Project Portfolio Management: How to Design, Build and Manage a Project Portfolio

Course Info

Length: 1 Week

City: London

Type: In Classroom

Available Dates

  • Jan-06-2025

    London

  • Jan-20-2025

    London

  • Mar-31-2025

    London

  • May-05-2025

    London

  • July-07-2025

    London

  • Sep-29-2025

    London

  • Nov-03-2025

    London

Dates in Other Venues

  • Feb-03-2025

    Paris

  • Feb-03-2025

    Istanbul

  • Feb-03-2025

    Dubai

  • Feb-03-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Feb-03-2025

    Barcelona

  • Feb-03-2025

    Singapore

  • Feb-03-2025

    Amsterdam

  • Apr-07-2025

    Dubai

  • May-05-2025

    Istanbul

  • May-05-2025

    Paris

  • May-05-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • May-05-2025

    Amsterdam

  • May-05-2025

    Singapore

  • May-05-2025

    Barcelona

  • June-30-2025

    Dubai

  • Aug-04-2025

    Paris

  • Aug-04-2025

    Amsterdam

  • Aug-04-2025

    Barcelona

  • Aug-04-2025

    Istanbul

  • Aug-04-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Aug-04-2025

    Dubai

  • Aug-04-2025

    Singapore

  • Oct-06-2025

    Dubai

  • Nov-03-2025

    Istanbul

  • Nov-03-2025

    Amsterdam

  • Nov-03-2025

    Barcelona

  • Nov-03-2025

    Paris

  • Nov-03-2025

    Singapore

  • Nov-03-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Dec-29-2025

    Dubai

Course Details

Course Outline

5 days course

 

Portfolio Management Basics and Foundations
 
  • Definitions and Differences: Project, Program and Portfolio
  • Portfolio Triple Constraint
  • Why Project Portfolio Management?
  • Practical Challenges in Executing PPM
  • Organizational Project Management
  • Portfolio Management and Organizational Strategy
  • Roles and Responsibilities of a Portfolio Manager
  • PMI View of Portfolio Management

 

Portfolio Construction Monitoring & Control

 

  • Initial Portfolio Creation
  • Initial Portfolio Calibration
  • Portfolio Construction Processes
  • Project Business Plan
  • Why Terminate a Project?
  • Sunk Cost Fallacy & Dilemma
  • Portfolio Balancing
  • Portfolio Assessment

 

Portfolio Measurements & Metrics
 

  • Success Measurements
  • Outcome & Performance Measures
  • Portfolio Metrics
  • Project Metrics
  • Project Prioritization
  • Efficient Frontier
  • Weighted Scoring Models
  • Forced Ranking
  • Paired Comparison
  • Project Evaluation
  • Cost of Capital
  • Measuring Financial Benefits
  • Measuring Non-financial Benefits
  • Data Visualization Tools

 

Benchmarking
 
Desirable properties for benchmarks
Index calculation methodologies
Price weighted indices
Market capitalization indices
Equally weighted indices
Benchmark selection
Benchmark statistics

 

Portfolio Risk Management
 
  • Uncertainty vs. Risk
  • Portfolio Risks
  • Decision Trees
  • Monte-Carlo Simulation
  • Sensitivity Analysis
  • Resource Allocation
  • Rolling Wave Planning
  • Factors Affecting Resource Availability
  • Resource Allocation Tools
  • PMO

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