Managing multiple projects without a structured approach can lead to resource bottlenecks, misalignment with business goals, and wasted investment. Project Portfolio Management (PPM) ensures that organisations prioritise the right projects, allocate resources efficiently, and align project execution with strategic objectives.
This course takes a hands-on approach to mastering PPM. Through real-world case studies—including NASA’s Mars missions and high-stakes corporate portfolio balancing—you’ll learn how to apply PPM frameworks, optimise project selection, and manage risks at the portfolio level. This course equips you with the skills to drive business value and improve decision-making across multiple projects.
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7 Hours of Learning
12 Weeks of Full Access
6 Modules, 18+ Topics
Certificate of Completion
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Expert-led Video Lessons
Online Quizzes & Exercises
$300
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Project selection is the strategic process of evaluating, comparing, and choosing projects that best align with an organization’s goals and available resources. It involves systematically assessing potential projects against established criteria to determine which ones will deliver the greatest value and support long-term business objectives.
Effective project selection is crucial because it ensures organizations invest their limited resources in the right initiatives. It helps align project portfolios with strategic goals, maximizes return on investment, reduces waste, minimizes operational risks, and improves overall business performance. Without proper project selection, organizations may pursue conflicting or low-value projects that drain resources without delivering meaningful results.
Organizations face several challenges in project selection, including resource constraints that limit the number of projects they can pursue, competing stakeholder priorities that create conflicting demands, lack of standardized evaluation criteria, insufficient or unreliable project data, political pressures influencing decisions, and difficulty accurately predicting future outcomes and benefits.
Project selection methods fall into three main categories: Financial methods such as Return on Investment (ROI), Net Present Value (NPV), and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) that focus on monetary returns; Non-financial methods including scoring models, weighted decision matrices, and decision trees that consider qualitative factors; and Hybrid approaches that combine both financial and strategic criteria to provide a more comprehensive evaluation framework.
Organizations can improve their project selection process by establishing clear selection criteria tied to strategic objectives, implementing standardized evaluation frameworks, involving key stakeholders in the decision-making process, using reliable data and realistic assumptions, regularly reviewing and updating selection criteria, maintaining transparency throughout the process, and continuously monitoring selected projects to validate decisions and improve future selection processes.
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