PROJECT, PROGRAMME, PORTFOLIO DESIGN

All contextual influences and demands come together when the organisation initiates a new project, programme or portfolio. The individual working in project, programme or portfolio management has to take into account all these influences and demands. 

The individual prioritises and translates these into a project, programme or portfolio Design (Practice 1). The project, programme or portfolio design is a ‘charcoal sketch’ that defines the high-level choices for this project, programme or portfolio (e.g. make or buy, linear or iterative, possible funding or resourcing options, how to manage the project, programme or portfolio). In the other technical competence elements, each of these basic decisions will be specified, implemented and managed. 

Instructional Objectives 

• Acknowledge, prioritise and review success criteria
• Review, apply and exchange lessons learned from and with other projects, programmes or portfolios
• Determine complexity and its consequences for the approach
• Select and review the overall project management approach (Design the project execution architecture)