PMFits®
Help a fictitious company to manage its programs and understand in practice the decision-making models to get the benefits that will realize the strategic business objectives.
PMFits® is an innovative workshop with a hands-on approach to program management. The participants use case studies and a set of programs and decision-making models such as the benefits management, to get a proper understanding of how to decide the right mix of projects to be undertaken.
The methodological basis for all the PMFits' work can be found on the Standard of Program Management published by the Project Management Institute and on the Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) published by the UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC).
No experience required
PMFits® is designed for executives, strategic planning teams, investment planning teams, project managers and others stakeholders involved in the program management or multiple-projects management.
The workshop does not require experience in projects or in program management. All knowledge necessary for comprehension and participation in the workshop will be presented during the training.
How it works
During a one-day seminar, the participants are grouped into teams to support Tiger Screws, a fictitious screw and connector’s factory with global operations. Each team, from the strategic direction of the company, must structure and manage its programs focused on the management of benefits.
Upon receipt of the strategic vision and its direction for the next years, the participants the participants will define and choose the strategic objectives and benefits to be used in the management of the program, as well as evaluate projects of other programs of the company during its execution and finally reach the final result.
In this stage of the workshop, the models of program structuring and execution a program are presented and applied. And in order to ensure understanding of the process, participants will do all the calculations of the Benefits Review Plan with only one data sheet and a basic calculator.
The results will then be analyzed and measured. As each team has a specific program, with a series of projects, each project's performance of each being different, allowing a discussion of the results between groups. At the end of the program, the results are evaluated and revealed.