The Accidental PM Survival Kit

You're the PM now.
Here's what you actually needed.

Battle-tested templates, workbooks, and frameworks for project managers in their first 30 days — or any 30 days that feel like the first 30.

Get the Survival Kit — $97

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The Accidental PM Survival Kit — Excel workbooks, Word templates, PowerPoint decks, and the 123-page guide
The moment you got handed a project with no warning

You know the moment.

Maybe it was a Monday morning. Maybe it was a 4 PM email. Your manager walks over, drops a project on your desk, and says some version of "you're the PM now." There was no warning. No training. No template library, no mentor, no transition period.

Just a deadline. And the slow-dawning realization that you have no idea what you're actually supposed to do.

Or maybe it wasn't that dramatic. Maybe you're 18 months into a project coordinator role and suddenly you're running stakeholder meetings, drafting status reports, and trying to figure out how a real RACI matrix is supposed to work.

Or maybe you've BEEN a PM for years — but this current project? Stakeholders from three departments. A budget you didn't approve. An executive sponsor who texts you on Sunday nights.

If any of that lands — keep reading.

This is for you if you're...

Six types of project managers this kit is built for

Every tool you'd build for yourself if you had a working weekend.

Plus the guide that walks you through using all of them.

The Command Center workbook

The Command Center

Stakeholders, risks, issues, decisions, RACI, comm log.

The Money Tracker workbook

The Money Tracker

Budget, spend, forecast, variance, vendor costs.

The Schedule Engine workbook

The Schedule Engine

Auto-generating Gantt, critical path, dependencies.

The Career Engine workbook

The Career Engine

Goals, skills, KPIs, PMP study tracker.

The Requirements Vault workbook

The Requirements Vault

Requirements register, traceability, MoSCoW, quality gates.

The Team Hub workbook

The Team Hub

RACI matrix, capacity, retros, action items, comm plan.

30 Word + 3 PowerPoint Templates

Every PM deliverable you'll get asked to produce.

Status emails. Project charters. Retrospectives. Change requests. Decision logs. Vendor meetings. Working agreements. Risk response playbooks. Plus three executive presentation decks for the moments where one bad slide ends careers.

Deadlines, Delusions & Deliverables guide book
123-Page Survival Guide

Deadlines, Delusions & Deliverables.

A 30-day survival guide for the Accidental PM. Not theory. Not certification prep. The actual moves — day by day — that take you from "what have I done?" to "I might survive this." Built from real federal and private-sector projects.

63-Prompt AI Intelligence Pack

Battle-tested prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot.

Communication. Meeting prep. Scheduling. Risk analysis. Excel formulas. Stakeholder management. Presentation drafting. Save hours per week — or use them to learn what good PM thinking sounds like.

Quick-Start Onboarding PDF

Day 1 isn't "where do I start?"

It's "this exact file, this exact page." The one-page onboarding map that tells you which file to open for which job, plus a page-reference index for the whole kit.

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Who Built This

The toolkit I wish someone had handed me on day one.

I'm Remaz Gaffar. I'm a PMP-, CSM-, and CSPO-certified Program Manager currently directing a $69.5 million federal IT acquisition program — 30+ contracts, 180+ staff, audit-grade everything.

Before that, I managed multi-million-dollar budgets across federal and private-sector projects. The kinds of projects that come with steering committees, ATO reviews, and the occasional 7 AM crisis call.

Along the way, I built tools. Excel workbooks with formulas that actually flag problems before they explode. Word templates for the deliverables I was tired of writing from scratch. Frameworks for the political conversations no certification prep course teaches you how to have.

I built them because I needed them. Every workbook in this kit has been used on real projects with real stakeholders. The formulas survived audits. The frameworks survived steering committees. The templates survived "make it shorter."

You can buy the workbooks individually. Or save $32 and get everything.

Individually on Etsy

  • The Command Center $17
  • The Money Tracker $17
  • The Schedule Engine $17
  • The Career Engine $17
  • The Requirements Vault $17
  • The Team Hub $17
  • PM Template Pack $27
Total $129

6 workbooks + 30 Word templates + 3 PowerPoint decks.

Best Value

The Full Kit (here)

  • Everything in the left column
  • + 123-page Survival Guide
  • + 63-prompt AI Intelligence Pack
  • + Quick-Start onboarding PDF
  • + Page reference map
Total $97

Save $32 — and the guide + AI pack are exclusive to this bundle. You cannot buy them separately.

Questions you should ask before buying anything.

Will these work in Google Sheets or on a Mac?

Excel for Mac is fully supported. Google Sheets imports the files but a few advanced features (conditional formatting, data validation) may need a minor adjustment after import. Microsoft 365 web works too.

Are the files locked or editable?

100% editable. No locked cells, no protected sheets, no watermarks. Adapt them to your project.

Do I get updates when you improve a template?

Yes, free. Improvements and new content get delivered to you automatically.

Can I use these on client work or inside my company?

Yes. The license covers unlimited personal and professional use within your own organization. You just can't resell or redistribute the files themselves.

I'm not technical. Is this going to be too much?

These were built for PMs, not Excel power users. If you can copy a row and replace text in brackets, you can use this kit. The Quick-Start PDF walks you through which file to open for which job.

What's the refund policy?

Due to the instant-download nature, refunds aren't standard for digital products. But if a file is broken or doesn't work as described, message me and I'll fix it within 24 hours.

Why $97? Why not $497 like the courses I see online?

Because this is a toolkit, not a course. There are no videos, no community, no monthly calls. It's the files and frameworks. Priced honestly for what it is.

How fast do I get it?

Instant. After checkout, you get a download link immediately. Most buyers are using the first workbook within 10 minutes.

Confident project manager with the kit ready to use

You're going to need these tools sooner or later.

Either you build them yourself over the next 18 months while learning the hard way — or you download them tonight and use them on Monday morning.

Three more years of experience. A working weekend. The cost of two lunches.

You get to choose which.

Get the Survival Kit — $97

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