those reps myself. That is the environment I wanted to recreate here.

So at a phase gate my job is not to lecture you. It is to ask the question the project needs answered. That is what changes the exercise: you are not only submitting a document, you have to understand your own work well enough to explain it.

  • Why that date?
  • Who owns that risk?
  • What happens if the vendor slips?
  • What evidence proves the pilot worked?
  • Who actually approved this?

Eventually, those are the questions I want you asking yourself before anybody else has to.

Eddie Rizvi · Program Director, Live PMO

Nana N.Answering on his go-live0:42

“How are you going to go live if there’s nobody there to run the NOC?”

Enter the Live PMO

A place to gain real experience. $99/month.

Live PMO membership

$99USD / MONTH

One membership. One price. No contract.

  • Realistic project simulations
  • Live PMO phase gate sessions
  • Core project management training
  • Project tools and templates
  • Jira and Excel practice
  • Phase gate replays and the member community
  • AI Builder for PMs
  • Your PM Career Audit
  • Job-landing resources

$99 USD/month · Cancel anytime · 7-day money-back guarantee

See everything included

Projects

A library of realistic enterprise project simulations across industries, available from day one.

Training

Self-paced project management training covering governance, the documents and how they fit together.

The PM Briefcase

Charter, plan, RAID, RACI, schedule, status report, change request and closure templates.

Phase gates

Live presentation slots with a coach. Book one as soon as your deliverable is ready.

Real people

A working PMO community you can actually talk to. Ask a question, get an answer from a person, and bring your work to somebody before you present it.

AI Builder for PMs

A second community included with your membership, where we build things with AI. Websites, apps, internal tools and automations, put together step by step.

Recorded sessions

Past phase gate reviews, so you know what the questions sound like before one is pointed at you.

Community & career

The member community, plus resume, LinkedIn and interview guides.

7-day money-back guarantee

Tell us inside seven days and we refund in full. No questions asked.

Month to month

No long-term commitment.

Honest experience

Simulated project practice. Not employment, and not a job guarantee.

Not ready?

Watch the free live walkthrough. Sat · 11:00 AM EDT.

Go inside. See how the PMO works.

Complete your PMO Entry. Choose your starting direction. Begin the first piece of work that makes sense for you.

If the environment is not what you expected, email us within the first 7 days for a refund under the existing guarantee.

Quick answers.

I’m from construction, healthcare, finance, government. Will this work for me?
Yes. This is project management, not one industry’s version of it. Members come from construction, healthcare, energy, banking, government, manufacturing, logistics, education and plenty of other places. The library covers a wide range of sectors, and the part that transfers is the governance: scope that moves, a schedule that will not hold, stakeholders who want different things and a decision you have to make on Tuesday with incomplete information. Start in the industry you already understand, and the discipline comes with you wherever you go next.
Is this a course?
Not in the traditional sense. There is training inside The Eddie System, but the core experience is built around practising project management work through realistic simulations, project artifacts, decisions and Live PMO phase gates.
Do I need a PMP or a technical background?
No. Members start from different backgrounds and different levels of PM exposure. That is exactly why you can begin training first, simulation first, or with a hybrid approach.
What happens right after I join?
You start inside PMO Entry. You get oriented, see how the environment works, and choose a starting direction: training first, simulation first or hybrid. Then you begin one focused piece of work. You are not expected to use everything at once.
Do I have to present live immediately?
No. You can observe phase gates before presenting. When you decide to run a project through the Live PMO, the phase gates become part of that project’s governance and review process.
Are these real company projects?
The projects are realistic simulations, and you are not working for the company named in the scenario. The decisions you make, the artifacts you build and the presentations you complete are work you actually perform inside the simulation and Live PMO environment.
Can I talk about the projects in an interview or on my resume?
You can talk about work you genuinely completed and the decisions, artifacts and outcomes you produced. The important part is to describe it honestly as simulation and Live PMO project work rather than claiming you were employed by the company in the scenario.
What if I don’t know which project to start with?
You do not need the perfect project. Start with one relevant area. Your PM Career Audit can also give you personalised guidance on which simulation direction makes sense for your background and goals.
How much time does this take?
This is designed for people who already have jobs, families and other responsibilities. You do not need to spend all day inside the PMO. A project runs 27 project days, and the goal is consistent focused reps, not racing through the system.
What is the PM Career Audit?
Personalised written feedback based on your background, resume and goals. It helps with PM positioning, a recommended simulation direction, and where to focus in your first 30 days. It is included with the membership.
Is a job guaranteed?
No. The Live PMO gives you a place to build project management repetitions, artifacts and project stories. It does not guarantee employment or interviews.
How much does it cost, and can I cancel?
$99 USD per month. Cancel anytime, and there is a 7-day money-back guarantee. There is no long-term contract.

Enter the Live PMO

Stop waiting for experience. Start building it.

  1. 01Enter the PMO and get oriented.
  2. 02Choose your starting direction.
  3. 03Begin one focused piece of work.
  4. 04Build from there.

You do not need somebody to give you the title before you can start building the capability. You need somewhere to practice. The Live PMO gives you the environment. You bring the reps.

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