The course has an integrated approach which helps participants to understand the full life cycle of a program as it identifies the success factors and shows the alignment between projects in the program.
The participants will understand how to structure a business case, how to initiate and plan a program, as well as monitoring the results/benefits using the PMI’s best practices of Standard of Program Management and OCG’s Management of Successful Programs (PRINCE2)
Training content
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
- Differentiate between projects, programs and portfolios
- Define the tactical and strategic benefits of a program
- Understand a program structure
- Manage benefits shared among projects
- Define the roles and responsibilities of a program manager
- Define and structure metrics for results
- Identify and solve problems in allocating resources between projects within the program
- Create and manage the communication plan
- Identify the main causes of change to unable change control to be effected in the program
Fact sheet
- Course duration [?]
- 16 hours
- Number of participants [?]
- Minimum 20 students per class
- Target audience
- Program managers, project team members, portfolio managers and others stakeholders interested in the program management process.
- Requirements
- Desirable project management knowledge.
- Language(s) [?]
- Portuguese, English and Spanish
- Local
- Provided by the contractor. Worldwide attendance.
- Certification and PDU [?]
- All training participants will receive a participation certificate with 16 PMI's PDUs.
(PMI R.E.P. activity number: Macro023)
Teaching Methodology Top ↑
Macrosolutions had developed the market's most awarded dynamics, concerning the projects training.
In this course, the following dynamics will be used:
- PMRank Lite
- Reduced version of the PMRank® portfolio management workshop. It takes about 2 hours long. It presents a practical, direct and iterative way for the main factors involved in the aligned projects’ strategic interests transformation. More.
- Case studies
Ricardo Vargas throughout his career as a project manager and an expert in that area has selected a relevant set of case studies and exercises that allow the participants to associate real and fictional cases the to daily work.
All case studies are appropriate to the nature of the client and the training audience.
- Videos selection
In order to facilitate the student learning, videos that cover various parts of movies, commercials, home videos, etc. are used in the classroom environment to fix concepts and associate technical issues with the reality of work and also to introduce new concepts.
They are short videos with direct focus on specific topics, tools and cases.
- Group Work
Several studies and exercises will be proposed by the instructor in order to present a particular topic or discuss a particular approach to project management.
Throughout the training the teamwork will be encouraged and strengthened as a mean for the group to learn.
- Simulators
To discuss some mathematical and statistical approaches, the instructor will perform specific mathematical simulations to estimate the expected results for the risks, schedules, costs, among others. They are computational methods that use mathematical concepts, operational research and statistics as a conceptual basis.
Courseware
The courseware to be received by the students will consist of slides, articles and lists of exercises, and it may also contain the following special products by Ricardo Vargas:
- 5 Minutes PM Videocast. Practical classes with Ricardo Vargas. DVD distributed worldwide by Microsoft that celebrates the Microsoft Project 2010 launch.
Exclusive student access area
In addition to the exclusive printed material, all participants will have access to the courseware’s electronic version, to the files of exercises and to the work done in the classroom.
The access is given through the restricted site that is available and prepared by the Macrosolutions team considering each course that we provide.
This initiative is a pioneer in the educational market and also anticipates trends related to the documents’ electronic management
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Training basic program
- ‣ Course opening
- 1. Contextualizing Program Management
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- Definition of Program Management
- Difference between Programs, Portfolios and Projects
- Managing benefits: understanding complexity in results
- Structuring program governance
- PMO and program management
- General view o PMI’s Standard Program Management
- 2. Program Life Cycle
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- Difference between program life cycle and product life cycle
- 5 phases of the program life cycle
- Governance and the 5 phases of the life cycle
- 3. Initiating a Program
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- Creating a business case for the program
- Developing program charter
- Authorizing constituent projects
- Structuring executive sponsorship
- Training the teams
- 4. Planning a Program
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- Defining the project management plan
- Planning the projects of the program
- Defining the program’s triple constraints
- Defining program communication
- Defining the program’s performance baseline
- 5. Executing a Program
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- Directing program execution
- Developing program team
- Program Quality assurance
- Communication management
- Program Procurement Management
- 6. Monitoring and controlling the work packages
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- Executing integrated change control
- Controlling allocated resources
- Measuring benefits realization and assuring continued business justification (PRINCE2)
- Controlling risks and contracts
- Evaluating effectiveness of communication
- 7. Closing a Program
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- Evaluating benefits realized
- Closing a program
- Closing contracts
- Demobilizing
- 8. Managing Complexity in the Program environment
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- Increased complexity and risk in program management
- Cultural differences
- Power and politics
- Complex negotiations
- ‣ Course close-out
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Supported standards and methodologies
Project Management Institute (PMI) PMBOK Guide Optional PMI Practice Standard for Estimating — PMI Practice Standard for Earned Value Management — PMI Practice Standard for Configuration Management — PMI Practice Standard for Risk Management — PMI Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structure — PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling — PMI Standard for Portfolio Management Yes PMI Standard for Program Management Yes PMI Project Manager Development Competency Framework — Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®) Yes UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC) PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environments) Yes MSP (Managing Successful Programmes) Yes M_O_R (Management of Risks) — P3M3 (Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management Maturity Model) Yes P3O (Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices) Yes MoP (Management of Portfolios) Yes MoV (Management of Value) — Scrum Alliance Scrum Methodology — International Project Management Association (IPMA) ICB® IPMA Competence Baseline —