When your Executives need high quality project portfolio decision support analytics and data visualisations how will you respond?
Whether you work in a PMO or manage a project portfolio this course equips you with the essential knowledge and practical tools that you need to succeed in the practice of Project Portfolio Management (PPM). The course materials were designed fortaught aspart of the syllabus of the Masters of Business in IT Management (MBITM) Program at the University of Technology, Sydney.
This course can save you many tens of thousands of dollars in consulting and tuition fees! In addition to nearly 5 hours of video lecture presentations it provides practical demonstrations of "how to do it" using analytical and visualisation tools, models and templates which have been developed and proven in practice over many years.
Practical: Students will be provided with helpful and easy to use FREE templates and tools that they can take away with them and start using immediately.
The course is self-paced but should take about 10 hours to complete. It consists of 8 sections:
Welcome and Overview
Introduction to Project Portfolio Management
Frameworks, Models, Cycles and Standards including the Global Management Standards and Scaled Agile Frameworks
Portfolio Intelligence: Data Analytics and Visualisation
Portfolio Governance
Commercial Portfolio Management Products
Project Portfolio Management Toolkits, and
An educational game.
You should take this course if you:
Sponsor, manage or participate in projects
Manage or perform a PMO function
Are an Executive or Manager at an organisation that undertakes a lot of projects
Want to improve your career opportunities in project management.
In today's global knowledge economy businesses need to differentiate themselves by constantly investing in and developing new and innovative products and services. It is more critical than ever that business and IT leaders collaborate to optimize the value of their organisation's human resources, digital and other assets by making prudent project investment decisions. PPM is the set of management disciplines through which this alignment is achieved.
