Portfolio management: focusing on the whole

Any project can be well defended. Together, they are too many. Portfolio management is the art of choosing.

Portfolio management: managing the whole is the two-day training of the Supply Value Academy, in which program, portfolio, and line managers learn to manage a project and change portfolio: prioritize strategic contribution, realistically allocate capacity, and stop initiatives that no longer contribute anything. The training is intended for professionals with extensive experience and uses each participant’s own portfolio as a case study.

Why this training

Almost every organization has more projects than capacity. You know the result: everything is going on, nothing is getting done, and no one dares to stop working on that one project that has so much potential. Portfolio management is the honest discussion about this, with a method behind it.

For two days, you work on the management of your own portfolio: from a clear prioritization logic and capacity picture to the governance that ensures that decisions remain valid even when the winds of change blow.

You can do this afterwards

  • You present the portfolio honestly: all the initiatives, their strategic contribution and their capacity requirements.
  • You create a prioritization logic that is understandable, even to the owner of the project that is being dropped.
  • You divide capacity realistically and maintain the balance between ongoing operations and change.
  • You establish portfolio governance: rhythm, decision-making and the mandate to stop.

Target group

Portfolio and program managers, PMO leads, IV and transformation managers, and executives who manage the entire set of projects and changes in public and private organizations.

Prerequisites: Extensive experience with projects or programs; the Project Management in Practice training is a logical but not mandatory prerequisite.

Program

  • From project list to portfolio: what should be included, what should not be explicitly included
  • Prioritizing strategic contribution: criteria, weighting and discussing it
  • Capacity as a hard limit: the portfolio picture that makes overcommitment visible
  • Work session: your portfolio on one wall
  • Portfolio governance: rhythm, roles, and decision-making that allow choices to endure
  • Ending a career: Initiating a clean exit without losing face
  • The relationship with the annual plan and budget: the portfolio as a management tool
  • Your proposal for governance, reviewed by the group

Trainer

The training is given by program and portfolio managers from Supply Value who manage and improve portfolios for clients. They know the conversation about quitting from experience, including the times when it didn't work out.

Frequently asked questions

No. We use elements from common frameworks where they help, but the core is operational excellence: prioritization, capacity, and governance. That works in any methodological environment, agile or classic.

As a rule of thumb: once initiatives compete for the same people, portfolio management pays off. That can already be the case with ten projects. The training scales with the size of the department: the approach works for a departmental portfolio and for an organization-wide portfolio.

Practical information

€ 1,395 p.p., excluding VAT

€ 3,950 per group per day (up to 8 participants; hall and catering provided by the client)

Duration
2 training days
Next date
2 December 2027
Location
Zeist (office), another location by arrangement, or in-house at your location
Training format
Open registration and in-house
Level
Educational level
HBO/WO
Group size
Maximum of 12 participants
Study tax
Training days plus approximately 2 hours of preparation per day
Language
Dutch
Certificate
Certificate from the Supply Value Academy
Sector focus
All sectors
Bookability
Open registration according to the scheduled dates. Without scheduled dates, the training can only be booked in-house.
Included
Training material, certificate and lunch
Payment
Invoice immediately after registration; payment term 14 days

Prices exclude VAT · free cancellation up to 4 weeks in advance

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