5 TH & 6 TH

MARCH
2024
ROYALE
CHULAN
HOTEL
KUALA LUMPUR,
MALAYSIA

6th Masterclass with Laurie Bowman!

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YOUR EMINENT
COURSE LEADER Successful Project
organizations allocate their
limited resources to the most
important projects while
rejecting projects that are good
but not good enough. They use
project portfolio management
to make and implement these
Laurie Bowman
Highly sought-after Project Expert, AICD FIEAust difficult project selection
CPEng EngExec NER APEC Engineer IntPE (Aus).
Consistently rated 9 & 10 out of 10 points in our decisions.
program evaluations

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8 Core Competencies ROYALE

that will be addressed

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01 02 03 04
Strategic Alignment Portfolio Planning Resource Performance
and Organizational and Prioritization Allocation Monitoring
Values Techniques Effectively allocate Establish performance
Align project portfolios Use various methods and manage metrics, data utilization, &
with organizational goals, to plan and prioritize resources, optimizing reporting mechanisms to
values, and culture. projects, considering resource utilization track and assess portfolio
Incorporate culture, human factors, risk while considering health. Explore culture,
sustainability, risk management, and workforce planning sustainability, risk
management, and value alignment with and sustainability. management, and value
creation in alignment. organizational values. creation in performance
monitoring.

05 06 07 08
Adaptation and Human Factors Effective Data and Best Practices
Optimization Management Technology Usage Gain insights from
Continuously assess Understand and Utilize data and real-world case
and adapt the project manage human factors technology effectively studies and best
portfolio to ensure within project and in project portfolios to practices for
alignment with change portfolios to improve decision- successful PPM
organizational objectives enhance decision-
while optimizing value. making and optimize implementation with
making and performance. a focus on culture,
Emphasize culture,
collaboration.
sustainability, risk sustainability, risk
management, and value management, and
creation in portfolio value creation.
adaptation.

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is very valuable for large organizations or

Course those with a significant number of projects and programs. By implementing PPM
practices, organizations can enhance their project success rates, improve resource

Overview allocation and achieve better overall strategic outcomes.

This comprehensive 2-day workshop on Project Portfolio Management (PPM)
provides professionals with the knowledge and tools needed to effectively
manage, prioritize, and optimize a portfolio of projects aligned with organizational
objectives. In today's dynamic business environment, organizations need to make
strategic decisions about which projects to undertake and how to allocate
resources efficiently. PPM enables you to align your project portfolio with your
strategic goals, maximize resource utilization, and deliver the most value to your
organization while fostering a culture of innovation and sustainability.

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Benefits Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be
equipped with the knowledge and tools needed to drive
of this strategic decision-making, optimize project portfolios,
enhance organizational performance, foster a culture of
ROYALE
CHULAN
workshop sustainability and innovation, effectively manage risk, and HOTEL
leverage data and technology for project portfolio success. KUALA LUMPUR,
MALAYSIA
Join us in this interactive and practical workshop to master
the art of Project Portfolio Management while addressing
human factors, data utilization, and technology effectively in
line with your organization's strategic goals and values.

COURSE OUTLINE
DAY

Strategic Alignment and Portfolio Selection 01

(MODULES 1- 4)

MODULE
1 MODULE
2
Introduction to Project Portfolio Strategic Alignment and Organisational
Management (PPM) Values
• Understanding the fundamentals and • Aligning project portfolios with
importance of PPM. organizational goals, values, and culture.
• Key concepts, benefits, and challenges. • Creating a strategic framework for project
• Cultivating a culture of effective portfolio selection
management. • Workforce planning for project alignment.
• Embedding sustainability and value
creation in portfolio alignment.

MODULE
3 MODULE
4
Portfolio Planning and Prioritization Establishing a Balanced Portfolio with
Techniques Value Targets and Metrics
• Planning and prioritizing projects. • Defining a balance of portfolio targets.
• Incentivising innovation. • KPIs and Metrics for tracking value creation,
• Decision criteria and scoring models. risk and sustainability.
• Portfolio risk management and contingency • Improving learning and performance while
planning reducing errors with a historical project
database.

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DAY
02 Execution, Monitoring, and Optimization
(MODULES 5–8)

MODULE
5 MODULE
6
Project Portfolio Execution and Delivery Resource Planning and Allocation
• Integrating project targets and metrics with • Effective resource planning, allocation and
portfolio targets and metrics. development strategies.
• Managing risks, opportunities, • Coordinating change initiatives and impacts
dependencies, and project to people.
interrelationships. • Data management for effective resource
• Fostering a culture of agility, innovation and allocation.
sustainability in project execution.

MODULE
7 MODULE
8
Portfolio Performance Monitoring and Portfolio Optimization, Human Factors,
Reporting and Data Utilization
• Establishing project-level targets and • Continuous assessment, adaptation and
metrics. optimisation of the project portfolio.
• Performance monitoring and reporting for • Overcoming human errors in portfolio
sustainability and risk management. management by using data.
• Management of change • Portfolio maturity assessments and
• Integrating reporting requirements in the organizational learning. Sustaining a culture
supply chain of sustainability, value creation, and risk
management.

Case MODULE 3
Portfolio Risk
MODULE 7
Project Portfolio
MODULE 8
Transformation
Studies Assessment to inform Maturity Assessment Project Portfolio
project planning and for improved Project Culture Change and
prioritisation: Performance: Reporting Initiative:
Analyse a case study to Dive into a how Learn from a real-
understand effective maturity assessments world example of
risk management can helped a complex how cultural change
be used to plan and portfolio of energy and reporting
prioritise projects. transmission projects improvements can
to improve impact transport
performance and project portfolio
reduce risk. success.

