Strategic Portfolio Management Fundamentals

Strategic portfolio management is all about taking strategy into action via development portfolios – making smart prioritization decisions, executing strategic initiatives successfully, and ensuring benefit realization. Today, more and more development is happening also via agile development, and portfolio management may be happening in hybrid mode - combining projects and agile. Portfolio management is difficult by nature, and many organizations are struggling in this area, even though super-smart portfolio managers are working hard in this domain.

Learn the fundamentals of Strategic portfolio management

- Common challenges and WHY it is important?

- WHAT Strategic Portfolio Management is, and how it is linked to hybrid development portfolios and product portfolios?

- And HOW to develop this challenging area step by step! Practical methods and tools are introduced for the different capability areas to support your journey.

To support your learning journey, handy PowerPoint Work Book is provided with homework for you to take the lesson concepts to your own organizational context. This could be also a great opportunity to take the course with your colleague or friend - homework assignments provide a great tool for you to develop your portfolio management practices forward!

The workbook includes also Strategic Portfolio Management Maturity Model and easy-to-use assessment questions - this helps you to plan the next steps for your organization!

My mission is to create awareness, share good practices, and provide practical help to manage development portfolios efficiently. I hope this course gives you food for thought and also tools and methods to take to your everyday work!