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Project Portfolio Management
Project Portfolio Management Microcredential Badge

When you complete this Project Portfolio Management microcredential, you learn how an effective project portfolio aligns to your organization’s strategic goals and drives the project charter. 

You will experience case studies that illustrate ways to proactively manage project and program stakeholder expectations, as well as how projects are effectively initiated and planned. 

Learn key tools and techniques that facilitate the planning process to establish “balanced” project plans from which to benchmark, track and govern project team performance.

This microcredential is an amazing opportunity to gain relevant knowledge that you can apply to real-world situations - at school, throughout your career, and anytime else in your life! Don't miss out on this chance to learn more and strengthen your project management skills in a unique Clarkson way.”

Miles Compani '23 BS in Engineering and Management

Course Details

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Project Portfolio Management micro-credential is the first of five in the Strategic Project Management series of microcredentials offered by Clarkson University. 

The Project Portfolio Management micro-credential consists of five modules (or chapters): 

  • Start Here (Introduction)
  • Module 1 - Requirements Management
  • Module 2 - Portfolio Case Study
  • Module 3 - Managing Expectations
  • Module 4 - Project Planning. 

Within each module is an interactive lesson, instructional resources, e.g., PDF articles, webpages, or videos, and a multiple-choice exam.
 

Earners will be assessed via several multiple-choice exams and one comprehensive exam. Exams are graded immediately and multiple attempts are allowed.

  • Score 80% or higher on all module-level quizzes.
  • Score 80% or higher on the final comprehensive exam.

Enroll NowAvailable to current students, faculty & staff.

  Skills

Project Management Tools, Techniques, Scope/Time/Risk Management competencies, Problem solving, Leadership

  Delivery

Asynchronous online

  Schedule

Ongoing with continuous enrollment

  Prerequisites

None. First of five in the Strategic Project Management Series

  Completion

10 hours

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Sample Lesson

View this one-minute presentation to gain an overview of this learning experience. Step through the key points you will learn regarding managing a project portfolio.

Watch the Project Portfolio Management Sample Lesson

Meet Your Instructor

Michael M. Bissonette (MS, MBA, PfMP) is a highly successful engineer-turned-businessman and is considered both a thought-leader and subject matter expert in Portfolio, Program and Project Management within several diverse industries. His work experience spans over 40 years of product development and organizational management, including executive positions in large Fortune 500 companies. He is an author of two books on the subject of “Strategic Project Management” (the first is titled: Project Risk Management: A Practical Implementation Approach, a best-seller published by the Project Management Institute, Inc., in 2016, and the second was recently published in 2021 – titled Achieving Epic Business Results with Strategic Project Management). Mike is an instructor (at his alma mater, Clarkson University) in the MS-EM curriculum. He is an entrepreneur (Founder of RTConfidence, Inc. – a SaaS [Software as a Services] company), developing Chrono™, the most advanced and affordable integrated IMS (Integrated Master Schedule)/SRA (Schedule Risk Analysis)/ESM (Earned Schedule Management) SaaS Tool on the market. Mike has been a guest speaker at numerous events around the world. He has always been a world-wide training asset within all the organizations he’s worked at. And he has been engaged on occasion to help facilitate enterprise-level transformational change.

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