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Program Management: Essential Skills for Your Program Success
Level: Intermediate
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4.59/5 Based on 189 Reviews
Co-authors Richard A. Spires and Hamid Aougab discuss the need for effective program management. WATCH THE VIDEO to the right.
Key Features of this Training
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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
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Recommended Experience
- Attendees should have managed or served on multiple project teams in the past
Course Outline
Program roadmap
Program management plan
Managing the Benefits
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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)
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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
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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
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Establishing the Program Roadmap
Program scope
- Defining program scope
- Developing the program Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Establishing program components
- Selecting major milestones
- Developing the roadmap
- Estimating the program costs
- Developing subsidiary plans
- Determining resources
- Generating an acquisition strategy
- Developing a program transition plan
- Identifying program benefits
- Planning benefit realization
- Delivering program benefits
- Reviewing and optimizing benefits realization
- Transitioning and sustaining benefits
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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
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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
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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
Team Training
Important Course Information
-
Recommended Experience
- Attendees should have managed or served on multiple project teams in the past
Course Outline
Program roadmap
Program management plan
Managing the Benefits
-
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
- Defining program scope
- Developing the program Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Establishing program components
- Selecting major milestones
- Developing the roadmap
- Estimating the program costs
- Developing subsidiary plans
- Determining resources
- Generating an acquisition strategy
- Developing a program transition plan
- 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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