Outline of Project Portfolio Management Training 1. Introduction
- Session Overview
- Personal Introductions
2. What Is?... (Portfolio Management Definitions and Concepts)
- Defining “Mission”, “Strategy”, and “Portfolios”
- What's More Important: Managing Supply or Managing Demand?
- Relating Projects, Programs, Portfolios, and Project Management Offices (PMOs)
- Setting and Achieving Project Goals: Project Cost versus Project “Throughput”
3. Linking Portfolios and Organizational Goals
- High-Level Strategic Planning and Organizational Goals
- Analyzing Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT)
- From Organizational Strategy to Portfolio Guidance
- Case Study Exercise: Creating a Organizational Strategy
4. Defining the Portfolio
- Do We Need a Portfolio?
- Mapping Current Projects to Strategy
- Who Defines the Portfolio?
- Portfolio Frameworks
- Case Study Exercise: Creating a Portfolio Strategic Plan
5. Aligning the Portfolio
- What's the “Ideal” Project Look Like?
- Project Portfolio Selection Criteria and Models
- Accounting for Project and Organizational Risk
- Case Study Exercise: Project Portfolio Selection
6. Implementing the Portfolio
- Supporting the Portfolio in the Organization
- Project Management Office (PMO) Portfolio Support
- An Eight-Level Project Management Office (PMO) Maturity Model
- Case Study Exercise: PMO Portfolio Support
7. Controlling the Portfolio
- Putting Portfolio Management – and Measurement – in Place
- The “Best” Portfolio Metrics
- Case Study Exercise: Writing a Portfolio Implementation Plan
8. Seminar Wrapup and References
