Practical approach to Project Portfolio Management

Hi, my name is Martina and I want to help you with your first steps in Project Portfolio Management.

If you want to know more about my background, you can visit my website. But I can tell you Project Portfolio Management may be tricky, but it is not exactly a rocket science. And if it is – don’t worry I also have background in aerospace engineering, so you are in good hands! You don’t need any special tools to take this class, just an open mind.

I will explain you what the project portfolio really is, what are its elements and how many projects can be gathered in a Project Portfolio. I will show you that sometimes managers are already managing Portfolio without noticing. We will see what are the best ways to report Portfolio and to whom it should be really reported? I will give you some tips with practical aspects like – how often prepare portfolio report, how to organize your team to get information for the report. I will explain what differences between handling project, program and portfolio are. And what most important why Portfolio matters and how portfolio report will help you a lot with managing the portfolio in practice.

And at the end you will get your hand dirty with a final project. You will resume situation in Emma’s Portfolio. This will be an excellent warm up before taking care of your own Portfolio situation.

So, let’s get started!