Building a High Performance Enterprise Portfolio Management Initiative

Workshop Description

This one-day workshop, facilitated by renowned PPM and PMO expert and author Terry Doerscher, will help you increase the overall change management capacity for your organization and significantly improve operational performance and teamwork. Whether you are just considering a PPM program or are ready to take your current initiative to the next level, this event offers proven concepts and practices that will eliminate barriers to increased effectiveness, efficiency and operational alignment.

Through a series of presentations, interactive discussions and team exercises, participants will be able to explain how different applications of portfolio management, program and project management disciplines relate to and enable the overall cycle of change. Attendees will learn how to create, modify and apply a functional process map unique to their organization as an indispensable tool to build stakeholder mindshare, assess current capabilities, identify disconnects, prioritize improvement opportunities, and streamline supporting technology.

This workshop will also cover the top must-have practices that are essential to any successful PPM program within a knowledge worker-based environment. As part of registration, attendees will receive a copy of the book, Taming Change with Portfolio Management, co-authored by the facilitator. Participants will leave with the knowledge needed to confidently structure and execute a high value, low risk EPM/PPM initiative tuned to the specific needs of their organization.

Topics

Topics include:

The Case for Action: Why Change Management Mastery is Mission Critical
Reframing the Discussion: Integrated portfolio management and the cycle of change
Essential PPM concepts and practices
Building a Portfolio Management Process Map
Assessing Current Capabilities
The role of Technology in EPM/PPM
The PPM landscape and state of the industry
Structuring a PPM improvement initiative
The role of the PMO

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Terry L. Doerscher leads the Project Portfolio Management (PPM) practice at BOT International. With thirty years of experience as a practitioner, executive and consultant, he is recognized as an industry thought leader on the PMO and portfolio management, and is a trusted advisor to organizations around the world.

In addition to consulting, Mr. Doerscher publically shares his expertise through writing, presentations and international workshops. He has numerous published articles, research reports and whitepapers to his credit, is the co-author of Taming Change with Portfolio Management (Durbin & Doerscher, 2010, Greenleaf Book Group), and is a contributing author to several other books, including Mark Price Perry's Business Driven series and the PMI PMOSIG Program Management Handbook. Collectively, his contemporary work is recognized as a catalyst for redefining the role of the corporate PMO.

Terry received his formal engineering education in the elite US Navy Nuclear Power Program. He is a long-time member of PMI and the Program Management Office Community of Practice; is ITIL certified; and is a Certified Process Design Engineer (CPDE). In addition to his work with BOT, Terry is retained as an Expert-In-Residence by Planview, Inc., and is a founding director and member of the board of the Enterprise Management Association – International.

AGENDA

8:30 AM	Registration
9:00 AM	The Change Imperative
10:30 AM	Essential PPM Practice
12:00 PM	Building a Portfolio Process Map
12:45 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM	Planning an Improvement Initiative
3:30 PM	The Role of the PMO
4:00 PM	Q&A and Open Discussion
4:30 PM	Adjourn

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COST

The cost for this professional executive level workshop is

RIYADH (SAUDI ARABIA)	ABU DHABI (U.A.E)
$595 (USD)	$595 (USD)

Participants will receive a copy of Terry Doerscher's book, Taming Change with Portfolio Management, (Durbin & Doerscher, 2010, Greenleaf Book Group).

Register early as seating is limited.