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Seminar Outline
Program Management
• Identifying how your organization approaches project management
• How program management fits into the project management lifecycle
• Outlining enterprise strategy and different models for program management
• Determining how to prioritize projects within a program/enterprise
• Defining what is meant by a program, subproject and portfolio
• Distinguishing between projects and programs
Program Management and Project Initiation
• Identifying the roles and responsibilities of a program manager
• Defining various organizational structures: project office and project management office
• Identifying what needs to be in place and standardized across projects and programs
• How to integrate a project into an existing program
Program Management and Project Planning
• Planning and program management
• Creating a resource pool
• Building a master/program schedule
• Identifying inter-project dependencies
• Analyzing a master/program schedule to reconcile resources and interdependencies
• How to standardize data gathering
Program Management and Project Execution
and Control
• Determining frequency of report review at the
program level
• Tracking performance to date and schedule impact
• Reconciling projects to the program
• Critical reports for managing and tracking projects
• How to intervene on under-performing projects
• Forecasting program performance
• Reconciling cost and schedule variance at the program level
• Managing risks across several projects
Program Management and Project Closing
• Closing out staggered projects
• Closing out the program
• Introducing program management into your organization
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Benefits and Learning Outcomes ▼
- Understand multiple project management and prioritization models
- Improve project reporting - what's good, what's bad, what matters and makes sense
- Enhance your inter-project conflict management skills
- Learn techniques for managing project resources across the organization
- Manage project resource pools within your organization
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