Management of programs and project portfolios - free course from the Russian School of Management, training, Date: December 3, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 07, 2023
How to use a portfolio of projects and programs to achieve strategic goals? How to manage a portfolio of innovative projects? How to prioritize between tasks? How to create a budget for a development program for strategic projects? During the training you will find answers to these questions.
You will learn:
— Features of the project form of management.
— Principles of implementing Agile methodologies.
— Features of Customer Development.
— Basics of Scrum and problems with its implementation.
— Subtleties of developing a hierarchical structure of work and a network calendar schedule.
— Rules for forming a project charter and setting priorities.
Managed and participated in more than 50 projects, including:
- Automation of production management.
- Regulation and optimization of processes.
- Introduction of project management.
- Development of company development strategies.
- Development of educational projects.
Investor (partner) in network projects: catering, training, medicine. Investor of startup projects: foodtech, agrotech.
Publications
- How to get results from corporate training programs (Vedomosti)
- Types of organizational structures (RSHU Portal)
- Why online courses are not always effective (RSU Portal)
- The non-fiction effect: The role of business literature in business (RBC broadcast)
- Training as a project: how to use the Scrum method when training employees
- How a leader can develop systems thinking skills
Certified Project Management Specialist (C/IPMA). Expert on project office, strategic programs and project portfolios.
Certified Project Management Specialist (C/IPMA). Expert on project office, strategic programs and project portfolios.
Manager of innovative projects. Development Director with experience in launching 10 startups. Innovation management and commercialization of developments.
Project management - from charter to reports
• Introduction to project management.
• Project initiation. Preparing for an effective start.
• Building an organizational structure.
• Project scope management.
• Deadline management.
• Creation of a project management system in the organization.
• Management of risks.
• Project control and monitoring/change management.
Flexible project management in business
• The place of flexible design approaches in business. Product Development, Customer Development and Lean Startup.
• Business model of the project and business.
• MVP. A minimally working product to find a solution.
• Pivot: when and how a decision or strategy should be changed.
• Agile in project management. Popularity of different Agile approaches.
• Scrum. The concept of Sprint. Roles in Scrum.
• Team members. Functions and required skills.
• Documents in the project: Product backlog. Sprint backlog. Burndown chart.
• Processes: Sprint planning, review and retrospective. Scrum meeting.
• Implementation of Scrum. Problems and solutions.
Management of strategic programs and project portfolios
• Initiating and planning a program/project portfolio based on strategy. Typology of projects within the organization.
• Prioritization of projects within the program and functional portfolios.
• Project office (structure, powers, composition, responsibility). Development Directorate. Project teams of functional areas.
• Detailed planning of projects within the portfolio using the project server. Working with a corporate resource pool. Critical path and chain methods.
• Formation of the budget for the program of strategic projects.
• Change management during project implementation. Adjustments to strategy and project portfolios. Adjustments to project plans/budgets. Working with risks.
• Reporting on the program/project portfolio. Types and frequency of reports. Examples of reports.
• Completion of projects and transfer of their results to the business environment of the organization. Estimation of delayed effects. Qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Intensive development of the company. Innovation and Start-up
• Areas of innovative development. Innovation strategy, new products and services, breakthrough business models, technological innovation.
• Innovation Factory. Creating an intensive process for generating and implementing new ideas. How to move from one-time ideas to a full-fledged system.
• Portfolio management of innovative projects. How not to slip into bureaucracy, but to ensure the reliability and transparency of innovative projects.
• Startup. How to launch a real startup in an existing company, because this is not just a project or creating a business.
• Risks. The desire for risk is the basis of real breakthroughs. Risks carry the threat of losses, but open up serious opportunities for growth and development.