Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using the state-of-the-art simulators. This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of portfolio management. It covers the strategic alignment and organizational strategic goals and objectives; the portfolio scenarios, options analysis, risk analysis, SWOT analysis and financial analysis; the prioritization analysis/criteria, governance with a rationale for decision making and impact to portfolio and portfolio components due to changes in strategic goals and objectives; and the prioritization, interdependency analysis, organizational constraints, portfolio components sequencing, dependencies and strategic alignment. Further, the course will also discuss the governance model and structure; the strategic goals, portfolio management standards, protocols, rules and best practices; the benefits realization planning, information management, performance and communication; the risk management and stakeholder engagement, resource and change management; the portfolio management plan, governance model, escalation procedures, risk tolerances and governance thresholds; and the portfolio using the portfolio roadmap and supporting artifacts.During this interactive course, participants will learn to monitor portfolio performance on an ongoing basis using reports, conversations, dashboards and auditing techniques; manage portfolio changes using change management techniques; improve portfolio performance and maintain strategic alignment; achieve strategic portfolio objectives as well as analyze and optimize the consolidated allocation/reallocation of capacity; update and refine the existing portfolio road maps using change analysis and maintain records by capturing portfolio artifacts; apply portfolio risk management, governance risk guidelines, processes, procedures and other organizational assets; employ communications management, communication strategy and plan; evaluate current communications capabilities; and identify gaps and documenting communications plan to meet stakeholder requirements. link to course overview PDF

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology before or during the course for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued to participants through Haward’s Portal. This includes Wallet Card Certificates if applicable
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy Training Materials (PDF format) will be issued to participant through the Virtual Training Platform
Training Methodology	:	80% of the program will be theory and 20% will be practical sessions, exercises, case studies, simulators or videos
Training Program	:	The training will be for 4 hours per day starting at 09:30 and ending at 13:30
H-STK Smart Training Kit	:	Not Applicable
Hands-on Practical Workshops	:	Not Applicable
Site Visit	:	Not Applicable
Simulators	:	Only software simulators will be used in the virtual courses. Hardware simulators are not applicable and will not be used in Virtual Training