Program Management

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain what is PgM? What are the key differences between PM and PgM?
• Identify the program life cycle as outlined in PMI’s new PgM standard.
• Create a program roadmap to link organizational strategies and business objectives to programs and projects.
• Manage program pre-planning, setup and monitoring and controlling a successful program consisting of multiple, interdependent projects.
• Focus on the key themes of PgM – Stakeholder Management; Governance and Benefits Realization.
• Chart a benefits mapping plan to build, manage, communicate, monitor and control the realization of expected program benefits.
• Identify the necessary tools and techniques of Program Management
• Identify the essential competencies of the effective program manager and manage a team of project managers, functional managers, marketing teams, executives, clients, partners and suppliers.
  

• Program Management (PgM) is emerging as the next big frontier in project management (PM). It is indeed the missing link to enhance Project Management to the next level and resolve some of the traditional Project Management challenges.
• Learn to implement business strategies through an integrated portfolio of projects involving the management of multiple teams and executive-level stakeholders.
• True PgM is different from PM and requires a refined set of business and leadership skills that are vastly different from that of a project manager.
• Provides the foundation that you need to prepare for PMI’s new credential, the Program Management Professional (PgMPsm ) It provides the knowledge, in an organized and immersive framework, that you need to improve your program management competency.