Programme Management Essentials and Professional
Programme Management provides the cohesion necessary to achieve the required end-state of business change. It enables all projects and activities to be planned and controlled in a co-ordinated manner, typically over a significant period of time and involving a substantial level of cost and resources. It provides a visible and consistent management framework, with clearly defined responsibilities and accountabilities. It maintains a clear focus upon the business objectives, measures and manages benefits realisation and allows for the effective management of risk.
Course Content
- Understanding business change (corporate, strategic, functional, operational)
- Key drivers
- Defining the required end-state
- What is a programme (and what it is not)?
- The relationship between projects and programmes
- Identifying and defining a programme
- Establishing and managing the business case
- Programme organisation
- Roles and responsibilities, including the Programme Sponsor, the Programme Manager and the programme support group
- Communication and reporting arrangements
- Recognising and engaging key stakeholders
- Managing programme benefits
- Determining benefits
- Quantifying tangible benefits
- Recognising and handling intangible benefits
- Realistic planning for benefits realisation
- Measuring benefits
- Risk Management
- Risk analysis
- Risk responses
- Risk Registers
- Integration of programme and project level risk management
- Planning and Control
- Co-ordinating multiple projects
- Roles and responsibilities of the individual project managers
- Organising into “bite-sized chunks”
- Managing quality
- Special considerations for programmes aimed, in part or in full, at achieving cultural change
- Programme Closure
- End-of-programme reviews
- Residual risks and issues
- Continued assessment of benefits
Delegate Profile
These courses are ideal for anyone seeking a broad understanding of programme management, including those moving into a programme related role. The courses will also benefit directors, senior managers, line/operational managers, change directors/managers and project managers working on programme-related projects.
Course Length
The Essentials course is run over two days. The Professional course is run over three days and includes case study work that allows delegates to apply what they have learned to a real-life scenario..