Course Information
Course Overview
Learn the key concepts of project portfolio management and Agile project management
This course is a result of 25 years of consulting project and portfolio management experience and participation in project portfolio management (PPM) implementations at multiple companies.
The first part of the course will focus on definitions and descriptions of the key concepts of project portfolio management and Agile project management. First, we will examine several case studies that would help us to define the three pillars of project portfolio management: maximizing the project value, balancing the project mix and alignment of your company’s portfolio to its strategy.
Then we will examine the differences between project management and project portfolio management as well as the zones where they overlap and support each other. We will conclude the Project Portfolio Management overview with several reasons why bad things usually happen if portfolio management is ignored.
Consequently, we will also discuss Agile Project Management and its key components like Agile core values, Agile project processes and comparisons between Agile and Waterfall approaches.
In the second part of the course, we will examine the proposed Agile Project Portfolio Management processes starting from the High-Level Design Document (HLD) to Low-Level Design Document (LLD) to Development and Release. We will also discuss Agile resource allocation and Agile release management.
Finally, I will demonstrate to you – using real-life project documents the complete journey of one project I have worked on through the entire Agile PPM pipeline, from inception to the final delivery.
Course Content
- 2 section(s)
- 7 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Course Modules
What You’ll Learn
- Understanding of the basics of project portfolio management
- Explanation of the basics of agile project management
- Discussion of a complete (end-to-end) agile project portfolio management process
- Analysis of agile release management and resource allocation
- Demonstration of a real-life project
- Historical case studies
- Three pillars of PPM
- Project management vs. portfolio management
- Why bad things happen without PPM
- Agile core values
- Agile project processes
- Agile vs. Waterfall
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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CCarmina Pereira Azevedo
Part 2 was much more concise, and valuable. It really delivers well on the interaction between PPM, PM, and PO. I also really appreciated that it includes the example of a real-life scenario, demonstrating the changes in the business case and the timeline.
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TTom Geel
Very good high-level overview.
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AAnju Meena
This whole content could have covered in one course. There was no need to split it and make it two parts. In case study few calculations were not explained.
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PPaula
Great practical and real scenarios that can be used for your projects and companies initiatives.