Live workshopProject Management training for teams
Project Management Fundamentals
- Built around your actual work
- Live online, or on-site by request
- Training careers nationwide since 2006
Workshop brief
Project Management Fundamentals
- Duration
- 1 Day (8 hrs; two 4-hr sessions)
- Tuition
- $495.00per participant; team and private pricing by quote
- Delivery
- Live onlineOn-site, in person, by request
- Included
- Certificate of completionFor every participant
Someone has to own the date. Usually nobody does.
Most organizations run projects without project managers. Work with a deadline gets handed to whoever is closest, alongside their actual job, with no method and no authority. It often works, right up until it does not, and the failure is almost never technical.
This workshop is for those people. Not certification, not a methodology to adopt across the organization, but the practical structure that separates a project that lands from one that quietly slips: a scope you can defend, a plan that shows what depends on what, and one person who owns each thing.
Operations and department leaders use this where initiatives keep slipping and nobody can point to when it went wrong. HR and learning and development leaders use it for managers who inherit projects without ever being taught to run one. Two deeper areas have their own workshops: stakeholders and communication in Improving Project Communications and Stakeholder Management, and risk in Increasing Performance Through Project Risk Management.
Content, scenarios, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery. Most groups train live online, and on-site in-person delivery is available by request. This workshop is available by request only, with a three participant minimum, and sits alongside our other leadership development workshops.
Why teams book DWC
- Content, datasets, and examples built around your work before delivery
- Live online with a real instructor, or on-site at your location
- Invoicing and purchase order documentation for your organization
What your team gets
This course includes
- Live, instructor led workshop delivered in two 4-hour sessions
- Planning work done on a real project from your organization
- Frameworks for scope, dependencies, estimation, and accountability
- A status conversation structure built to surface problems early
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Course outline
How the workshop runs
Every session is live with a real instructor, and the exercises are built around your team's work.
The day opens with scope, because most project failures were decided here. Participants practice defining what the project will and will not deliver, in writing, before anything starts, and learn to recognize the request that sounds small and is not. They work on the conversation where you make a sponsor choose rather than absorbing an expanding scope silently.
The middle is planning and accountability. Participants build a plan that shows dependencies rather than a list of tasks in date order, learn why their estimates are optimistic and by how much, and identify the critical path so they know which slip matters. They practice assigning ownership specifically enough that it is clear who is answerable, which is where most projects quietly fail.
The last stretch is running it. Participants practice a status conversation designed to surface bad news rather than confirm the plan, handling the change request that arrives at week six, and closing a project deliberately instead of letting it trail off. Every exercise uses a real project from the room.
Outcomes
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Define scope tightly enough to defend when it is challenged
- Recognize the request that sounds small and is not
- Build a plan that shows dependencies, not just dates
- Estimate realistically and identify which slips actually matter
- Assign accountability specifically enough that ownership is clear
- Run a status conversation that surfaces bad news early
- Handle a mid-project change request and close a project deliberately
Duration
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop. It is designed for managers, supervisors, and team leads who run projects alongside other responsibilities. It does not lead to a project management certification. Teams pursuing formal credentials should look at our Project Management Certificate.
Format
Online for most groups; on-site delivery by request.
Dates and options
Join a public session or book your teamBook this workshop for your team
Public sessions
Train your team privately
Schedule this workshop for your team, live online or on-site, with content built around your work. Tell us your group size, goals, and target dates.
How team training works
From first call to trained team
- 20,000+Participants trained
- 90%Completion rate
- 1,500+Organizations served
Scope it
A short call about your team, your tools, and what needs to change after the session.
Customize it
Your instructor builds examples, exercises, and datasets around your actual work before delivery.
Deliver it live
Live online for most groups, or on-site at your location, scheduled around your team.
Make it stick
Every participant leaves with reference materials and a certificate of completion.
Pricing
Tuition and ways to buy
$495.00 per participant
Project Management Fundamentals is available by request only, scheduled around your team.
- $495 per participant, with a three participant minimum
- Private training: request a custom quote. One on one sessions and teams below the three participant minimum are priced case by case
- Larger groups: request a custom quote. We price larger cohorts case by case based on group size, schedule, and delivery format
Colorado state agencies, higher education institutions, cities, counties, school districts, and certified nonprofits may purchase this course directly through our State of Colorado Price Agreement. Request a quote and we will build pricing around your team.
- Per participant
Enroll a few employees at the per-participant rate.
- Private team session
Your group only, built around your data, tools, and schedule.
- Invoice your organization
DWC invoices your company directly and provides purchase order documentation.
- Multi-workshop programs
Combine workshops into a series for a department or a cohort of new managers.
Project Management training
Project management training for teams
Projects run on more than a schedule. DWC project management workshops teach the tools teams run work in, including Jira and monday.com fundamentals and advanced Jira workflows, automation, and reporting, alongside project fundamentals, stakeholder communication, and risk management.
For a full credential, the Project Management Certificate is a live online program taught by a PMI Authorized Training Partner.
Can you customize this workshop for our team?
Yes. Content, datasets, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery, so participants practice on the files, tools, and situations they deal with every day.
Is the training online or on-site?
Most groups train live online with a real instructor. On-site, in-person delivery is available by request.
Is there a minimum group size?
Most workshops booked for a team have a three participant minimum, and the Tuition section on each workshop page lists its exact terms. One-on-one sessions and smaller groups are priced case by case, and larger groups are quoted based on group size, schedule, and delivery format.
Are these workshops only for project managers?
No. The tool workshops are built for everyone who works in Jira or monday.com, and the fundamentals workshop suits anyone who runs projects without the title.
Do you also offer a full project management certificate?
Yes. The Project Management Certificate is a live online program taught by a PMI Authorized Training Partner.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Every participant receives a certificate of completion, along with digital learning materials and take-home reference guides.
Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. DWC invoices your organization directly and provides purchase order documentation.
Can individual employees join a public session?
When a workshop has public dates, they appear in the Dates section of this page with a registration button. If none are listed, request a quote and we will share your options.
Bring this workshop to your team
Tell us about your group and your goals. A training advisor follows up within one business day with options and pricing.