Class Location: Open Technology Business Center -  Main Training Room 15455 N.W.  Greenbrier Parkway Suite 210 Beaverton, OR 97006  USA (We can also teach this course in-house. Call or email us for details) Course Fee: $995 -  Includes Textbook, comprehensive Course Notebook and supplementary materials Empower your innovation capability with program management!

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Course Summary       Sign Up Now - Click once

Program Management bridges a critical gap between Strategy and Projects while providing business-level coordination between related projects. It is an emerging and powerful discipline which is distinct from classical project management with different tools, a different scope and different skills required.

This course will teach you the principles, the setup, the operations and the competencies required to successfully add  program management capability to your organization. Your result will be a significantly improved competitive capability to succeed in today's complex project and business environment. Your focus will expand from individual project success to include a well coordinated, multi-project business success.

Who Should Attend

Business managers and leaders who want to explore the benefits and methods of program management to solve the next level of project complexity or want to improve existing program management practices.

Project Managers whose scope and maturity have grown to include major business programs and large, complex and multifaceted projects.

Executive Leaders seeking a better way to translate business strategies and roadmaps into implementing programs and projects in a disciplined, systematic and effective manner.

IT Managers seeking ways to manage and coordinate complex, multifaceted projects with many pieces needing coordination and synergy.

Why Program Management?         Sign Up Now - Click once

Program Management is a comprehensive solution to emerging business or operation complexity. Picking up where project management leaves off, Program Management bridges the gap between business strategies and project execution and provides an integrating system of management, coordination, and teamwork for unifying multiple, related projects.

The tools and skills of Program Management are unique and distinct from those of project management. Program Management involves the coordinated synchronization and alignment of numerous contributing subprojects and functions, the setup and facilitation of a highly effective Core Management Team, and the constant, business or system level perspective to maximize the total achieved value and success of the program. This course will prepare you to tackle and implement the unique methods of program management to manage today’s complex, inter-related projects and do so with a total business perspective instead of a local project perspective.

Program Management will reduce risk, increase critical coordination, and synchronize key projects and functions to create unique competitive advantage and excellence in execution.

Program Management provides a career growth path for project managers and others towards increasing scope of influence and responsibility.

Learning Objectives:       Sign Up Now - Click once

Completing this course will empower you to:

·         Understand key differences between projects and programs

·         Learn about the unique skill areas required of program managers not found in project training

·         Understand how Program Management solves business problems such as implementation of strategy, getting high return on multi-project investment, handling complexity including cross-functional and cross-cultural teams, cutting across both functional and project silos, and creating high levels of coordination across separate component teams.

·         Develop your leadership role which integrates multiple projects and functions into a whole, cohesive, functioning program focused on “the whole product” and key business outcomes

·         Discover and coordinate key synchronization and coordination points between projects to insure the program comes together successfully and to set up processes that insure those critical coordination processes take place.

·         Lead the team to create a Program Map which serves to identify and coordinate key milestones and achievements between parallel, developing projects.

·         Build and develop the Core Program Leadership Team which insures the discovery of inter-project coordination issues and provides for their solution in a systematic and collaborative way.

·         Understand shifts in other roles such as functional and executive management which will support and improve both the business programs and the functional and domain expertise teams.

·         Facilitate the whole program team toward achievement of broad project milestones

·         Deeply understand the dual-facing role of the program manager to coordinate strategic aims with program and project successes.

·         Develop an individual plan for your own continuing growth as a program manager or alternatively for the transition of your organization into having a stronger program capability.

·         Apply risk management methods at the overall system and program level and understand the key differences between program risks and project risks.

·         Set up an environment which optimizes the whole instead of the parts both in the establishment of value and the reduction of risk.

·         Manage the complex array of stakeholders when you have multiple project, function and business considerations all operating in the same program.

·         Understand the differences in the metrics and indicators at the various levels of the program and be able to properly set in place appropriate assessments and response processes to those metrics to avoid overlap, confusion and operating at cross purposes.

·         Understand the critical relationships between program targets, critical success factors and the metrics used to manage the program to success.

·         Integrate those factors into the Core Program Team management process.

·         How to transition from your current state to a more strongly program-managed process using a step by step approach, a maturity model, and the establishment of consistent, well understood practices.