Course description 
Course content from our alliance partner, IPS Associates. MIP teaches attendees how to integrate and manage conflicting schedules of different but related projects into a single, master schedule. The result? A consistent, cross-functional methodology to integrate resources in multiple locations. Usually regarded as the natural next step following P&MP, MIP is an advanced course where participants learn to perform rapid initial planning, integrate the program scope, and manage interfaces for program success. Ultimately, the course facilitates bringing integrated programs to market predictably and efficiently.
Course description
Add MSP to MIP, and the result is MIP PLUS. This course ties MSP directly to MIP process concepts. The course answers the need for more project management expertise when you add matrixed responsibilities and globally dispersed teams to the program environment.
Course description
Course content from our alliance partner, IPS Associates. Successful projects require senior management to take a leading role in advocating the project to their organization. This course prepares senior managers to do exactly that―to become a "sponsor". Managers learn about validating and monitoring project objectives, management processes, detailed plans, and progress. In addition, this course helps managers save time and delegate power to the front-line project managers―enabling effective sponsorship of multiple projects, and giving time to focus only on the most important project issues.
Attendees will improve their portfolio management skills and enhance their ability to make project portfolios more understandable to their organization―ensuring that the organization invests in the most strategically important projects.
This course is primarily geared toward senior management.
Course description
Managers learn how to systematically choose the most suitable portfolio selection methodology from several options. This methodology will allow the manager to organize a logical selection process for the organization's group of projects to ensure a maximum total return.
Attendees also gain an understanding of how project offices can fulfill portfolio needs by monitoring project performance, and reporting the current status of all projects in the organization, including staff development so that long-term project success rates are improved by the effective management of lessons learned.
Course description
Course content from our alliance partner, IPS Associates. Even if the project meets its schedule, scope, and resource objectives, it can still be a failure if it does not produce benefits that are strategically relevant to the organization. This course encourages the most senior management of the organization to identify financial benefits in projects and their relevant beneficiaries, so that every project accounts for a measurable benefit to the organization. This one-day course utilizes financial concepts that CFOs and controllers want their project managers to understand, and makes the concepts readily actionable on real projects. Senior managers have found that this course allows them and their functional managers to hold projects accountable for improvement in profitability or stock price, and give clear reasons to halt projects that do not provide such benefits. The project go/no-go decision making process is therefore clearly understood on more levels of the organization. The course complements the process in P&MP and MIP, with benefit validation points at set times during the project where senior management can quickly and easily verify that projects produce their intended benefits.
Course description
This course, based on PM-Global's Advanced Project Management (APM) model and years of experience managing global process improvement and systems integration projects, complements the Six Sigma Black Belt program. Recommended for representatives from all functional disciplines.
Attendees will concentrate on:
Analyzing fact-based data for decision-making at the organizational level
Developing opportunities for continuous improvement in customer satisfaction
Methodologies for achieving defect and cycle-time reduction
