PRMG 0001 - Advanced Techniques for Managing Multiple Projects

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Course Description

The goal of the course is to provide teams with:

Tools and techniques to establish and maintain a portfolio of multiple projects and programs in your organization.
Tools and techniques that can be used to manage a personal project where you are the project manager, team member or stakeholder.
Key concepts and terms used in a project-centric organization.

Course Outline/Topics

Using Portfolio Strategies

Introduction to Managing Multiple Projects
Overview of Portfolio, Program, Project. Workload Management Techniques
- Taking an Enterprise – Aligning with the Business
- The Enterprise Portfolio – Taking the Strategic View
- My Personal Portfolio – Taking the Personal View
- The Team’s Portfolio – Taking the Team-centric View
- Getting Started – Setting the Stage for Success

Building Your View of the Work – It Matters

Conduct Current State Assessment – What is going on now? What is in the funnel now? Even if it is just for your workload.
Creating and maintaining a Project Inventory – Adapting the Product Backlog Approach.
Categorizing Projects – What needs to happen and for who?
Prioritizing Projects – What needs to happen and when?
Current State Assessment.

Wrangling the Work – Managing the Resource/Talent Demand

Develop a Resource Management Strategy, Process or Framework.
Assess Roles, Responsibilities, Workload, Availability, Capacity.
Determine What to Measure and Why It Matters – What do you need to know, what is the impact of the current state, then Get It Done.

Building and Updating the Project GPS – Stoplights and Master Schedules

Using Master Schedules
Using Stoplights
Using Dashboards, Big Visible Boards, Task Boards
Keeping It Real, the workload always changes (Reshaping Your Portfolio)

Benefits and Learning Outcomes

You will learn to:
- Establish a common process for creating an organizational or personal project workload (a.k.a. managing multiple projects, portfolio or funnel).
- Develop a common approach to the prioritizing projects, whether personal, volunteer, family or work.
- Communicate key concepts and terms used in a project management-centric organization.
- Discuss and analyze different portfolio/project management models.
- Develop a process for implementing strategies in your projects.
- Develop and manage your personal project workload/portfolio.
- Create a process for managing projects consistently.

Prerequisites

Project Management Foundations or equivalent experience.

Testimonials

"Program content was beyond my expectations! I liked the examples provided – real-time, real projects. Very relatable to my projects.”
-Carol Schmidt, ATI Forged Products

“The class size allows you to interact more with the other students and instructor. The facility is wonderful and everyone is very friendly. I thoroughly enjoyed it.”
-Debra Mankowski, Wisconsin Reinsurance Corp.