Program Management Training

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Distinguishing between a project and a programme
• Defining programmes, projects, and portfolios
• Clarifying the roles of the project and programme managers
• Setting up a Programme Management Office (PMO)

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Develop the vision, goals, objectives, and assess the maturity of your organizational strategy
• Define business, data, application, and technology architectures
• Describe the organizational portfolio
• Assessing the “as-is” and future “to-be” states
• Specify required changes to existing systems and processes
• Establish required new systems and retirement of systems
• Avoid the “Shelfware” syndrome

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Create and structure a defendable programme business case
• Determine costs and benefits of a business case
• Identify and analyze risks and opportunities

In this module, you will learn how to develop the programme scope and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), including:

• Establishing programme components
• Selecting major milestones
• Developing the roadmap
• Estimating the programme costs
• Developing subsidiary plans
• Determining resources
• Generating an acquisition strategy
• Developing a programme transition plan
• Identifying and delivering programme benefits
• Planning benefit realization
• Reviewing and optimizing benefits realization
• Transitioning and sustaining benefits

In this module, you will learn how to develop the programme scope and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), including:

• Establish the proper governance structure
• Distinguish between programme, portfolio, and organizational governance
• Define the decision-making authority
• Identify and create programme stakeholder profiles
• Generate a stakeholders register
• Establish the programme management team

In this module, you will learn how to develop the programme scope and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), including:

• Design the programme dashboard to assess programme health
• Establish dashboard utilization and updates
• Identify the necessary metrics and select their sources
• Identify, classify and assess programme risks, opportunities, probabilities, and impacts
• Identify and resolve programme issues

In this module, you will gain the leadership, management, and communication skills necessary to lead a programme, including:

• Setting the vision
• Protecting the team
• Dealing with adversity
• Understanding and working with stakeholder expectations
• Establishing and following the processes
• Selecting the right people for the right roles
• Negotiating resources
• Communicating effectively with staff at all levels
• Driving proper communications between project teams
• Ensuring proper communications with all stakeholders