Duration
5 Days
Course Objectives
Expect to learn:
- Align projects to strategic objectives
- Manage the business case and quantify performance
- Gain stakeholder buy-in and engage senuor personnel in the change process
- Maintain business as usual focus in a changing environment
- Manage risk, change and resources more effectively.
Audience
- Programme managers
- Programme directors
- Business managers involved in a programme
- Project managers who need to better understand programmes
- Programme / project office managers
- Consultants.
Course Syllabus
Why have a P3O model?
- How does it add value
- Consequences of not investing
- Getting the most from the investment Business case
- Overcoming barriers
- Time scales.
What is a P3O model?
- Overview of P3O models
- What functions and services should the P3O offer
- Integration with the wider organisation
- Roles and responsibilities
- Sizing and tailoring of the P3O model.
How to implement a P3O Model
- P3O Lifecycle
- Define the P3O
- Plan Stages or tranches of delivery
- Deliver the P3O
- Periodic reviews and lessons learned
- Closure and post implementation/benefits review
- Integration with business planning cycles.
How to operate - tools and techniques
- Benefits of using tools and techniques
- Critical success factors
- P3O tools
- P3O techniques
- Tailoring approaches.
Related Courses
Refer to other PRINCE2, MSP and P3O training courses
Prerequisites
No formal pre-requisites.
We recommend that delegates have a sound understanding of project management and a basic understanding of business change.
Examinations
Foundation
closed-book; forty minutes for fifty multiple-choice questions; 60% to pass.
Practitioner
closed book; 2 1/4 hour objective examination with 70 questions in two hours; 50% to pass.