Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Essentials

Getting the fundamentals right

This Course equips you with the essential knowledge and practical tools that you need to succeed in the practice of Project Portfolio Management (PPM). When your Board or Executive Management Team need high quality project portfolio decision support analytics and data visualisations you will know how to respond.

Course materials were designed for and taught as a compulsory part of the Masters of Business in IT Management (MBITM) Program at the University of Technology, Sydney for over 10 years.

Undertaking this Course can save you many tens of thousands of dollars in consulting and tuition fees! In addition to nearly 5 hours of video lecture presentations it provides practical demonstrations of "how to do it" using portfolio analytics and visualisation tools which have been developed and proven in practice over many years. A significant amount of the course is dedicated to explaining how Agile delivery and project portfolio management can best work together.

The Course is highly practical. Students are provided with helpful and easy to use FREE templates and tools that they can take away and start using.

The Course is divided into 8 sections: 

1. Welcome and Overview

2. Introduction to Project Portfolio Management

3. Frameworks, Models, Cycles and Standards (including the Global Management Standards and Scaled Agile Frameworks)

4. Portfolio Intelligence: Data Analytics and Visualisation

5. Portfolio Governance

6. Commercial Portfolio Management Products

7. Project Portfolio Management Toolkits, and

8. An educational game to practice and hone project portfolio mangement skills.

You should take this course if you: 

1. Sponsor, manage or participate in organisational change programs and projects

2. Manage or perform a PMO function

3. Are an Executive or Manager at an organisation that undertakes a lot of projects

4. Want to improve your career opportunities in project management.