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Project Portfolio Management: Skills and Techniques

DATE

2022-12-14;

LOCATION

To Be Determined;

Why Attend?

The overall aim of this course is to provide participants with a generic and practical methodology to build and manage a balanced project portfolio. The course covers all project portfolio cycle where it defines basic project portfolio terminologies, introduces project portfolio models, presents projects evaluation techniques (both financial and non-financial). Also, the course offers projects prioritization tools for ranking projects, techniques for quantifying portfolio uncertainties and risks, assessment of portfolio performance using earned value analysis.

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course-obj_img Target Audience

The target audience includes: portfolio directors and managers, senior managers, decision makers, portfolio sponsors, PMO staff, program and project managers and all individuals involved in building and managing their organization project portfolio. Meirc has been reviewed and approved by the PMIĀ® Authorized Training Partner Program. This course is worth 30 Professional Development Units (PDUs).

  • Developing portfolio model
    • Project portfolio management (PPM)
    • Role of PPM in strategy execution
    • Elements of project portfolio
    • Comparisons between project, program and portfolio
    • Portfolio model
      • Portfolio funnels and filters
      • Decision filters
      • Value creation process
      • Portfolio Optimization using Efficient Frontier
  • Project portfolio management (PPM) methodology
    • Project portfolio management methodology (PPM) phases
      • Build foundation
      • Design portfolio
      • Construct portfolio
      • Monitor and control portfolio
  • Project evaluation and prioritization
    • Project evaluation
      • Shareholder value
      • Drivers of shareholder value
      • Financial metrics
      • Non-financial metrics
    • Project prioritization
      • Project ranking tools
      • Efficient frontier steps
      • Scoring models
      • Portfolio dashboards
  • Managing uncertainty and risk
    • Risk and uncertainty in decision-making
    • Portfolio risk management steps
    • Tools and techniques for uncertainty and risk
      • Decision tree analysis
      • Scenario analysis
      • Sensitivity analysis
      • Monte Carlo analysis
  • Monitoring performance using Earned Value Management (EVM)
    • Earned Value Management (EVM) Foundation
      • WBS
      • Gantt chart
      • Bottom-up cost estimate
    • Performance measurement baseline (PMB)
    • Earned value management (EVM) building blocks
    • Current portfolio performance indicators
    • Future portfolio performance indicators
    • Portfolio management office (PMO)

2022 - Course Format & Date

DATE: 2022-12-14; - 2022-12-16;
COURSE DURATION: 0; DAYS
VENUE: To Be Determined;
COURSE FORMAT: Face To Face;
AMOUNT: GHS 0;

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