Specialist Certificate · Master's level · CPS-19

Programmes, Portfolios and Project Governance

For: Experienced project managers, programme managers, members of project management offices and managers in public or private planning departments who make decisions across sets of projects.

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Organisation over 20 weeks

Four 5-week blocks (4 weeks of classes, 1 week of assessment). The two course units are taken unchanged from the original degree: same content, same assessments.

Blocks 1 and 2 (weeks 1 to 10): PGM 531 — Programme and Portfolio Management
Blocks 3 and 4 (weeks 11 to 20): GVP 533 — Project Governance and Performance Management

PGM 531 - Programme and Portfolio Management

Move from managing a project to steering sets of projects: coordinating a programme so that it delivers its benefits, and arbitrating a portfolio so that the organisation invests in the right projects.

Learning outcomes

Structure a programme and manage its interdependencies in line with the guidance of the ISO 21503:2022 standard.
Develop and assess a benefits realisation plan for a programme.
Assess and prioritise a project portfolio in line with the guidance of the ISO 21504:2022 standard, and propose reasoned decisions.
Design the role and organisation of a project management office.

Content

Guidance of the ISO 21503:2022 standard on programme management; programme and component projects, interdependencies, roadmap.
Benefits: identification, mapping, measurement, transfer to operations and follow-up after project closure.
Guidance of the ISO 21504:2022 standard on portfolio management; inventory, prioritisation criteria, balance, organisational capacity.
Multi-criteria analysis and decision-making; suspending or stopping a project.
Project management office: remit, positioning, tools, indicators.
Public programmes and portfolios: link with multi-year public investment programming, to be studied on the texts in force; translation of the “New Deal Technologique” strategy into programmes, to be studied on the published documents.

Assessment: Project (60%): portfolio decision file, proposed organisation of a project management office and benefits realisation plan for a programme. Defence before a simulated committee (40%). Same arrangements on campus and online; the online defence takes place in a virtual classroom.

GVP 533 - Project Governance and Performance Management

Give future programme or portfolio managers the means to design governance that decides quickly and is accountable, and to manage performance on the basis of reliable data, including with the support of artificial intelligence.

Learning outcomes

Design the governance of a project, programme or portfolio in line with the guidance of the ISO 21505:2017 standard.
Build an overall performance management system incorporating economic, social, environmental and digital indicators.
Use project data and decision-support tools to produce a consolidated dashboard.
Critically and ethically assess the contribution and limitations of artificial intelligence in project management.

Content

Guidance of the ISO 21505:2017 standard on project, programme and portfolio governance; governance bodies, delegations, escalation rules.
Accountability, transparency, integrity: conflicts of interest, project audit and control.
Overall performance: non-financial indicators, social responsibility according to the ISO 26000:2010 standard, environmental requirements for projects to be studied on loi n°2023-15 portant Code de l'environnement (Environmental Code).
Management data: quality, consolidation, portfolio dashboards, visualisation.
Artificial intelligence for project management: forecasting, anomaly detection, writing assistance; biases and limitations specific to project data, the general rules on declared use being covered in NUA 415.
Protection of personal data and confidentiality of project information (loi n°2008-12, Personal Data Protection Act).

Assessment: Project (60%): governance charter and performance management system for a programme. Practical test (40%): consolidated dashboard and critical note on the use of a decision-support tool. Same arrangements on campus and online.

Career opportunities

Programme manager, project portfolio manager, project management office officer.

At your own pace: the self-paced pathway

In a class, this certificate takes 20 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.

Estimate how long my pathway will take

12 h / week · 240 hours in total

Duration: about 20 weeks
Estimated end: 20 weeks after you start
Examination: Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 20 weeks after you start
Payment: In 1 to 5 monthly instalments, as you choose

An indicative estimate, for a start today and 240 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 60 weeks (about 14 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.

Admission

Bachelor's degree in a compatible field and practical experience of project management, or equivalent experience assessed on application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.

The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Master's degree in Project Management, within a period set by the certificate regulations.