Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Essentials

Course details

When your Executives need high quality project portfolio decision support and analytics 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 for and have been part of the syllabus of the Masters of Business in IT Management (MBITM) Program at the University of Technology, Sydney since 2004.

This course can save you many tens of thousands of dollars in consulting and tuition fees! In addition to video lecture presentations it provides practical demonstrations of "how to do it" using both an industry leading PPM product and analytical 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. In addition, students will be provided with FREE online access to a "sandpit" instance of an industry leading PPM product in order to practice the techniques covered in the lectures.

The course is self-paced but should take about 10 hours to complete. It consists of 7 sections:

1. Introduction: PPM - What and Why?
2. Portfolio Selection
3. Portfolio Monitoring and Controlling
4. Portfolio Governance
5. Commercial Portfolio Management Products
6. Advanced Portfolio Management Concepts
7. PPM 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.