ISO 21504: Project and Programme Portfolio Management Training

Course Description

ISO 21504: Project and Programme Portfolio Management Training develops practical capability to manage project and programme portfolios using ISO 21504 principles for strategic alignment, selection, balance, governance, performance, and benefits. The learning path begins with managing portfolio purpose, governance, strategy, roles, and decision rights and planning identification, categorization, evaluation, selection, and prioritization, connecting requirements and principles with governance, evidence, stakeholder decisions, and measurable outcomes.

Applied work is framed around an organization choosing and governing multiple projects and programmes under constrained resources and changing strategy. Learners then progress through coordinating balancing, resources, risks, dependencies, change, and delivery oversight and reviewing performance, benefits, reporting, review, termination, and improvement, producing portfolio governance charter, portfolio selection and priority register, portfolio balance and oversight pack, and portfolio performance and improvement report.

By completion, participants can interpret the subject, perform the relevant workflows, evaluate evidence, communicate supported conclusions, and hand over actions with clear ownership, monitoring, and follow-up.

What You Will Learn

• Define portfolio concepts using portfolio governance scope for accountable decisions.
• Connect portfolio roles through portfolio governance ownership for clear responsibilities.
• Assess initiative identification using portfolio governance priority before selecting actions.
• Validate prioritization requirements through portfolio governance evidence with approved criteria.
• Implement portfolio balancing using portfolio governance control with assigned roles.
• Test capacity constraints through portfolio governance scenarios while recording exceptions.
• Review portfolio indicators against portfolio governance assurance to identify corrections.
• Finalize continual improvement through portfolio governance improvement with named owners.

SkillDynamo Training Approach

Learners build portfolio governance, selection criteria, prioritization, balancing, reporting, and benefits oversight. Delivery includes instructor demonstrations, guided exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, and a final improvement plan.