Program Management: Essential Skills for Your Program Success
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Co-authors Richard A. Spires and Hamid Aougab discuss the need for effective program management. WATCH THE VIDEO:
You Will Learn How To
- Apply program management best practices
- Align programs with organizational strategy
- Establish and execute the program roadmap
- Set up proper governance structure
- Apply leadership skills and competencies
Important Course Information
Recommended Experience:
- Attendees should have managed or served on multiple project teams in the past
Course Outline
- What is Program Management?
- Distinguishing between a project and a program
- Defining programs, projects, and portfolios
- Clarifying the roles of the project and program managers
- Setting up a Program Management Office (PMO)
- Aligning Programs and Organizational Strategy
Organizational strategy
- Developing a vision, goals, and objectives
- Assessing the maturity of the organizational strategy
Enterprise architecture
- Defining the business, data, application, and technology architectures
- Describing the organizational portfolio
Defining the current “as-is” and future “to-be” states
- Assessing the “as-is” and future “to-be” states
- Determining which parts of the current state can be used
- Specifying required changes to existing systems and processes
- Establishing required new systems and retirement of systems
- Avoiding the “shelfware” syndrome
- Aligning program requirements with EA
- The Program Business Case
Creating a defendable program business case
- Structuring a business case
- Using a process and a template
Financial Analysis
- Determining costs and benefits
- Applying financial tools
Risks and opportunities
- Identifying risks and opportunities
- Analyzing risks and prioritizing initiatives
- Establishing the Program Roadmap
Program scope
Program roadmap
- Establishing program components
- Selecting major milestones
- Developing the roadmap
Program management plan
- Estimating the program costs
- Developing subsidiary plans
- Determining resources
- Generating an acquisition strategy
- Developing a program transition plan
Managing the Benefits
- Identifying program benefits
- Planning benefit realization
- Delivering program benefits
- Reviewing and optimizing benefits realization
- Transitioning and sustaining benefits
- Program Governance and Stakeholder Engagement
Program governance
- Establishing the proper governance structure
- Distinguishing program, portfolio and organizational governance
- Defining the decision-making authority
- Implementing a program governance
Stakeholder engagement
- Identifying program stakeholders
- Creating stakeholder profiles
- Generating a stakeholders register
- Planning stakeholder engagement
- Developing a program communications plan
- Establishing the program management team
- Program Monitoring
Program dashboard
- Designing the dashboard to assess program health
- Establishing dashboard utilization and updates
Metrics
- Identifying necessary metrics
- Selecting source of metrics
- Assessing metrics benefits vs. costs
Risks
- Identifying and classify program risks and opportunities
- Assessing program risks probabilities and impacts
- Selecting risks for the dashboard
Monitor and Control
- Identifying issues
- Assessing program health
- Leading a Program
Leadership skills
- Setting the vision
- Protecting the team
- Dealing with adversity
- Understanding and working with stakeholder expectations
Management skills
- Establishing and following the processes
- Selecting the right people for the right roles
- Mentoring and support
- Negotiating for resources
Communications
- Communicating effectively with staff at all levels
- Driving proper communications between project teams
- Ensuring proper communications with all stakeholders
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Tuition
Standard
Government
In Classroom or
Online
Standard
$3285
Government
$2890
Private Team Training
Course Tuition Includes:
Training Hours
Standard Course Hours: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
*Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
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Earn 23 PDUs
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This course is approved by PMI® for 23 professional development units (PDUs). For more on the Project Management Institute and a full list of courses approved for PDUs.
Technical : 8 PDUs
Business & Strategic : 9.5 PDUs
Leadership : 5.5 PDUs