Content

Overview

• Portfolios, programmess and projects
• The enterprise project management framework
• Business and project success
• Costs, benefits and issues of implementing Project Portfolio Management (PPM)
• Identify the challenges of PPM in organizations

Creating the 'Right' Environment for Project Portfolio Management

• Describe the key role of leadership in Project Portfolio Planning and Management (PPPM)
• Define project governance
• List the key structures associated with governance in PPPM
• Key stakeholder roles and responsibilities
• The role of the strategic enterprise project management office
• Defining the Portfolio Management Process

Linking the Portfolio to the Business Strategy

• Business strategy and project portfolio management
• Using a business case to iterate and refine project and portfolio scope
• Portfolio management and ongoing business operations
• Project selection based upon business drivers and strategy

Balancing and Optimising the Portfolio

• A balanced enterprise-level project portfolio
• Numeric and nonnumeric approaches to portfolio project selection and scoring
• Techniques for deriving the weights and scores used within the selection and scoring process
• Analyzing portfolio contents within the constraints of the business

Executing Project Portfolio Management

• A balanced enterprise-level project portfolio
• Numeric and nonnumeric approaches to portfolio project selection and scoring
• Techniques for deriving the weights and scores used within the selection and scoring process
• Analyzing portfolio contents within the constraints of the business
• Use of Enterprise PPM Tools

Monitoring Portfolio Performance

• Identify quantitative and qualitative metrics used to monitor performance
• Describe methods of gathering needed data
• Identify and describe various tools for portfolio projects
• Explain the usage of dashboards