Course description
Project Portfolio Management
Project Portfolio management is lagging behind its operational cousins of product and stocks portfolios in several key areas.
- Availability and reliability of accurate data,
- Intelligent data analysis to produce reliable knowledge to be incorporated into
- Performance reports,
- Representation of those performance reports in 4 dimensions
- Real time and Same time access to those reports
- Tracking of the effectiveness of any changes and corrective actions
This short course will provide an overview of the history of the Knowledge, Skills, Tools and Techniques used in Project Portfolio Management. It will then delve into these 5 areas in particular to see how we can improve the discipline. Finally we will look for opportunities to improve our current approach in our organizations and develop actions plans to take away from the course.
The attendees will also get to play a Project Portfolio board game that is designed to allow them to create , change and track the various returns, investments and challenges with a 12 project portfolio. The game is designed to illustrate the many challenges with Project Portfolio Management in a fun and interactive manner. The individual exercises are designed to illustrate and promote dialogue around the 5 lagging areas mentioned above.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Portfolio. Program and Project managers and all people associated with initiatives to change an organization.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
At the end of this program, you will be able to:
- Understand and articulate the interplay between Portfolio, Programs and Projects
- Map the links between the Organizational Strategy and the Project Portfolio
- Assess the current health of your Project Portfolio
- Use the checklist to identify target projects for treatment within the Portfolio
- Create a balanced Project Portfolio