Program Management: Successfully Managing a Group of Related Projects

International Institute for Learning, Inc.
Austin, New York, Sacramento, Tallahassee, United States

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

Course Description:

'' This practical course gives you a performance edge by teaching you how to set up, initiate, plan, control and manage a program and associated project managers more effectively.

Programs are set up and initiated to meet key corporate goals and objectives and deliver benefits and consist of component projects. Program management provides the structure and governance necessary to manage these constituent projects more efficiently. It allows decision making at an appropriate level that leverages the best and most optimized benefit delivery mechanism from the constituent projects, otherwise not possible if these projects were managed individually.

Program managers coordinate the efforts of marketing groups, project teams, product delivery, support, operations and people from other functional groups, including multiple suppliers, business partners and other external bodies. Their goal is to ensure that proposed business changes, complex products and processes are implemented to deliver on the programs�strategic benefits and objectives. PMI’s The Standard for Program Management defines programs as groups of related projects and operational activities managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually.

The goal of this course is to equip the participants with the necessary knowledge, skills, and techniques to set up, plan, manage, and control programs based on the 2006 PMI Standard for Program Management. You will learn and apply the principles of program management through a case study and up to thirteen exercises. Candidates can select from either two scenarios or if attending in groups of 4 or more to use their own programs as the case scenario and conduct the thirteen exercises to practice key elements of a program life cycle.

Who Should Attend
You should attend if you plan, control or manage the execution of complex projects, or programs made up of multiple projects often with operational activities. Roles of suggested participants would include; IT application managers, product managers, event managers, and consultants. Others who can benefit from this course may include those who manage projects within programs, aspire to either become a program manager or to better understand the program and how it impacts and is impacted by projects and those who act as a portfolio manager, program management officer, project management officer, functional manager, marketing director, consultant, or researcher

What You Will Learn
You’ll learn how to:


Describe the project management process and its benefits
Use project management vocabulary and terminology
Identify the characteristics of a successful project
Create an initial project plan
Identify and be able to perform the major aspects of project initiation, project control and close-out
Identify and describe cultural change issues in implementing project management
Learning Objectives


What a program is, how it fits within a project/program portfolio and how it differs from portfolios and projects.
How to structure a program, create a program board to ensure effective governance, identify and sequence the projects, estimate, schedule, optimize resources, setup communication, collaboration and reporting structures and coordinate ongoing operations with projects that may effect and be effected by them.
How to align program objectives with those of the organization as well as the community within which it will operate and produce results.
To identify program management activities across the program management process groups: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and closing, and the applied best practices to perform them in varying situations
Use the importance of the benefit realization plan to build, manage, communicate, monitor and control it and most importantly to realize expected benefits.
Identify the essential skills of the effective program manager and manage a team of project managers, operational leads, marketing teams, executives, clients, regulators, partners and suppliers and assess your own and your group’s level of proficiency and plan for growth
Course Overview
Getting Started

Introductions
Course structure
Course goal
Course objectives
Target audience
Project Management Context & Concepts


Programs, projects and portfolios, what they are and how they relate
Program management and program managers: Managing complex efforts to realize benefits
Benefit management
Stakeholder management
Governance: Program management office and program boards
“The Standard for Program Management�overview
Program Management Life Cycle


The difference between program life cycle and program management process
Characteristics of program life cycle
Benefit management and program life cycle
Program governance and program life cycle
Five phases of program life cycle:
(i) pre-program setup
(ii) program setup
(iii) establishing a program management & technical infrastructure
(iv) delivering the incremental benefits
(v) closing the program
Program Initiation


Initiating a program
Authorizing constituent projects
Initiating a team
Program Planning


The program management plan
Interface & transition planning
Planning program scope, schedule, cost, resources and quality
Planning program communication, risk and procurement
Planning measurement and performance evaluation
Program Execution


Directing and managing program execution
Acquiring and developing the program team
Performing quality assurance and information distribution
Managing procurement activities
Program Monitoring and Control


Program integrated change control
Monitoring and controlling program work
Controlling program resources, scope, quality, schedule and cost
Controlling program risks, issues, communication and contracts
Measuring benefits realization
ProgramClosure


Closing the program
Closing components
Closing contracts
Interim and post program reviews
Recap/Closing

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