Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Essentials

This Course equips you with the essential knowledge and practical tools that you need to succeed in the practice of Project Portfolio Management (PPM). When your Board or Executive Management Team need high quality project portfolio decision support analytics and data visualisations you will know how to respond.
Course materials were designed for and taught as a compulsory part of the
Masters of Business in IT Management (MBITM) Program at the University of Technology, Sydney
for over 10 years.
Undertaking this Course can save you many tens of thousands of dollars in consulting and tuition fees! In addition to nearly 5 hours of video lecture presentations it provides practical demonstrations of "how to do it" using
portfolio analytics and visualisation
tools which have been developed and proven in practice over many years. A significant amount of the course is dedicated to explaining how
Agile delivery
and project portfolio management can best work together.
The Course is highly practical. Students are provided with helpful and easy to use
FREE templates and tools
that they can take away and start using.
The Course is divided into 8 sections: 
Welcome and Overview
Introduction to Project Portfolio Management
Frameworks, Models, Cycles and Standards (including the
Global Management Standards
and
Scaled Agile Frameworks
)
Portfolio Intelligence: Data Analytics and Visualisation
Portfolio Governance
Commercial Portfolio Management Products
Project Portfolio Management Toolkits, and
An educational game to practice and hone project portfolio mangement skills.
You should take this course if you: 
Sponsor, manage or participate in organisational change programs and projects
Manage or perform a PMO function
Are an Executive or Manager at an organisation that undertakes a lot of projects
Want to improve your career opportunities in project management.
Who this course is for:
People who sponsor, manage or participate in organisational change programs and projects
Portfolio Directors, Portfolio Analysts and PMO Managers
Executives in project intensive industries
Managers aspiring to Executive level