This groundbreaking course focuses on issues such as program and portfolio management in organizations that must adapt to the realities of great uncertainty, complexity and rapid changes - an agile world. The course takes participants on a journey from traditional methods to modern agile methods.
The final part of the course, look forward and focus on the company's ability to increase its agility. As a participant you get a unique knowledge that can be quickly applied and are in high demand in many companies. The course is based on research knowledge about the fields of program and portfolio management.
Students Outcomes
- Use appropriate tools and methods - also apply your own cases
- Understand the dynamics that affect business programs and portfolio of projects
- Knowledge of project management, program management and portfolio management in a traditional and in an agile context
- Access to the latest knowledge, best practices and research in this area as well as organizational or Business agility
- Networking opportunities
- Increase your job potential from project manager to program manager or business developer
- Develop professional skills in the field at master level
- Ability to reflect theory of the big questions
- Course certificate which envisions your knowledge in the field
When a larger organization must realize a strategy, program and portfolio management is essential for implementing the strategy as a portfolio of projects and programs. As a result, it becomes a core competency for many organizations to successfully manage the portfolio and implement projects and programs.
But the increasing amount of projects and programs increases the need for portfolio management too. Many organizations do not have enough resources to implement them all, which can impede development, complicate planning or removes focus.
Companies are with time becoming better at implementing projects however too many projects still fails in various ways, ranging from significantly longer projects and cost overruns for projects that do not achieve their goals.
Programs are typically more complex than the projects, and the impacts are greater for the company when a program fails. With more resources at stake, it is crucial - sometimes for the future of the company - to have the right skills in the portfolio and program management.
Agility is an organizations ability, willingness, and culture to change. Agility is critical to an organizations ability to thrive and develop in an industry with many changes and growing uncertainty. The most agile or flexible organizations are in understanding and establishing a framework of strategy, culture, leadership, people and processes, the more likely they are at succeeding. Therefore, it is crucial for program and portfolio management to support the organizations road towards agility.
Value for the company
- Strengthen and highlight the company’s competencies in program and portfolio management
- Inspiration for strategy development
- Focus on problem solving as own cases are discussed
- Access to the latest knowledge, which can easily be shared after completing the course
- Employees obtained skills in diagnosing and troubleshooting
- Maintaining and upgrading the knowledge and skills of employees
- Effective course format of a weekend
- In-house course possible where only your programs and portfolio discussed