What Project Portfolio Management Can Do for Your Business

    

Summary:
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) sustains your organization's business strategy by ensuring that you fund the right projects at the right time. When it works well, only the highest value projects are funded, you know the health of every project, you have control over the entire portfolio and you know how much Business Value each project will generate. This 1-day course explains the benefits that you can expect from an effective PPM process, and presents steps you can take to obtain those benefits. Attendees assess their current PPM procedures and governance and compare them with current best practice.

Duration:
1 Day/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is designed for CEO, CFO, COO, CIO, other Senior Executives who establish and execute Business Strategy; PMO Directors, Functional Managers and Executives with project responsibility; Portfolio Managers and anyone who uses projects to execute Business Strategy; anyone who is planning on implementing portfolio management software.

Topics:

• Why project success is not enough
• The promise of PPM
• The PPM process
• Role of formal project management in PPM
• Steps for improving PPM
• Making every project visible
• Getting the right projects funded at the right time
• Keeping the portfolio aligned with Strategic Goals
• Improving project success rate
• Giving management the information they need to manage the enterprise
• Managing portfolio risk
• Managing change in PPM
• Reporting on portfolio results
• Creating a portfolio that is a Business Value delivery machine

Prerequisites:
This course does not require any prior project training or special knowledge of project management concepts; although a basic understanding is helpful for some of the exercises.

Last Update: May 23, 2012