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Pros & cons... In my opinion there are more cons than pros to this company.
It's difficult to know exactly where to start as I want to ensure I give an honest and fair review. I don't usually review these types of things but I have had some mild frustrations so far. So I enrolled into doing 4 courses in July 2023 which include Prince 2 Project Management Foundation and practitioner, and also I enrolled into Agile Foundation and APM. For context I am a self-employed business owner who scales companies and I was looking to learn more about project management so I could potentially look at inserting them into the businesses I work with, as well as that I also was looking to do it as a potential fallback just in case things didn't work out in business for whatever reason. So to start with I spoke via phone to enquire into project management. At first I was looking to just learn about PMP but the representative convinced me that the 4 courses I ended up enrolling in were the way to go. If Im honest I have grown to have some frustrations over my conversations with the representative because when we spoke I was curious how easy it would be to apply the project management courses I learn into a business I insert myself into, he said it would transition over easily. I feel this was a distortion of the truth just to get the sale, because after completing my practitioner and foundation Prince 2 and since moving onto agile I really do not see how it is possible to take the concepts and apply them to a business unless that business has a full team that has a full understanding of these project management methods and how to use them. After completing two courses and working on the third currently I do not see in any way shape or form how it is possible to apply this knowledge into a business without the above requirements. Having worked with multiple businesses I haven't yet come across one that has actually used these methods. Therefore I feel like a lot of time and money has been wasted based on this one distortion of reality and I now find myself completing the courses simply because I paid for them, rather because I want to do them or because I think they will help me. My second frustration has come from the fact that I asked on average how long the courses would take. Before moving onto this point I want to make clear that I am well aware that we all have our different learning paces and the length of time it takes us to digest information will differ. After my conversation with Sam, I was of the opinion that finishing the courses within the year I have would be fairly straightforward given I have the time to put into them (which I of course made sure I did have the time before deciding whether to undertake it or not) After 8 months I now have half of the courses left and Im not certain I will be able to complete them all within the given time frame. I think I was told that foundation on average takes 20 hours to complete and practitioner 40 hours to complete, after adding up the time I spent on these courses I found that to pass these I spent upwards of 200 hours altogether on the courses, a significant amount more than the time specified. Now again, Im aware we all learn at different paces but after being in a WhatsApp group with other students like myself it seems that I'm not alone. It turns out there are many students that have found the courses overwhelming and taking significantly more time than was specified when they spoke to the course consultants... So this leads me to the (invalidated) opinion that learning people know exactly what they are doing. Because you have a year in total to finish all the courses I feel they may do this on purpose so that at the end of the year you have to purchase extra time to complete them in order to squeeze out more money from their customers. Although I do have to be clear this is merely an observation rather than fact, so do take this with a pinch of salt. I'm just going based on the data I have accumulated from mine and other people's experiences. So overall the course has been rather frustrating. But another downfall is I feel the courses aren't up to scratch either. They happen to be very robotic and difficult to learn from, each course has a variety of avatars that are there to teach you, but a lot of it is an overwhelm of information rather than chunking down processable information. In addition to this the activities have no huge benefit to them. For example in Agile I'm finding that if you get a question wrong it just tells you that you are wrong, it doesn't say why, which in my opinion is ridiculous when you are trying to learn. I do have to say though the course does have some pros too, such as... Career advice is a nice touch The live calls are very useful But overall in summary, if you are set on a career in PM it could be a good course for you... otherwise be sure to do your due diligence. Hopefully this is useful.