MoP® Foundation & Practitioner

Learn to implement MoP® into an organisation

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Management of Portfolios Foundation and Practitioner course ensure that delegate gain the knowledge of Portfolio management and the skills required to implement, guide, adapt and alter data and documentation of Portfolio. During this course, the delegates will learn to suggest and start the implementation of Portfolio into an organisational environment. Also learn to deliver the projects/ programmes successfully within time, make effective decisions and enhance the communication between the staff members.

  • Get the knowledge and skills required to implement MoP principles into an organisation

  • Make better decisions and invest in a right manner

  • Attain both MoP Foundation and MoP Practitioner certification

  • MoP Foundation is the prerequisite of MoP Practitioner

  • Our trainers are well experienced and MoP certified professionals

  • Become a competent project manager

PREREQUISITES

  • Delegate should be able to understand and implement the MoP techniques effectively

The delegate should also be able to:

  • Define the business case to get approval of senior management for management of portfolio
  • Understand the portfolio management implementation
  • Select suitable MoP principles and practices to meet the needs of the organisation

For the Foundation course:

The delegates should have an understanding of delivering projects/programmes and develop an organisational strategy

For the Practitioner course:

Before enrolling into it, delegates are required to clear the MoP Foundation exam.

TARGET AUDIENCE

  • Delegates who want to enhance their skills for efficient portfolio management.
  • MoP Foundation and Practitioner course is best suitable for the decision makers, senior managers involved in the management of project and programmes as well as the staff working in the organisation.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

  • Get an understanding of MoP principles, practices, techniques and other operations into an organisation
  • Learn the various approaches to invest, select, categorise and then prioritise
  • Understand how adopting a suitable portfolio management strategy, the success rate of the project and programme can be improved
  • Work efficiently as the member of the portfolio office or at any portfolio management roles
  • Learn to apply and adapt MoP techniques
  • Efficiently analyse data of portfolio, its documentation and various other roles in according to the situation
  • Enhance the communication among the members
  • Better decision making and more productivity
  • Manage the resources effectively
  • Manage the risks efficiently and get better return on investments

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Management of Portfolios (MoP) provides delegates with the knowledge to implement practices, principles and techniques to enhance the performance of the organisation regarding investment and BAU work. MSP Training delivers MoP Foundation and Practitioner course to attain this qualification. MoP helps the businesses and organisations to make better decisions and implement business changes from a top-down approach. Achieve MoP Foundation and Practitioner certification to get a better knowledge of portfolio management regarding applying best practice techniques and methods.

Examination

The format of MoP® Foundation examination:

  • There are multiple choice examination questions
  • Number of questions per paper is 50
  • To clear the exam 25 marks are required that is 50%
  • Duration of the exam is 40 minutes
  • It is a closed book examination

Examination format of MoP® Practitioner upgrade :

  • The format of an examination is objective type
  • Number of questions per paper is four, and every question has 20 marks
  • All question items are worth one mark
  • Total marks of paper is 80
  • Duration of the exam is three hours
  • To clear the exam 40 marks are required that is 50%

MoP Foundation and Practitioner


PROGRAM CONTENT

Overview

  • Define Portfolio
  • Introduction to Portfolio Management
  • Portfolio Management Model
  • Relation between MoP principles, practices and cycles
  • Difference between portfolio and portfolio management
  • Methods to adopt cost-effective approaches
  • Circumstances that effect the implementation of MoP principles and practices
  • Benefits and Objectives of Portfolio Management

Implement and Measure

  • Three approaches to implementing portfolio management
  • Understand the impact of Portfolio management
  • Seven steps towards implementation of portfolio management

Organisational and Strategic Context

  • 6 Primary functions and activities of portfolio management
  • Portfolio management by Business As Usual
  • Allocation of resources and budgeting
  • Strategic planning
  • Effective corporate governance

Portfolio Management principles

  • Senior management commitment
  • Governance alignment
  • Strategy alignment
  • Portfolio office
  • Energised change culture

Portfolio Definition Cycle

Various portfolio definition practices:

  • Understand
  • Categorize
  • Prioritize
  • Balance
  • Plan

Terms and concepts related to portfolio management cycle:

  • Three-point estimating
  • Reference class forecasting
  • Multi-criteria analysis
  • Decision conferencing
  • Clear line of sight

