Modules
- Course outline
- AIPMO
- Introductions
- Certification path, Different levels of exam & Sample foundation questions
- PMOs, T&Ts and success - the link
- What research reveals (the average number of T&Ts known is only 10 for project managers and less for team members from a total of approximately 200)
- The shortfall in knowledge
- The review, analysis and confusion
- The path to understanding – frameworks, filters
- The understanding and testing
- The book on Project, Program, Portfolio and PMO Tools and Techniques
- Your role in the AIPMO T&T journey
- Definitions and a ‘Definition-Gap’
- The T&T hierarchy to aid understanding
- Tools- Generic and commercial
- Techniques – Basic, Chains and CATs
- Some Statistics on the types of techniques and tools
- Implications and importance of the findings
- Introduction to the T&Ts Lifecycle Framework
- Organizational strategy, EEF, PMO Vision, Mission, Strategy, Goals, Governance, Management, Continuous improvement, Adaptive alignment
- Definition of capability, service and how they are applied within the PMO context
- T&Ts Principle based Maturity Model and T&Ts Utilization Lifecycle
- T&Ts Categorization & Implementation framework
- Identify the need for T&Ts
- Selection and rational
- Adaption - chains, CATs and generic tool structures
- Pilot, Implement, Apply & use, Monitor & Control
- Background to the research findings on the determination of the top 30 T&Ts (Patanakul et al 2010) across project phases
- Discuss and review
- Decision making T&Ts
- Risk management T&Ts
- Conflict management T&Ts
Determining root cause(s) of project failures linking to T&T
Overview of PMO Services
Managing and approving T&Ts
Risks of outsourcing with respect to T&Ts
Building a T&Ts Set of Services
T&Ts register
T&Ts maturity assessments
- Revision and Exam