This program provides 16 hours of hands-on learning and counts for Professional Development Units (PDUs) or Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Self Study PDUs 8 CEUs 8Self Study with weekly Coaching PDUs 16 CEUs 16

This course is designed for Project and Program Managers, PMO Executives, Decision Makers, Consultants, Executives, and project team members who have been tasked with oversight, implementing, and the operations of their organization’s Portfolio Management capability; and who need to:

• Align a company’s project investments with its strategic goals and objectives
• Gain the skills to better alignment a selection of projects to organization’s business and strategy.
• Acquire the knowledge to development and execution a standardized set of best practices for project portfolio management
• Implement a Portfolio Management Governance program that provides guidance and stewardship over the project ideation, selection, calibration, and execution processes while establishing policies and procedures to effectively manage the company’s portfolio assets.
• Improve your career and competitive positioning by enabling to develop the skills to help your company to identify and select investments that will capitalize on business values.
• Monitor the organization portfolio performance.
• Track and perform portfolio management risk monitoring while optimizing the portfolio to mitigate the risk identified.
• Engage stakeholders at all levels of the organization and execute a comprehensive communication strategy.

The materials within this course are mapped to the Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs) identified within the National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Report on integrating Cyber Security with Project Portfolio Management.

Why attend this course?

• Career Advancement
• Become the Project Portfolio Management thought leader for your organization
• Gain the respect of your senior management team
• Increase your business knowledge, skills and confidence
• Improve your stakeholder management ability
• Help your organization develop a strategy execution culture
• Optimization of the IT portfolio due to selection of highest return investments within budgetary constraints
• Creation of a single source of truth for Portfolio data and project financials, schedules and artifacts
• Increased information sharing through portfolio reporting and dashboards
• Consolidation of various tools and processes into one toolkit and one set of processes for portfolio management , project, resource and financial management
• Improve IS department responsiveness to the business.
• Reduce risk and increase portfolio visibility.
• Improved resource demand, capacity, utilization and availability management