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The Online Workshop

The four sessions

This online event invites you to bring your own experiences and management challenges into play using a set of structured learning events, Zoom-mediated interactions, and personal reflections.

Each session is 90 minutes long with the opportunity between sessions to try out the lessons learned back in the workplace.

Session 1: Getting the structure of a programme right

• Setting the vision
• Sequencing the tranches
• Developing the transition states or islands of benefit
• Structuring the project interdependencies

Exercise 1: Analysing a programme brief (Using your own or another’s programme brief)

Session 2: Selecting the ‘best’ portfolio

• Techniques and models to establish a project portfolio
• Handling changing priorities
• Dealing with resource contention
• Managing dependent projects

Exercise 2: Establishing project portfolio inclusion criteria

Session 3: Managing a programme

• Roles within a programme management office
• Managing programme critical interfaces
• Boundary management in a programme
• Work package management: working with line managers

Exercise 3: Reporting options for a programme

Session 4: Culling projects

• Addressing the stakeholder issues
• The management of ‘adjourning’ team members
• Failing cases
• Programme and portfolio implications

Exercise 4: Sharing approaches to culling used by organisations