In this program management training course, you will learn the best practices, including how to:
- Develop a business case
- Align program requirements with organizational objectives
- Execute a program roadmap
- Establish a governance framework
- Manage stakeholders
Program Management Training Delivery Methods
Program Management Training Benefits
Developed by expert program managers and based on the approaches of organizations such as the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Learn how to set up and manage a project roadmap
Align projects and their goals with the wider organizational strategy
Test your knowledge in the included end-of-course exam
Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching
Program Management Course Outline
- Program roadmap
- Program management plan
- Managing the Benefits
In this module, you will learn how to:
- 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)
In this module, you will learn how to:
- Develop the vision, goals, objectives, and assess the maturity of your organizational strategy
- Define business, data, application, and technology architectures
- Describe the organizational portfolio
- Assessing the “as-is” and future “to-be” states
- Specify required changes to existing systems and processes
- Establish required new systems and retirement of systems
- Avoid the “Shelfware” syndrome
In this module, you will learn how to:
- Create and structure a defendable program business case
- Determine costs and benefits of a business case
- Identify and analyze risks and opportunities
In this module, you will learn how to develop the program scope and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), including:
- 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 and delivering program benefits
- Planning benefit realization
- Reviewing and optimizing benefits realization
- Transitioning and sustaining benefits
In this module, you will learn how to develop the program scope and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), including:
- Establish the proper governance structure
- Distinguish between program, portfolio, and organizational governance
- Define the decision-making authority
- Identify and create program stakeholder profiles
- Generate a stakeholders register
- Establish the program management team
In this module, you will learn how to develop the program scope and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), including:
- Design the program dashboard to assess program health
- Establish dashboard utilization and updates
- Identify the necessary metrics and select their sources
- Identify, classify and assess program risks, opportunities, probabilities, and impacts
- Identify and resolve program issues
In this module, you will gain the leadership, management, and communication skills necessary to lead a program, including:
- Setting the vision
- Protecting the team
- Dealing with adversity
- Understanding and working with stakeholder expectations
- Establishing and following the processes
- Selecting the right people for the right roles
- Negotiating resources
- Communicating effectively with staff at all levels
- Driving proper communications between project teams
- Ensuring proper communications with all stakeholders
