
Introduce agile project portfolio management alongside traditional portfolio management, outlining the three pillars, key processes, and the journey from inception to release with agile release and resource management.
Explore historical case studies to identify top symptoms of ineffective product portfolio management, including resource contention, shifting priorities, unprioritized initiatives, and weak linkages to strategy.
Examine historical case studies, including the virgin lands project, to show how agile project portfolio management fails when forecasts and interdependencies are ignored.
Explore the current state of project portfolio management, highlighting global project spend, failure rates, and the three pillars—maximize value through project mix, balance risk and reward, and ensure strategic alignment.
Illustrates the flow from project inception to completion within project portfolio management and project management, using ROI-focused examples to show selection, business case, and resource planning.
Prevent portfolio chaos by implementing project portfolio management to avoid too many projects, thin resources, and misaligned strategy. Implement disciplined scoping, estimation, value assessment, and governance to deliver high-value initiatives.
Learn how agile project management uses iterative sprints, breaking work into smaller pieces, prioritizes individuals, working software, customer collaboration, and a dynamic product backlog.
This course is a result of 25 years of consulting project and portfolio management experience and participation in project portfolio management (PPM) implementations at multiple companies.
The first part of the course will focus on definitions and descriptions of the key concepts of project portfolio management and Agile project management. First, we will examine several case studies that would help us to define the three pillars of project portfolio management: maximizing the project value, balancing the project mix and alignment of your company’s portfolio to its strategy.
Then we will examine the differences between project management and project portfolio management as well as the zones where they overlap and support each other. We will conclude the Project Portfolio Management overview with several reasons why bad things usually happen if portfolio management is ignored.
Consequently, we will also discuss Agile Project Management and its key components like Agile core values, Agile project processes and comparisons between Agile and Waterfall approaches.
In the second part of the course, we will examine the proposed Agile Project Portfolio Management processes starting from the High-Level Design Document (HLD) to Low-Level Design Document (LLD) to Development and Release. We will also discuss Agile resource allocation and Agile release management.
Finally, I will demonstrate to you – using real-life project documents the complete journey of one project I have worked on through the entire Agile PPM pipeline, from inception to the final delivery.