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Project Portfolio Management: Tools and Techniques

 
Project portfolio management is essential to ensure that your projects and programs are supportive of your organization's strategic objectives. In the portfolio management environment, there is a predefined process for selecting projects and a uniform process for evaluating their success. This workshop provides the tools and techniques to establish and enhance project portfolio management in your organization.

Value to the Participant
- Communicate key concepts and terms used in a portfolio management organization
- Discuss and analyze different portfolio management models
- Develop a process for implementing project portfolio management in your organization
- Develop and manage a personal project portfolio

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Seminar Outline

Introduction
• What is a portfolio?
• What is project portfolio management?
• Why is portfolio management important?
• Where do best practices originate?
• What difference does the industry make?
• What difference does the organization make?
• Do regulated industries have an easier time?

The Organization รท PPM
• Determining organizational governance
• Establishing project governance
• Communicating the business case for PPM
• Identifying optimal versus best practices for PPM
• Creating a comprehensive portfolio
• Identifying the stakeholders

Implementing Project Portfolio Management
Protocols and Practice

• What are the procedures and processes are
critical to implementing a PPM process?
• How to create a project inventory?
• Developing criteria to evaluate projects
• Categorizing projects
• Developing a method to categorize projects
• Confirming project approval
• Establishing critical success measurements
for PPM
• Establishing an organizational master schedule

Project Portfolio Management Models, Processes
and Knowledge Areas
• Reviewing PPM knowledge areas & process groups
• Understanding project scoring models
• Identify key performance indicators
• Develop a ranking process for projects by category, criteria, budget or key performance indicator

Maintaining the Portfolio Management
Protocol / Process

• Keeping up the protocol
• Managing the queue
• Reconciling results
• Continuing to reshaping the portfolio process
• Cancelling projects
• Dealing with pet projects
• Getting to strategic advantage

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This program can be applied toward the:

Prerequisites
Project Management Foundations
  Sessions  
Wed., Dec. 18
8:30am-4:30pm
Location: UWM School of Continuing Education (Click link for directions)
Instructor: Sandra Hoskins, ISP, PMP, ITCP
Fee: $450
CEUs: 0.7/PDUs: 7/CDUs: 7
Program No. 5025-0518
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For more information, contact:
  Maribeth Sacho, Program Associate, msacho@uwm.edu, 414-227-3337
Anne O'Meara, Program Director, aomeara@uwm.edu, 414-227-3311
 

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