Developed specifically for senior executives, this seminar presents the understanding and tools senior executives need to effectively select, prioritize, monitor and oversee all the projects and programs in the organization’s portfolio. You will discover how to ensure each project adds value and uses a minimum of resources while still achieving the project’s organizational objectives. Learn how to focus your resources to your highest-return projects.
Using a well-established framework, you’ll discover the importance of key project management practices and how to use them to achieve project success. You’ll be able to stay on top of your entire project and program portfolio, know when projects are in trouble, re-prioritize based on real business needs, and oversee projects and programs with confidence.
This seminar is intended for senior-level executives providing organizational direction and oversight. Business analysts are also encouraged to attend to broaden their understanding of organizational portfolio management.
1. Introduction
In this introductory module, we begin our core of understanding by presenting a well-established project management framework. We examine the primary organizational objectives of project management itself, and, therefore, the definition of project quality. We also introduce the common language of the project management discipline.
2. A Project Management Framework
We expand our core of understanding in this module by reviewing the actions the project team takes throughout the project life cycle. Through our journey, we begin to establish formal roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders, including the project manager, senior management, project sponsor or champion, functional managers, and other key stakeholders.
3. Roles and Responsibilities
We now examine primary roles and responsibilities of the key project stakeholders, including the project manager, senior management, sponsors and champions, functional managers, supervisors, and other key project stakeholders
4. Selecting and Prioritizing Projects
Senior management, as part of their key role in a project environment, must select and prioritize projects across the portfolio. This module introduces the common successful techniques for developing a project/program prioritization methodology.
5. Project Oversight
Project oversight is also a key function of the senior manager. In this module, we look at specific roles, responsibilities, tools and techniques for providing project oversight.
