Implementing Project Portfolio Management: From Organization Structure to Recognized Revenue · Module 0 · Orientation
The PPM implementation lifecycle
Lesson 3 of 198 · 3 min
Ten phases: discovery, scoping the offerings, design, configure, template build, data migration, test cycles, training, cutover, hypercare. One of them appears in no other course in this catalogue. "Scoping the offerings" is a named phase here and nowhere else. It exists because the two-offering question must be settled before design starts. Not during. Before — because the answer decides which half of this product you are implementing. Then where the twenty modules sit against those phases, and which are Project Financial Management, which are Project Execution Management, and which are both. If you are on one track, it tells you what you can skip. WHAT MAKES PPM PROJECTS DIFFERENT. One. Two stakeholder groups with different vocabularies. Finance says "expenditure type". The PMO says "activity". They mean overlapping but different things, and neither group knows the other's word. Two. In-flight projects at cutover. The business does not pause its projects for…
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The video, the complete written lesson and the module quiz are included in Implementing Project Portfolio Management: From Organization Structure to Recognized Revenue, with a certificate on completion and a fourteen-day refund window.
In this module: Module 0 · Orientation
- 1How this course works
- 2Getting an environment
- 3The PPM implementation lifecycle
- 4Your setup checklist