Boost firm performance with our most popular training: AEC Project Management Bootcamp

For over 20 years, architecture and engineering firms seeking improved financial and project performance have sent key staff to AEC Project Management Bootcamp. The result? Stronger and more confident PMs, better and more profitable projects, and happier clients. Participate in-person or live online!

AEC Project Management Bootcamp's
Game-Changing Takeaways

Over 52,000 AEC Project Managers Have Learned How to:

Deliver Projects with Stronger Financial Results

Participants learn proven insight to build and manage AEC project plans that better protect fee, control scope, and proactively manage risk. Using real-world scenarios and practical insight from instructors who have decades of experience leading AEC project teams, leading to improved profitability, fewer write-offs, and more predictable project performance.

Communicate with Confidence and Authority

Participants acquire tools to run more effective client and internal conversations around setting expectations, negotiating scope changes, and resolving conflicts in ways that strengthen relationships rather than strain them.

Translate Strategy into Day-to-Day Action

Participants learn how to connect firm goals to project execution - aligning staffing, scheduling, and resource allocation so each project supports the company’s growth and operational priorities.

Lead High-Performing Project Teams

Participants develop practical leadership skills to motivate multidisciplinary teams, delegate effectively, hold people accountable, and create a culture of ownership around schedule, budget, and quality.

Standardize a Repeatable Approach to Project Success

Participants leave with proven frameworks, checklists, and workflows they can immediately apply - creating consistent project start-ups, better change management, and disciplined closeouts across the firm.

Adapt to the Evolving AEC Landscape

Master modern project management strategies, including remote collaboration, virtual client engagement, and adapting to shifting market demands.

New for 2026

We’ve carefully updated the AEC industry’s most popular PM training program to bring you the most current and rigorously tested AEC-specific guidance on project management. PSMJ’s AEC Project Management Bootcamp keeps the proven content trusted by 52,000+ AEC professionals since 1980, while adding more interactive and hands-on elements that today’s AEC Project Managers need to truly internalize and apply what they learn :

Tools and tactics specifically for smaller projects, including live development of a Project Management Plan that shows how small project plans can be created in less than an hour!
Hands on exercises and workshops using real-world projects to test drive your new skills before you leave the classroom, including a team-based scenario simulation that demonstrates the power of planning!
New ways to improve productivity when your team isn’t in the same office, state, or even country!
Insight on where, when, and how to flip scope creep from problem to profits, and become a superhero in your firm by turning project changes into new revenue!
Where the most successful PMs are using AI as a force multiplier
PLUS dozens of tools, templates, checklists, and much more!

More than teaching project management… this is DOING project management!

Only PSMJ’s AEC Project Management Bootcamp is packed with real-world examples along with exercises and workshops to make sure the learning “sticks.” Every module of the course includes experiential exercises, team workshops, and interactive discussions designed to turn knowledge into action. Just some of the interactive and engaging group exercises and workshops you will only find in AEC Project Management Bootcamp include:

• Converting vague client desires into measurable critical success factors
• Prioritizing and mitigating project risks
• Spotting problems in a project scope
• Building a Work Breakdown Structure
• Planning the resources needed for a project
• Building a project quality control plan
• Developing a program management plan
• Determining which project tasks to delegate to others
• Planning for project change
• Using earned value management to catch project performance problems while they can be corrected
• Getting a project out of trouble
• Developing a complete Project Management Plan for small projects in under 60 minutes

Benefits

No other project management training investment sets current and aspiring AEC Project Managers up for delivering stronger project performance than PSMJ’s AEC Project Management Bootcamp because it's the ONLY program that brings:

A proven track record of success.

52,396 (and counting) AEC Project Managers have attended AEC Project Management Bootcamp since its inception in 1980.

Real experience means real-world results.

Our instructors have an average of 23.7 years of actual real-world experience managing AEC projects and AEC Project Managers.

All the insight you need in one curated experience.

From client communications to scheduling and budgeting, we’re constantly ensuring that AEC Project Management Bootcamp is the most robust full stack program of its kind.

Exclusive tools and resources for success.

Only AEC Project Management gives you powerful tools, templates, and checklists to go from idea to action faster.

