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UMD, USMx: Program Management Fundamentals – Governing with Excellence to Drive Strategic Change
Learn the practices behind program delivery excellence, stretch your ability to connect program stakeholders to purpose, achieve meaningful change, stay focused on the program’s mission, then drive integration successfully across program teams. Overall program understanding will be accomplished with strong links to portfolio management and project management.
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4 weeks at 2-3 hours per week
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Online - Self Paced
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About UMD, USMx: Program Management Fundamentals – Governing with Excellence to Drive Strategic Change
Programs fail before they start, and there is a good reason for that. The relationships amongst portfolios, programs, and projects are not understood well nor is the role of programs in achieving change aspirations.
Today nearly 70% of Digital Transformation programs fail and the reasons seem to be addressed as a guessing game;
The likelihood of being in the 30% successful bucket hinges on the leadership qualities of the program team and the clear program vision and purpose supported by value-driven roadmaps.
In this course, you will learn key program management principles, leadership skills, roles, mechanics, and supporting cultural attributes. This will provide you, over four weeks, the foundational understanding of the program management and program lifecycle role in executing strategies, successfully driving initiatives, developing an exploring mindset, and uncovering program management fundamental templates and toolsets, such as the Work Breakdown Structure, and skill sets, such as customer focus, applied in the real world.
What You Will Learn?
- The relationships amongst portfolios, programs, and projects and understanding how they align to deliver value.
- Why do programs, project plans, and strategies have to be connected, with comprehensive portfolio management, to accomplish critical deliverables, achieve end dates, meaningful investment success, and gain a competitive advantage .
- The linking processes between program management and change management to drive project teams and sustain innovative outcomes and associated metrics .
- How to show in the program plan the way resource management and different program roles support its success .
- How to leverage the role of the program sponsor to excel in the achievement of business goals and drive with clear risk management principles and meaningful dashboards .
- Using a program roadmap to create the connecting blueprint that integrates the focus, training, and expertise of the program team. FAQs will help guide you in coming with the most relevant options.