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Program Management Certificate Course: Preparing for the PgMP® Certification

 

Program Management Certificate Course: Preparing for the PgMP® Certification
Presented by Lotfy Sabry Mohammad, ExpertsPM, United Arab Emirates
Four Day Course on April 20th to 21st and 23rd to 24th, 2009
Tutorial Code: 102F4

 

7 PDUs [7 Professional Development Unit]
Tutorial Timings 09.00 AM to 5.00 PM
Tutorial Venue: Hotel Concorde Kuala Lumpur

 

 

Brief Profile of Lotfy Sabry Mohammad:

Lotfy Sabry Mohammad is one of the pioneers in organizational project management science with more than 20 years of professional experience. He has trained more than 2000 professionals with 90%+ positive feedback.

 

Lotfy Sabry’s detailed profile is below the course outline.

 

 

 

Program Management Certificate Course: Preparing for the PgMP® Certification: Tutorial Outline

 

About this Course

 

Program managers coordinate the efforts of marketing groups, project teams, product delivery, support, operations and people from other functional groups, including multiple suppliers, business partners and other external bodies. Their goal is to ensure that proposed business changes, complex products and processes are implemented to deliver on the programs’ strategic benefits and objectives. PMI’s The Standard for Program Management defines programs as “groups of related projects and operational activities managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually.”

 

This course provides the information that you need to prepare for PMI’s new credential, the Program Management Professional (PgMP®). At the same time, it gives you the knowledge, in an organized and experiential framework that you need to improve your program management competency and your ability to make a contribution to program success.

 

Who should Attend

 

  •  You should attend if you plan, control or manage the execution of complex projects, or programs made up of multiple projects often with operational activities:

  • Application managers, product managers, event managers, consultants and others

  • If you manage projects within programs and aspire to either become a program manager or to better understand the program and how it impacts and is impacted by projects

  • If you act as a portfolio manager, program management officer, project management officer, functional manager, marketing director, consultant, or researcher.

Performance Focus

 

The goal of this course is to equip you with the necessary knowledge, skills and techniques so you can effectively navigate the initiating, planning, implementation and ongoing operations of program management. This course is fully aligned with the 2006 PMI standard and is a way to prepare for certification as a Program Management Professional (PgMP®).

 

What You Will Learn


You will learn:

 

  • What a program is, how it fits within a project/program portfolio and how it differs from portfolios and projects.

  • How to structure a program, create a program board to ensure effective governance, identify and sequence the projects, estimate, schedule, optimize resources, set up communication, collaboration and reporting structures and coordinate ongoing operations with projects that may affect and be affected by them.

  • How to align program objectives with those of the organization, as well as the community within which it will operate and produce results.

  • To identify program management activities across the program management process groups: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and closing, and the applied best practices to perform them in varying situations.

  • Use the importance of the benefit realization plan to build, manage, communicate, monitor and control it and, most importantly, to realize expected benefits.

  • Identify the essential skills of the effective program manager and manage a team of project managers, operational leads, marketing teams, executives, clients, regulators, partners and suppliers and assess your own and your group’s level of proficiency and plan for growth

Course Overview


Project Management Context & Concepts

 

  • Programs, projects and portfolios: what they are and how they relate to one another

  • Program management and program managers: Managing complex efforts to realize benefits

  • Benefit management

  • Stakeholder management

  • Governance: Program Management Office and program boards

  • “The Standard for Program Management” overview

Program Management Life Cycle

 

  • The difference between program life cycle and program management process

  • Characteristics of program life cycle

  • Benefit management and program life cycle

  • Program governance and program life cycle

  • Five phases of program life cycle:

    • Pre-program setup

    • Program setup,

    • Establishing a program management and technical infrastructure,

    • Delivering the incremental benefits, and

    • Closing the program

Program Management Process Groups

 

  • Program Initiation

    • Initiating a program

    • Authorizing constituent projects

    • Initiating a team

  • Program Planning

    • The program management plan

    • Interface and transition planning

    • Planning program scope, schedule, cost, resources and quality

    • Planning program communication, risk and procurement

    • Planning measurement and performance evaluation

  • Program Execution

    • Directing and managing program execution

    • Acquiring and developing the program team

    • Performing quality assurance and information distribution

    • Managing procurement activities

  • Program Monitoring and Control

    • Program integrated change control

    • Monitoring and controlling program work

    • Controlling program resources, scope, quality, schedule and cost

    • Controlling program risks, issues, communication and contracts

    • Measuring benefits realization

  • Program Closure

    • Closing the program

    • Closing components

    • Closing contracts

    • Interim and post program reviews

Essential Program Manager Skills

 

  • Communications, conflict resolution and relationships with stakeholders

  • Managing with varying levels of authority and accountability

  • Program managers as bottom-line business managers

  • Tools: MS Project and EPM

Recap/Closing

 

Presenter Profile

 

Lotfy Sabry Mohammad, Senior Consultant, ExpertsPM, United Arab Emirates

OPM3-CC, PgMP, PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-SP, MSP, PRINCE2, IPMA, Project+, MCITP-EPM, MCT-EPM

 

Lotfy Sabry Mohammad is one of the pioneers in organizational project management science with more than 20 years of professional experience. He has trained more than 2000 professionals with 90%+ positive feedback. He is also a senior consultant in the implementation of organizational project management maturity models and PMO setup. Lotfy Sabry also has managed tens of successful and professional Microsoft EPM implementations.

 

Lotfy has several first's to his credit including being the 1st person in UAE to become PgMP certified , being the 1st in EMEA, 2nd person in the WORLD to become OPM3 Certified Consultant/Assessor and being the 5th person to become PMI-SP.

In addition to the above, Lotfy holds the following certifications:

 

Organizational Project Management

 

  • OPM3 Certified Consultant / Assessor

Program Management

 

  • PMI PgMP “Program Management Professional” Certified

  • OGC MSP “Managing Successful Programmes” Certified

Project Management

 

  • PMI PMP “Project Management Professional” Certified

  • OGC Prince2 Certified

  • IPMA Certified

  • Project+ Certified

  • Brainbench Certified Project Manager

Scheduling Management

 

  • PMI-SP “Scheduling Professional” Certified

Risk Management

 

  • PMI-RMP “Risk Management Professional” Certified

Microsoft Project

 

    • Microsoft Office Specialist – MS Project 2000

    • Microsoft Office Specialist – MS Project 2002

    • Microsoft Certified Professional – MS Project 2003 Server (Exam 70-281 & 74-131)

    • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist – MS Project 2007 (Exam 70-632)

    • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist – MS Project Server 2007 (Exam 70-633)

    • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist – Managing Programs using MS Project Server 2007 (Exam 70-634)

    • Microsoft Certified IT Professional – EPM Specialization

    • Microsoft Certified Trainer - EPM Specialization.