The template is the deliverable

The claim that reframes the whole course. What a template packages — project type, plan structure, planning RBS, plan types, task structure, team roles, classifications, billing defaults — and what that means for a project manager: with a good template, creating a project is pick, name, set dates, go. Without one it is a forty-field form and forty chances to get it wrong. Templates should be designed first and built last: designed first because the design tells you what configuration you need, built last because they can only assemble what exists. The quality test is two minutes and no questions.