Course Outline
Pre-Requisites
Project Management Fundamentals IT Project Management Course
Lessons
COURSE OVERVIEW
In this course, you will learn what it takes to maximize the number and strategic value of the projects that your organization completes. This course is designed for anyone involved in the development and execution of organizational strategy.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- Differentiate project portfolio management from other management disciplines
- Relate projects to an organization's strategic objectives
- Explain what is involved in project prioritization in large, complex organizations
- Develop and apply a project prioritization model that incorporates the many and varied aspects of project value
- Prioritize projects on the basis of their strategic value
- Schedule projects on the basis of strategic priorities so as to maximize the benefits derived from an organization's ability to complete projects
- Maximize the volume of projects that can be completed by developing defensive capacity of non-limiting resources
- Maximize the value of projects that are completed by ensuring the right projects are being completed in the right order
- Simplify the portfolio management process by focusing management attention on the bottlenecks to project completion
- Relate portfolio management success to the contribution made by the Project Management Office
OUTLINE
Classroom Live Outline
1. Portfolio Management Foundations
- Organizational Project Management
- Portfolio Management and Organizational Strategy
- Roles and Responsibilities of a Portfolio Manager
- PMI View of Portfolio Management
2. Project Success and Portfolio Management
- Role of Portfolio Management in Project Success
- Effective Portfolio Management
3. Executive Involvement in Portfolio Management
- Executive Involvement
- Capacity Management
4. Strategic Alignment
- Value Considerations
- Project Prioritization
5. Considerations Other than Strategic Alignment
6. Metrics
7. Project Portfolio Management Complications
8. Role of the Project Management Office
Hands-on Exercises:
- Terminology
- Efficiency of Multitasking
- Strategic Priorities and Conflicts
- Limiting Resources
- Organizational Constraints
- Strategic Assets
- Conduct a Strategic Evaluation
- Develop a Preliminary Prioritization Model
- Improve a Project Valuation Model
- Perform a Project Analysis
- Prioritize Projects
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Senior executives responsible for organizational strategy
- Managers responsible for developing organizational strategy or for making strategic recommendations
- Portfolio managers, project managers, and program managers
- Members of portfolio, program, or project offices
- Operational managers who are impacted or impact portfolios
- Project team members, customers, and other stakeholders of the portfolio management process
PDUS
This course qualifies you for the following PMI® Professional Development Units (PDUs):
- Leadership = 6
- Strategic and Business Management = 5
- Technical Project Management = 10
Total = 21
Cancellation Policy
We require 16 calendar days notice to reschedule or cancel any registration. Failure to provide the required notification will result in 100% charge of the course. If a student does not attend a scheduled course without prior notification it will result in full forfeiture of the funds and no reschedule will be allowed. Within the required notification period, only student substitutions will be permitted. Reschedules are permitted at anytime with 16 or more calendar days notice. Enrollments must be rescheduled within six months of the cancel date or funds on account will be forfeited.
Training Location
Online Classroom
your office
your city,
your province
your country
I would never take another course that starts at 11AM and goes to 9PM again. The way the course was laid out really took away from the capturing of what was presented as it was 5-6 hours of watching a screen before getting to the actual labs. There has to be a better way to lay out this particular course. In my previous course, the lectures were broken up by labs which worked out fantastic and kept you engaged in the course. There were days when in order to actually complete the labs, would go over the 9PM day end time frame. Was able to get the primary labs done, but if you want to get all the content completed, you cannot complete it in the window of this course, you will need to come back on your own time.