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 Harrogate

Harrogate is a district situated in the shire county of North Yorkshire. The town is famous for its Spa Industry. It is also a tourist place. The major attractions of the town are RHS Harlow Carr gardens and spa waters. The city also has a National park. In the 17th century, the town was divided into High Harrogate and Low Harrogate. Now the two towns combined known as Harrogate. People are very friendly there and in the survey of 2013, it was voted as the happiest place among any other cities in the England. Elements such as common salt, Sulphur and Iron are found in huge quantity in the Spa water. In the Georgian era of the 16th century, this town was famously known as The English Spa. The Iron-rich water had been used for medical treatment for two centuries (17th and 18th). Because of this sure shot treatment, there had been a large number of people migrated to this town. So, it added a lot more wealth in the basket of the town.

History

As per the records of the 13th century, the earlier names of the town were Harrowgate, Harrogate and Harwegate. Still, no one could explain the origin of the town. During the late 13th century, King Edward III admittedly the Knaresborough forest to his son John. He was Duke of Lancaster. The root cause of the development of the Harrogate was owing to Sulphur and Iron-rich water. William Slingsby found the similar properties of Belgian spa water in the water of Tewit well. Edmund Deane gave a push to the importance of water and published in its book. A very important episode of past i.e creation of water gas by Engineer Samson Fox is also associated with the town. His invention was in the field of heating and gas lighting. By using this, he lit Parliament Street by water-gas. He had been mayor for 3 terms.

Geography

The town provides shelter to many travellers working in Bradford and Leeds. The property prices are very high here. There are many properties in the town as well as villages that have worth more than 1 million pounds. The climatic condition of the town is dry in summer and mild during winters.  There are many towns that have establishments below the Harrogate.

Economy and Landmarks

The economy of the town is very strong. It is also one of the flexible economies in the Britain.  The Harrogate International Centre hosts the conferences appreciated at the global level. It earns huge revenue from here. This Centre is appreciated by all over the Britain and Europe as well. Other famous items that have been exported by Harrogate are Farrah’s Toffee, Harrogate Blue Cheese, Harrogate Bluewater, and Yorkshire Tea. The famous Architect Temple Lushington Moore constructed a famous building St Wilfrid in the town. The Frank Matcham renowned Royal Hall Theatre is also in the city. The Royal Pump Room representing town’s spa industry also attracts tourists to the town. Other prominent places are Montpellier quarter, The Valley Gardens, Crescent Gardens and a few more.

Culture

The today’s Harrogate Theatre helped the British soldiers that were fighting Boer War in South Africa. The North of England’s leading arts festival i.e Harrogate Festival of Arts and Science has also been celebrating in the city. As per channel 4 TV show 2005, it stood at third place to live in the UK. The number dropped to one in the next year.

Sport and Transport

The Finish Line of the first stage of the Tour de France is organised by Harrogate Authority. The Event attracted a huge bulk of the crowd from other parts of the world and it was telecast to the global audience. It is well connected with road, railway and air.

Components of MoP

Various Components of MoP

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