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Real World Program Management

Course Length: 2 days

Course Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Professional Development Units (PDU's): 14

Public Course Price: $995. Corporate customers and government agencies - please call 1-866-888-MIND for pricing of on-site courses.

Current Schedule: This course is available to corporate customers and government agencies at this time. Scheduled on demand in a public forum. If you are interested in attending this course in a public session, call Mindavation at 1-866-888-MIND to be put on our wait list.

Course Price: Corporate customers and government agencies - please call 1-866-888-MIND for pricing of on-site courses.

Course Description: In an increasingly complex world, program management – the managing of multiple related projects in an optimal way - is a vital skill, and a significant and non-trivial growth step for project managers to make. Program management involves a much greater involvement with senior leaders, numerous conflicting objectives, and tension between day to day business management issues and overall program deliverables. Working through these and other significant issues, requires experience, sound standard processes, and, more importantly, pragmatic “how-to’s” to make your program successful. This class takes the theory of what to do when you are managing a program, sifts through the “nice-to-haves”, and provides recommendations for what is really needed to be successful, including the types of tools that are needed to bring a program’s deliverables to fruition.

This course will help you understand the common traps a program manager can face when dealing with this greater role in the organization, and how to avoid them. Programs succeed when they are well conceived and sponsored, have the proper governance and control tools, and, most importantly are organized with the target business (versus technology) in mind. This course focuses on the fastest ways to get these accomplished, as we understand that in many cases, program managers are assigned to programs that are well and truly in progress. This class is designed for the new program manager, and for the experienced program manager that wants to validate their techniques, and expand the approaches they can use to manage their programs.

Key Learning Objectives

Assist participants in preparing for the PgMP exam
Help the participant understand the differences between project management and program management
Foster the management of multiple critical paths, and derive what needs to be managed by the program manager, and not the project managers
Drive the importance of cross-project links as the key to successfully managing the critical paths inherent in programs
Derive techniques for business management, and not technical management, as the key to successfully managing programs. Program management is a BUSINESS exercise
Understand and set priorities between; project objectives, program objectives, operational execution and service level management
Examine approaches to assist the sponsoring organization in preparing for the deliverables that are provided by the program to the business

PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas covered in this course: Project Communications Management, Project Human Resource Management, Project Integration Management, Project Time Management, and Project Risk Management, Project Scope Management

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