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Group Activities 2024

MODUEL 1 MODULE 6
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"Secret Recipe" activity. Workforce Planning Upgrade Project - HOTEL
Participants engage in a scenario-based KUALA LUMPUR,
MODULE 2 activity where they take on the planning MALAYSIA
for an internal optimization project.
Creating a Values Map, engage in a
creative exercise to define and express
MODULE 7
core values that drive project success.
Explore the potential of AI-driven
MODULE 3 prompts for project portfolio
performance monitoring and control.
Project Prioritization Challenge

MODULE 8
MODULE 4
"Shark Tank" activity participants work
Establishing Portfolio Targets and Metrics
in groups to develop presentations
summarizing key learnings from the
MODULE 5 workshop and how they plan to apply
Innovation Spotlight explores real-world them in their workplaces.
examples of innovation within project
portfolio execution & discusses how these
innovations contributed to project success.

Workshop 09.00 am – 10.30 am Session 1/Session 5

Timing 10.30 am – 10.50 am Coffee Break
FOR DAYS 1 & 2 10.50 am – 01.00 pm Session 2/Session 6
01.00 pm – 02.00 pm Networking Lunch
02.00 pm – 03.30 pm Session 3/Session 7
03.30 pm – 03.50 pm Coffee Break
03.50 pm – 05.00 pm Session 4/Session 8

Training Methodology
Laurie provides you with a blend of academic concepts and practical
tools gained from his research at the University of Queensland and
his 30 years of experience in engineering and management roles of
complex engineering and transformation projects. This course
includes key concepts, case studies and hands-on exercises with
audience participation. Practical tips and tools will be provided so
that after the program ends you can take the concept to reality.

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Laurie Bowman ROYALE
AICD FIEAust CPEng EngExec NER APEC
Engineer IntPE(Aus)
CHULAN
HOTEL
KUALA LUMPUR,
MALAYSIA

Laurie Bowman is passionate about generating value for shareholders and communities through
project planning and stakeholder engagement. He is an advisor and accredited trainer with Synchrony
Projects, where his focus is on working with clients to achieve capability improvement in project
planning, risk and performance management resulting in successful project, program, portfolio and
organisation outcomes.

Laurie has 30 years of experience in engineering and management roles on complex multidiscipline
engineering and construction projects and facilitates training and certification preparation workshops
on project planning, risk, stakeholder and performance management for projects, programs and
portfolios. Complimenting his technical skills, Laurie is currently serving as Director at Large with PMI
Queensland and has previously served on the board of the Association for the Advancement of Cost
Engineering (AACE) International as the International Director for Australasia and Pacific Rim. He is a
chartered engineer, has been awarded as an engineering executive and is a master practitioner of
Neuro Linguistic Programming. He is a member of the Standards Australia technical committee for
many Portfolio and Project Management standards on project planning, risk and performance
management. He is a graduate of the AICD Company Directors course, has a master's degree in
business administration, a master’s degree in commercial law, a bachelor's degree in engineering
and has undertaken extensive study in the fields of risk management and systems leadership.

Recent feedback from similar workshops

delivered by Laurie
“ “
We all enjoyed your interactive Nicely interactive discussion.
delivery method.
Manager, SDO Engineering, Sime Darby Plantation “
Senior Manager, Contract Management, TNB “
The workshop was very engaging.
My knowledge has improved in
all areas and I see how they are HeiTech Padu Bhd, Management Services, Project Director“
linked together.
General Manager, KDEB Waste Management Sdn Bhd “ Extremely informative.

Konsortium URW, Project Implementation, Site Manager “

Thank you very much for the
good course and I’m sure it will
Well organized, good content
help me going forward.
and delivery.
VP Operation, Uda Land
Senior Executive, Mass Rapid Transit Corp

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Partial list of firms that have MARCH
2024
benefitted from Laurie’s training
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• Engineers Australia • TNB, Malaysia CHULAN
• Department of Defence, Australia • KDEB Waste Management, HOTEL
Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR,
• Snowy Hydro (Energy), MALAYSIA
Australia • MRT Corp, Malaysia
• Transport for NSW • Uda Land
• Air Services Australia • Sime Darby Plantation
• Origin Energy • Landasan Lumayan Sdn Bhd
• Austal Limited (Shipbuilding) • O3 Corporate Services Sdn Bhd
• Nippon Telegraph and Telephone • Konsortium URW Sdn Bhd
(Telecommunication) • Teraju Bumiputera Corporation
• Boeing • HeiTech Padu Bhd
• Northparkes, Australia (Mining) • And Many More
• The University of Queensland

FROM THE FOLLOWING

INDUSTRIES
• Banking and Finance

Who this course is for •

•
Constructions
Architecture firms
This workshop is designed for project managers, • Manufacturing
portfolio managers, senior executives, and • Automotive
professionals responsible for managing project
• Oil & Gas
portfolios within their organizations.
• Transportation Industry
• Directors of Project Management Office (PMO) • IT & Telecommunication
• Project Portfolio Managers • Utilities
• Project Managers • Education
• IT Project Managers • Government agencies
• Any Managers involved in managing multiple • Government-linked companies
small and large projects • And any relevant industries that
manage multiple projects

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