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Building, Planning and Managing Post-Crisis Project Portfolios

Responding to the Changing World

Building, Planning and Managing Post-Crisis Project Portfolios
Course Schedule

CLASSROOM

07-11 Jul 2025
Dubai
$5,950
22-26 Dec 2025
Dubai
$5,950
Certificate
  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course

Training Overview

Training Overview

Portfolio management offers a strategic framework for governing bodies to guide a collection of projects and programs toward achieving specific outcomes. It plays a crucial role in selecting the right mix of projects, while effective program and project management ensure they are executed properly. In the Post-COVID era, the significance of portfolio management has intensified due to evolving risks, priorities, and the need for adaptive governance.

The "Building, Planning and Managing Post-COVID Project Portfolios" training course will provide practical insights into the processes and tools necessary for effectively managing project portfolios. Participants will learn how to identify, select, prioritize, govern, allocate resources, and monitor portfolio performance in alignment with organizational objectives.

Key features of the course include:

  • Understanding portfolio management as a strategy implementation tool, especially in the context of the new normal post-COVID-19.
  • Exploring the portfolio life cycle, including its phases and controls.
  • Adapting portfolio strategies to meet emerging challenges.
  • Integrating portfolio governance with overall organizational governance.
  • Managing stakeholders, risks, and value within the portfolio framework.

What are the goals?

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to: 

 

  • Learn and apply the main concepts of portfolio management
  • Learn how to build a portfolio and identify and evaluate its components
  • Learn how to prepare a prioritized portfolio register and plan the portfolio
  • Learn how allocate portfolio resources and apply capacity management techniques
  • Measure and report portfolio performance using KPIs and Dashboards

Who is this Training Course for?

This training course is suitable for all executives, portfolio managers and functional managers of various levels, who are involved in all stages of selecting, prioritizing, budgeting, authorizing, planning, and managing project portfolios.

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

 

  • Board Members and Senior Executives  
  • Functional Managers working such as Finance, IT and Procurement Managers
  • Portfolio Managers and Portfolio analyst
  • PMO managers and PMO staff
  • Program and senior Project managers

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. To serve the program goals a mix of different techniques will be used to energize the trainees such as lectures, power-point presentation, application on portfolio analysis tools, structured discussions, brainstorming sessions, and case studies.

The Course Content

Day One: Portfolio Management Concepts and Definitions
  • Organizational Project Management (Portfolios, Programs and Projects)
  • Principals of Portfolio Management, Program Management and Project Management
  • Portfolio Management and Organizational Strategy
  • COVID Impact on Strategy and Portfolio Management
  • Standard Roles in Portfolio Management before and after COVID 19
  • Portfolio Governance and Organizational Governance 
Day Two: The Portfolio Life Cycle
  • Portfolio Life-Cycle Overview
  • Initiating and Building a New Portfolio
  • Re-Building an Existing Portfolio
  • Selecting and Prioritizing Portfolio Components
  • Portfolio Planning before and after COVID 19
  • Portfolio Execution, Optimization, Monitoring and Controlling 
Day Three: Portfolio Strategic Management and Governance
  • Developing Portfolio Strategic Objectives
  • Portfolio Charter
  • Portfolio Roadmap
  • Selecting Portfolio Components
  • Portfolio Strategic Alignment
  • Portfolio Governance 
Day Four: Portfolio Capacity and Capability Management
  • Capacity management
  • Supply and demand management
  • Organizational Capabilities Assessment and Management
  • Portfolio Reporting and Analytics (KPIs, Dashboards, etc)
  • Portfolio Stakeholder Management and Communications 
Day Five: Portfolio Risk and Value Management
  • Portfolio Risk Management
  • Portfolio Value Management
  • Design and Implementation of Portfolio Management Information System (PMIS)
  • Course Review
  • Question and Answer

Providers and Associations

Anderson
Anderson
Aztech Training
Aztech Training