Training Course Goals

Our one day P3O Overview course provides a basic insight into the Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O) model.

Our P3O Foundation certification course will provide you with fundamental knowledge of the Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O) model. The purpose of this model is to provide universally applicable guidance, including principles, process, and techniques, which will enable individuals and organisations to successfully establish, develop and maintain appropriate support structures, usually called simply the "Project Management Office (PMO)". At the end of the course students (can) sit the official P3O Foundation certification exam.

The P3O Foundation can be followed by the P3O Practitioner course, which focuses on practical application of the knowledge gained, and on preparing students for the P3O Practitioner certification exam.

The main functions of a P3O/ PMO in an organisation are to facilitate:

• Informing senior management's decision making on prioritisation, risk management and development of resources across the organisation to successfully deliver their business objectives (portfolio management)
• Identification and realisation of outcomes and benefits via programmes and projects
• Delivery of programmes and projects within time, cost, quality and other organisational constraints.

The training is aimed at giving delegates an understanding of the philosophy behind the P3O model and preparing them for the P3O Foundation (& Practitioner) certification exam(s), which they sit at the end of each of the same name courses.

Participants & Benefits

This training is suitable for Portfolio managers, senior managers, programme directors, consultants, portfolio-, programme- or project- office managers. You are involved in or responsible for optimising, developing or re-energising the organisational decision process to translate business strategy effectively into concrete actions, programmes or projects, given the available resources and other constraints (business change). It is your responsibility to take decisions or you are responsible for facilitating decision makers by providing them the required information.

• Overview of Method
• Project Management Concepts
• Programme Management Concepts
• Portfolio Management Concepts
• P3O Overview
• P3O Maturity

The P3O Foundation course will give you an answer to the following questions:

• Why have any form of P3O/ PMO?
• What is the added value of having a P3O/ PMO?
• What is P3O/ PMO?
• What is the terminology of P3O?
• What services or functions should be offered?
• How to set up and operate a P3O/ PMO model?

The P3O Practitioner course will:

• Provide you with an opportunity to practise the application of the P3O framework to a real life scenario
• Prepare you for the P3O Practitioner certification exam.

Course Description

Our P3O Overview is an introductory one day non-certification course.

Our P3O Foundation is a 2 day course with the official P3O Foundation certification exam given at the end of the third day. It can be followed by the 2 day P3O Practitioner course.

The courses are delivered in English. The training materials and certification exams are in English.

It is expected from the participants that, additionally to the classroom training, they spend some time studying by themselves according to the trainer's instructions as pre-course preparation. Ca. two weeks before course start every course delegate receives AXELOS P3O Guidance and Pre-course workbook.

All our course attendees are provided with on demand support from the moment they order & pay the course until three months from the end of the training course.

A key element of the course is the P3O process model, providing a decision enabling/ delivery support structure for all change within an organisation. This may be provided through a single permanent office, which may exist under several different names, e.g. Portfolio Office, Centre of Excellence, Enterprise or Corporate Programme Office, or Project Management Office.

It may otherwise be provided through a linked set of offices (portfolio office, programme offices, project offices), both permanent (enabling/ supporting business objectives and consistency of delivery) and temporary (enabling/ supporting specific programmes and projects), providing a mix of central and localised services.

Exercises will be used to help you understand and apply P3O/ PMO principles and concepts. The training also provides room for discussing attendees' daily practise.

Attendees get the opportunity to practise with the P3O Foundation (& Practitioner) exam(s) using sample exams, which are part of the training materials.

The training covers the following subjects:

• Portfolio, programme and project management
• What is a P3O/ PMO
• Why have a P3O/ PMO
• Organisational context of portfolio, programme and project management
• P3O/ PMO models
• P3O/ PMO implementation
• P3O/ PMO tools and techniques
• P3O/ PMO roles and responsibilities
• P3O/ PMO business case
• P3O Foundation (& Practitioner) sample exams

At the end of the P3O Foundation course delegates (can) take the P3O Foundation certification exam, and at the end of the P3O Practitioner course the P3O Practitioner exam (if delegates want to take the P3O Practitioner exam they have to pass the P3O Foundation exam first).