Course Overview
Our P3O Foundation course covers the basics of the Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O) model. The purpose of this model is to provide universally applicable guidance, including principles, process, and techniques, which will enable individuals and organisations to successfully establish, develop and maintain appropriate support structures.
These structures will facilitate:
- Informing senior management's decision making on prioritisation, risk management and development of resources across the organisation to successfully deliver their business objectives (portfolio management)
- Identification and realisation of outcomes and benefits via programmes and projects
- Delivery of programmes and projects within time, cost, quality and other organisational constraints.
The training is aimed at giving delegates an understanding of the philosophy behind the P3O model and preparing them for the P3O Foundation certification exam, which they sit at the end of the course.
Our P3O Foundation is a 2 day course with the official APM Group P3O Foundation certification exam given at the end of the second day. It is expected from the participants that, additionally to the classroom training, they spend some time studying by themselves according to the trainer's instructions. It consists of a well balanced mix of theory and practical exercises. The course is led by our accredited P3O trainer - Mr. Martin Caron from OpEyE Consulting. The course will be delivered in English. The training materials and exam are in English.
Every course delegate receives two weeks before start the OGC P3O Guidance and Pre-course workbook with questions to be answered in advance. All our course attendees are provided with on demand e-mail support from the moment they order the course until three months from the end of the training course.
A key element of the course is the P3O process model, providing a decision enabling/delivery support structure for all change within an organisation. This may be provided through a single permanent office which may exist under several different names, e.g. Portfolio Office, Centre of Excellence, Enterprise or Corporate Programme Office.
It may otherwise be provided through a linked set of offices (portfolio office, programme offices, project offices), both permanent (enabling/ supporting business objectives and consistency of delivery) and temporary (enabling/ supporting specific programmes and projects), providing a mix of central and localised services.
OGC's P3O, Managing Successful Programmes, PRINCE2 and Management of Risk all touch on the need to provide adequate support structures for these best practices. However, currently there is no single source of this information that either organisations or individuals can go to find guidance or advice on setting up or running an effective delivery support office in alignment with OGC's Best Practice guidance. Exercises will be used to help you understand and apply P3O principles and concepts. The training also provides room for discussing attendees' daily practise. The exercises are based on a casus.
Attendees get the opportunity to practise with the P3O Foundation exam, using a testing exam which is part of the training material to be delivered at the beginning of the training.
Audience
This course is suitable for Portfolio managers, senior managers, programme directors, consultants, portfolio-, programme- or project- office managers. You are involved in or responsible for optimising, developing or re-energising the organisational decision process to translate business strategy effectively into concrete actions, programmes or projects, given the available resources and other constraints (business change). It is your responsibility to take decisions or you are responsible for facilitating decision makers by providing them the required information.
You may want to start a P3O certification track (AMPG P3O Foundation and P3O Practitioner).
You have knowledge and experience with portfolio-, programme- or project- management and have basic knowledge and understanding of models and techniques used in this area of work.
Skills Gained
- Why have any form of P3O?
- What is the added value of having a P3O?
- What is P3O?
- What is the terminology of P3O?
- What services or Functions should be offered?
- How to set up and operate a P3O model?
Examinations
At the end of the course delegates take the P3O Foundation certification exam
Course Outline
The training covers the following subjects:
- Portfolio, programme and project management
- What is a P3O
- Why have a P3O
- Organisational context of portfolio, programme and project management
- P3O models
- P3O implementation
- P3O tools and techniques
- P3O roles and responsibilities
- P3O business case
- P3O Foundation testing exam
