Foundation
The Foundation course provides an understanding of:
- The Portfolio Management cycles, practices and techniques and the organisational context within which they operate.
- Effective approaches to investment identification, categorisation, prioritisation and selection.
- How project and programme success can be enhanced by adopting a Portfolio perspective to delivery.
The course also provides the participant with an opportunity to:
- Demonstrate sufficient knowledge and understanding to work as an informed member of a Portfolio Office or in a range of Portfolio Management roles.
- Consolidate learnings through practical activities and practice exam questions.
Practitioner
The Practitioner course prepares participants to undertake and pass the MoP Practitioner Exam. The Practitioner level qualification aims to measure whether the candidate has sufficient knowledge and understanding of the MoP to apply and tailor the MoP guidance and to analyse portfolio data, documentation and roles in relation to a scenario situation.
Note: Practitioner course is an exam preparation course and focuses on the application of the Management of Portfolios to prepare candidates for the Practitioner examination.
KEY TOPICS
The MoP courses explore the following content, with the Foundation level focusing on the theory and the Practitioner considering the application of the method to a given scenario:
- Understand the purpose and context of MoP
- Implement, sustain and measure portfolio management
- Explain the strategic and organisational context
- Identify the principles of portfolio management
- Describe the Portfolio Definition and Delivery Cycles
- Recognise the vital roles and responsibilities in portfolio management
- Identify essential documentation
- Review of all examination syllabus areas
- Practice exam questions
MoP Practitioner preparation includes a comprehensive review of the above topics, including how they can be applied to an organisation. Review will take the form of discussion groups, revision questions and completion of sample exam questions.
Note: All content is covered in Foundations. Practitioner focuses on preparing participants for the Practitioner exam and so does not introduce new content.