Portfolio Delivery cycle

Portfolio Delivery practices

  • Management control
  • Benefits management
  • Financial management
  • Risk management
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Organizational governance
  • Resource management

Roles and Documentation

  • Major purpose of portfolio management
  • Roles and Responsibilities of portfolio managers
  • Use of significant documentation of Portfolio management

Implement, sustain and measure

  • Suitable approaches for implementing, measuring and maintaining portfolio management for a given situation
  • Analyse the suitable approaches

Portfolio Definition cycle

  • Implement and adapt the practices and techniques of Portfolio definition cycle to the situation
  • Find best suitable practices and techniques
  • Find, analyse and differentiate between the suitable and unsuitable portfolio definition cycle approaches

Portfolio Delivery cycle

  • Implement and adapt the practices, responsibilities and techniques of portfolio delivery cycle
  • Find suitable methods and techniques

Roles and Documentation

  • Implement and adjust MoP to the situation
  • Find the appropriate solution to the significant portfolio management roles
  • Find, analyse and differentiate between the necessary and unsuitable portfolio definition cycle approaches
  • Find that the specified roles reworking appropriately

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ABOUT Birmingham

Birmingham city is located near the small river Rea. Being situated at West Midlands of UK, it is also recognised as the metropolitan borough. It is the very famous and largest city outside the London. The population of the city is 1 lakh 10 thousand approximately as per last recorded population census of mid-2016.

During the medieval period, a medium sized market grew and got the international status in the 18th century. Within this period, many innovations took place that results in the foundation of modern industrial society. It was announced as the leading manufacturing town in the world in 1791. The unique economic profile of Birmingham motivates the excellent levels of creativity and innovation to provide an economic base for industrial welfare. It includes many small workshops which practice a wide variety of skilled and experienced trades. Birmingham city is the most followed football club of the region. Government is also backing the bid of the town for hosting 2022 commonwealth games.

Government

The largest local authority in Europe is Birmingham City Council. There are 3 councillors in each ward and making the strength of total 120 in 40 wards. The city headquarters is in the Victorian square. John Clancy led the Labour Party which has a majority as of 2017. It comes to the majority by defeating the Conservative/Liberal Democrat in the elections of May 2012. In June 1896, Lord Mayoralty’s honour and pride were conferred by Letters Patent.

Geography

Being at the centre of the West Midlands region of Birmingham Plateau. The height of the town from the sea level is between 500 and 1,000 feet above. It is crossed by the main watershed of the UK in-between the sinks of rivers Trent and Severn. The city most of the area was a developed and transformed part of the Arden forest. Its presence can be felt in cities like Saltley, Hockley, Moseley and much more. These areas still have dense oak trees.

Climate

Being close to the ocean, Birmingham has a maritime climatic condition. In summer, the temperature is average to the maximum that us 21.3 °C and in winters the temperature is around 6.7 °C. On average, the hottest day of the year was 28.8 °C and the coldest day was –9.0 °C between 1971 and 2000. The highest temperature was recorded nearly 34.9 °C during late 19th century. 

Environment

Birmingham as largest number of parks than any other European city. It has total 571 parks that are spread over 3,500 hectares of public open space. The city is full of trees. It has approximately 6 million tresses. Also, it has 250 miles of urban streams and brooks. Sutton Park is the main Park of the town that gets most of the visitors of the world. It covers 2,400 acres in the north of the city.    

Not an only park, but Birmingham also has many areas of wildlife which lies in both informal settings like Project Kingfisher and Woodgate Valley and in the selection of parks like Handsworth Park, Lickey Hills, Cannon Hill and more.

Demography

According to the mid-year estimate in 2012, the population of Birmingham was 1,085,400. It is 1% increase from the estimate held in 2011. There has been a drastic increase in the population of the city since early 20th century. It is the major local authority outside the London.

It has a population density of 10,391 occupants per square mile when compared to the 976.9 occupants per square mile. Birmingham can face an increase of 8.0% in a population that is 1,160,100 by 2021.

Religion

The majority of the population follow Christianity within the city. In 2011, it was found that 46.1% of the population is Christian. This city has a diverse profile of religions. Birmingham outside the London has the largest number of other communities like Muslim, Sikh and Buddhist. The second largest community is Hinduism.   

Components of MoP

Various Components of MoP

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