Organizations that adopt projects as a mean to achieving change and delivering results often find it difficult to prioritize projects and to make best use of their resources; additionally, many recent surveys have demonstrated that project backlog is a major issue in organizations.
Portfolio management is a management approach that aims to align project efforts with the corporate strategy and optimize the efficient use of resources throughout the organization.
This course focuses on two aspects of the management of portfolios:
- Prioritization of projects and other activities, based on their contribution to organizational benefits and their achievability
- Allocation and prioritizing of resources between those projects and activities that have been chosen so that they can deliver the expected benefits
The course identifies five key activities and techniques to accomplish this:
- Analyzing the portfolio of existing and potential projects and activities
- Defining the content of the portfolio according the Strategic Vision
- Selecting the projects and activities to be implemented as part of this portfolio
- Allocating resources to those projects and activities that have been selected
- Collecting and storing project data for performance measurement and portfolio reorientation, based on financial performance, strategic alignment, individual performance of the different components and Risk factors.
The course also discusses the definition of the portfolio in the organization based on its Vision and Strategy...
Le cours est donné en "Français" mais les supports sont en "Anglais".
Develop and enhance the contributions you make to your organization by being able to:
- Understand alignment with organizational objectives & strategic goals.
- Demonstrate capability to analyze and select organizational initiatives.
- Assign resources to these initiatives in an organized way
- Optimize use of resources to ensure corporate benefits delivery
- Take responsibility for change & decisions to realize strategic & business objectives
- Actively manage business value within a governance framework.
- Recognize why, when and how to use portfolio management.
- Support the development of a portfolio framework and culture.
