In-house course
Project Management Fundamentals — in-house training for Malaysian teams
Two or three days, delivered at your office, built around the projects your team is actually running.
- Duration
- 2–3 days
- 14–21 hours
- Delivered
- At your premises
- Malaysia-wide
- Cost
- RM10,000–RM24,000
- Priced per training day
What your team will be able to do
- Turn a vague request from a stakeholder into a scoped piece of work with a defined finish line
- Estimate time and cost in a way that survives contact with a sponsor who wants it faster
- Build a schedule that shows what actually drives the end date, not a list of tasks
- Identify the risks that matter early enough to do something about them
- Run a status conversation that surfaces bad news while it is still cheap
- Manage a stakeholder who keeps changing their mind, without absorbing every change silently
- Close a project properly so the next one starts better
- Use one shared vocabulary across the team, so handovers stop losing information
Who it is for
- · Teams where several people run projects part-time alongside another job
- · Newly promoted managers who inherited projects with the title
- · Engineering, IT, operations, marketing and finance teams running internal delivery
- · Companies that want everyone working the same way, rather than one trained individual
- · Employers with an HRD Corp levy balance they need to put to work
When something else fits better
- · Anyone who needs the PMP® credential itself — ask us and we will arrange a five-day certification course separately
- · Teams looking for deep Agile or Scrum certification specifically
- · Individuals wanting to attend alone — this is delivered to a team
About this course
Most people who end up running projects in Malaysian companies were never trained to. They were good engineers, good analysts, good account managers — and the reward for being good was a project. The gap that follows is not a knowledge gap about methodology. It is that nobody ever showed them how to scope work that has not been defined yet, estimate it honestly, and say no to a stakeholder without damaging the relationship.
This course is built for exactly that person, and it is delivered to your team together rather than to individuals sent away one at a time. That matters more than it sounds: when a whole team learns one way of scoping, estimating and reporting, the vocabulary sticks because everyone in the room has to keep using it on Monday. When one person attends a public course alone, it does not.
It is built for how your team works day to day. If some of your people also need a formal credential such as PMP® or CAPM®, we can arrange that alongside it.
Cost and funding
What it costs, and who pays for it
In-house training is priced per training day, not per person — so the cost per head falls as the group grows. If your company pays the HRD Corp levy, this is normally claimable.
The levy ledger
What your company already contributes, what this costs, and what is at risk if nobody claims.
Your monthly levy
RM3,000
1% of monthly wages — compulsory
This training would cost
RM15,000–RM24,000
About RM750–RM1,200 per person at 20 people
At risk of forfeiture
RM62,000
Two years of contributions above the RM10,000 floor, if no claim is made
At your contribution rate, this training costs roughly 8.0 months of levy — money already leaving the payroll every month whether it is used or not.
Send it to whoever signs
The numbers above, written as an email. Edit it, then forward it.
An estimate, not advice. Levy rates and the forfeiture rule are HRD Corp’s, read 10 September 2026; your actual balance depends on your claim history and on the statutory definition of wages. Confirm your position with HRD Corp.
Course outline
Indicative. The final agenda is built from your team’s own projects during scoping — which is the point of running it in-house rather than sending people to a fixed public course.
01Day 1 — Scoping work that has not been defined yet
- · What separates a project from ongoing operational work, and why the distinction changes how you manage it
- · Getting from "can you look into this" to a scope someone will sign
- · Writing a finish line that cannot be argued with later
- · Identifying who actually decides, as opposed to who attends the meetings
- · The assumptions register, and why writing assumptions down is the cheapest insurance in project work
02Day 1 — Estimating honestly
- · Why estimates are wrong in a predictable direction, and how to correct for it
- · Breaking work down far enough to estimate it, and knowing when to stop
- · Estimating effort and duration separately — the confusion that ruins schedules
- · Building contingency you can defend rather than padding you have to hide
- · Presenting an estimate to a sponsor who wants a smaller number
03Day 2 — Scheduling and the critical path
- · Sequencing work so the schedule shows what actually drives the end date
- · Dependencies, and how to spot the ones nobody declared
- · Resource reality — the difference between a plan and a plan your people can staff
- · What to do when the date is fixed before the work is understood
- · Keeping a schedule alive after week three, when most schedules quietly die
04Day 2 — Risk, in the form a team will actually use
- · Finding risks while they are still cheap, rather than documenting them after they land
- · Rating risk by likelihood and impact without turning it into a spreadsheet ritual
- · Choosing a response: avoid, reduce, transfer, accept — and who owns each one
- · Issues versus risks, and why teams that confuse the two are always late
- · A risk review that takes fifteen minutes and is worth having
05Day 2/3 — Stakeholders, reporting and change
- · Mapping stakeholders by influence and interest, and what to do differently for each
- · Running a status update that surfaces problems instead of hiding them
- · Handling scope change: the conversation, the record, and the trade
- · Escalating without damaging the relationship
- · Reporting to a sponsor who reads one slide
06Day 3 — Applying it to your own projects
- · Working sessions on the real projects your team is running now
- · Building a one-page plan for a live project, reviewed in the room
- · Agreeing the team standard: what gets documented, by whom, and how often
- · Closing and lessons learned — capturing them while people still remember
- · A thirty-day action plan each participant leaves with
Format and delivery
| Detail | |
|---|---|
| Duration | 2–3 days |
| Contact hours | 14–21 hours |
| Group size | 15–25 works best; larger teams run as batches |
| Location | Your premises, anywhere in Malaysia |
| Format | In person. Online delivery possible where a team is split |
| Pricing | RM5,000–RM8,000 per training day |
| Funding | Normally HRD Corp claimable where provider and course are registered |
| Certification | Certificate of attendance. PMP® or CAPM® can be arranged separately |
Questions
›Does this qualify our team for the PMP® exam?
Not on its own. PMI requires 35 contact hours of project management education to sit the PMP® exam; a three-day course delivers 21 hours and a two-day course around 14.
If the PMP® credential is what your company needs, we can arrange a five-day course with an accredited provider — for the people who need it, alongside or instead of this course.
›Is this HRD Corp claimable?
In-house training of this kind is normally claimable under the HRD Corp Claimable Courses (SBL-KHAS) scheme, provided the training provider and the specific course are registered with HRD Corp and the employer applies for the grant before the training takes place.
The sequence matters more than most employers expect: the grant application goes in first, and it is approved against a specific course, provider, date and participant list. We confirm the current registration status for your specific dates as part of scoping, before you commit to anything.
›How many people can attend?
A working group of 15 to 25 works best, because the exercises are done on your own projects and everyone needs to participate.
Larger groups are handled as multiple batches rather than one oversized room. An 80-person department, for example, is normally run as three batches — which also spreads the delivery across the calendar so you are not standing an entire team down at once.
›What does it cost?
In-house training in Malaysia is priced per training day, not per participant, which is what makes it cheaper per head than sending people to public courses. The typical range is RM5,000 to RM8,000 per day depending on trainer seniority and how much customisation is involved.
We publish the full cost breakdown, including cost per head at different team sizes, because nobody else in this market does. See the in-house training cost guide.
›Where is it delivered?
At your premises, anywhere in Malaysia. Klang Valley, Penang, Johor, Sarawak and Sabah are all routine.
Delivery at an external venue or online is also possible, though for this course the in-person format works materially better because most of day three is your team working on your own projects together.
Get a scoped quote
Tell us your team size, timeframe and whether you pay the HRD Corp levy. Within one working day you get a day rate, a suggested course shape and how to claim it through HRD Corp.