Don’t waste your firm's time and money on lesser imitators or so-called "institutes" with inexperienced instructors, ultra-basic and hypothetical content, and boring presentations. Trying to get truly sustained project management improvement from such inferior services will only leave you frustrated. Count on the AEC industry's premier training provider!

Interactive, Expert-Led Sessions

In just two days of in-person, or via six LIVE online sessions, AEC Project Management Bootcamp delivers the essential skills, strategies, and tools to ensure project success and client satisfaction.

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Don't Just Take Our Word for It

See what our graduates have to say

“Thanks so much! Loved the pacing and it was definitely a great and powerful experience. The amount of in-depth content covered makes it feel like you’ve covered a week’s worth of information in two short days.”

Hannah Bannister Kronberg Urbanist + Architects

“I took this bootcamp over 10 years ago and this one was by far more useful and interactive, I would highly recommend Michael to others, he made the training fun, informative and relevant.”

Donavan Rae, P.E., Lumos & Associates

“It was a very practical and well organized course and Alan was energetic, engaged, experienced and extremely knowledgeable about the material. Two thumbs up.”

Sam Brunswick, PAE Consulting Engineers

“I really enjoyed the course and I learned a lot that will help me do my job better.”

Hannah Bannister, Kronberg Urbanist + Architects

“The instructor was amazing! The best teacher I've ever had was my HS chemistry teacher, but our PM Bootcamp leader certainly rivaled him. His engaging manner kept the class very interesting and enjoyable!”

Erin Sherman, Project Manager, Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA)

“So many great nuggets of information that reinforced that I am ready to step into a PM role but also made me aware of some things I need to work on.”

Ken Turba, Project Architect, Plunkett Raysich Architects

“I've been to many training programs during my career and rank this as the best. It is hard to keep a group engaged for 13 hours over 2 days. The content was spot on and going through everyone's expectations at the outset was great. The instructor’s ability to structure the presentation to hit all those topics in more detail and skim over others, essentially on the fly, was brilliant."

Toby Harris, Project Manager III, Three Notch Group

“I wanted to send another thank you for an amazing PM Bootcamp in Chicago last week. As someone who is just dipping their feet into project managing, I feel incredibly equipped to handle whatever may come my way. In fact, I am already rolling out project change logs in my team!”

Rima Bauer, Senior Design Technician, V3 Companies

Just a few of the AEC firms that send PMs through PSMJ's AEC Project Management Bootcamp:

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Flexible Training Options

Accelerate your career with two days of immersive, in-person training or choose a LIVE online option with 6 hours over three days. Gain the skills, tools, and strategies to drive project success however you learn best.

Day 1: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Day 2: 8:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Breakfast, lunch, and refreshments included with registration

LIVE ONLINE AEC Project Management Bootcamp Option:

If you prefer the convenience of online training, now you can get ALL the priceless tips, tools, and techniques that have made AEC Project Management Bootcamp "THE must-attend experience" all without leaving your office! Our 12-hour interactive online training option is LIVE and conducted by the same AEC experts who deliver the in-person events. Delivered in six 2-hour blocks over 3 days (10 AM - 12 PM and 3 PM - 5 PM ET), AEC Project Management Bootcamp Online Master Class is the perfect career-boosting learning event.

Choose one of our upcoming LIVE ONLINE options, each one presented on a Tuesday-Thursday cadence:
March 24 - 26, 2026 • April 28 - 30, 2026 • May 19 - 21, 2026 • June 23 - 25, 2026 • July 21 - 23, 2026 • August 4 - 6, 2026 • September 1 - 3, 2026
Plus many more. See all our LIVE ONLINE options at checkout.

GUARANTEE

This training program is focused on helping you become an even more valuable member of your firm by explaining profit-boosting techniques used by the most successful AEC project managers. We're confident this course WILL help you – as it has thousands of others. If this program or the skills and tools you acquire don't have a positive impact on that goal, we will refund your fee or arrange for you to attend another PSMJ program at no cost. You take no risk!

Professional Development Credits

AIA Continuing Ed Logo AEC Project Management Bootcamp is AIA CES-registered to provide this content. This Bootcamp earns you up to 13 LU Hours, CEUs, or PDHs. Not all state and licensing boards accept these programs for learning units. For more information, please contact our education team at (617) 965-0055 or education@psmj.com.

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