In this core course you will learn an industry-proven approach to the high-challenge yet high-stakes, high-payoff undertaking of ensuring that the organization is investing in the right projects, giving those projects the right resources, and getting them completed at the right time. The course offers a complete, best-practices-based methodology for project selection, prioritization, and oversight-plus mentoring in how to resolve real-world implementation concerns.

Learn how to:

Establish effective governance over a project portfolio or multiple project portfolios

Evaluate the inherent value—and risk—of projects in the portfolio

Align projects with strategic objectives

Make trade-offs between several desirable opportunities when faced with insufficient resources to accomplish them all

Customize, implement, and institutionalize a portfolio management process that will work for your organization

Apply good sense in managing the day-to-day details of the portfolio

Reduce the negative impact of organizational politics

Integrate the portfolio management process with other business processes

Promote organization-wide consistency with regard to portfolio management objectives, processes, roles, and responsibilities

Effectively work with clients or customers to help them organize their project portfolios

Evaluate existing projects against new projects while managing a dynamic pipeline in which projects are constantly added, closed out, and rescoped

This was the best presentation of Portfolio Management concepts and processes that I have encountered to date. Excellent material and well presented. We are aggressively implementing this model via our Project Management Office.

Ron Kifer
Director of Project Management Office
California State Automobile Association

Effectively estimate resource capacity against resource demand

Better understand project interdependence

Effectively handle the requests of project and functional managers for more time, money, and resources

Promote organization-wide consistency with regard to portfolio management objectives, processes, roles, and responsibilities