Project Portfolio Management

Global Knowledge Canada
Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Canada

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' This course teaches you how to take a bird’s-eye view of all projects within your organization or division. With a portfolio perspective, you can improve resource utilization and planning and make appropriate decisions about adding new projects and continuing current ones. Learn to establish a methodology to evaluate, select, and prioritize projects. Develop skills to monitor resource utilization, cost, and project progress across the portfolio. The tools and techniques practiced in the class will help you select the right projects and ensure their success by establishing a portfolio that is aligned with corporate strategies and return-on-investment goals.

Students pursuing college credit recommendation or continuing education units must attend at least 90% of class time, participate in class exercises and section-knowledge checks, and score at least 70% on an end of-class, multiple-choice assessment.

What You’ll Learn


Understand why projects fail or succeed
Establish a methodology for evaluating, selecting, and prioritizing projects
Identify potential projects and determine their value
Select appropriate projects to support organizational strategy
Prioritize projects
Use advanced techniques to track multiple-project progress
Manage the enterprise resource pool
Analyze the portfolio and learn how to increase its effectiveness
Hands-on Exercises
Assess the project portfolio of your organization
Choose a scenario and review organizational objectives
Create a charter for the PPM team
Design the structure of the PPM team
Perform a stakeholder analysis
Develop a business process cycle
Identify and categorize potential projects
Evaluate potential projects
Select the projects for your portfolio
Prioritize the projects in your portfolio
Reprioritize the projects using prioritizing techniques
Create a governance body and reporting criteria
Compile portfolio cost and schedule data
Prepare a periodic portfolio review report
Identify and manage the project risks in your portfolio
Monitor for changes to the portfolio
Course Outline


1. Ensure Project Success
Why projects fail
Why projects succeed
Organizational challenges of managing multiple projects
2. Project Portfolio Management
Introduction to portfolio management
The challenges of project portfolio management
Roles and responsibilities for the portfolio
Organizational change management to adopt portfolio management
3. Portfolio Management Strategy
How to identify and select the right projects
How projects support your organizational strategy
Identify resource and budget constraints
Project identification methods
4. Project Selection
Project selection criteria
Project selection methods
5. Project Prioritization
Project prioritization criteria
Project prioritization methods
6. Best Practices for PPM
Consistent approach
Risk analysis
Strategic planning
Balanced portfolio
...''

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

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Global Knowledge - Canada
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Suite 200
Kanata, ON K2K 3B8 Canada



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