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201 - Program & Portfolio Management

Master the Skills to Manage Multiple Projects & Large Programs

Earn 60 PDUs working at your pace when it fits your schedule

$1,500

Master all the skills you need for conceiving, planning and controlling larger programs and portfolios of projects. Learn a scalable methodology to teach your project managers which they can consistently apply to all projects. Add new techniques for communicating and building consensus and support among organizational or client executives.

Learn to Install best practices for controlling the initiation of projects, setting the right priorities and allocating resources correctly. Learn to operate a central control and tracking operation to spot and solve problems early.

Individual, Personal Instruction
Tailored to You & Your Schedule

Personal 1-to-1 training at your pace and when it fits your schedule. Work with an expert instructor who guides you through 6 hands-on assignments including live, role-playing presentations and negotiations with executives. As well, take over and fine-tune a portfolio of projects & programs. Lectures you can watch whenever it fits your schedule and an electronic textbook that is searchable and printable. Approved for 60 PDUs by PMI®

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Master Advanced Techniques for Large Programs and Portfolios of Projects
  • Deploy a project methodology
  • Manage multiple stakeholders
  • Design programs
  • Develop & manage project managers
  • Estimate hours and dollars
  • Manage & mitigate risks
  • Build high performance cultures
  • Cope with difficult executives
  • Trade-offs
  • Tracking
  • Earned value
  • Portfolio management

Course Facts

  • Level: Executive
  • Cost : $1,500
  • Hours of work: 60
  • PDUs: 60 approved by PMI
  • Course Syllabus
  • Career advisor 800-942-4323
  • No Time Limits
  • No Fixed schedule
$1500

Course Enrollment

  

Enroll by phone 800-942-4323
 
Satisfaction Guarantee If you are not satisfied with your course materials, you can return them for a full refund. The refund period expires 30 days after you enroll or when you return your signed license agreement.
 

Modules

Learning Objective

Assignment & Feedback

Strategic Positioning and User/Client Multi-project Account Management

Use strategic planning techniques for working with the user/client to develop the project to meet their business objectives, then establish effective scope change controls. Analyze your strategic position with the user/client account and identify tactics and techniques to improve that position.

 

In two case studies, interpret the overall business situation in which a project will take place, then transform that analysis into a high-level project and portfolio design. Submit it to your instructor for coaching and feedback.

Requirements and Charter  

Define the project Measure of Success, the supporting achievement network and authority and accountability structures for matrix management.

 

Submit your achievement network and accountability map to your instructor who will give feedback as "the boss."

Work Estimating and Risk Assessment

Master the use of three techniques for accurate work estimating and building strong team member commitment to the plan. Use the work estimating data to assess the risk of individual tasks and the total project.

Draft a work schedule using three estimating techniques, then perform a risk assessment and get coaching and feedback from your PM instructor.

High Performance Project Teams

Learn to assess project team members' capabilities and craft assignments appropriate for each. Design non-monetary performance incentives for your team members.

 

Using a case study, design appropriate team assignments, incentives and your leadership style. Submit them to your PM instructor for feedback.

Fine-tuning and Modeling Alternatives

Use project software to model alternative project plans and quantify the trade-offs between duration, budget, risk levels and business achievements from the project.

 

In two case studies, fine-tune the plan, develop three alternative plans and present them to your "user/client."

Advanced Tracking Techniques and Solution Modeling

Utilize variance and earned value techniques to quantify performance problems and model alternative solutions, including resource allocations across a portfolio of projects.

Analyze variance and earned value to identify problems in 3 projects. Model solutions, reallocate resources and present them to "the boss."

Portfolio Management

Design and implement an enterprise PM protocol for your project-based organization.

 

Submit your proposal for creating an enterprise PM protocol and get coaching.

You'll learn techniques to unearth the client buying structure and their business needs. Then you'll learn to conceive, plan and gain strategic approval of the project. You'll learn how to make accurate work estimates, quantify project risk for executives so they can make strategic choices on tradeoffs and develop high-performance team cultures. You'll also learn to use PM software to develop dynamic simulation models of your projects for effective presentations and "what if" sessions with the client.