Portfolio & Project Manager New
Creating Alignment:
an Agile Pain Point Solution
A practical Kanban-based approach to managing projects and portfolios with greater visibility, better alignment, and smooth flow of value delivery.
A single-course credential.
CertificateCredentialAlignment in practice.
Organizations rarely struggle because they lack projects. They struggle because they have too many competing initiatives, unclear priorities, overloaded teams, and difficulty connecting day-to-day delivery with strategic goals.
Portfolio & Project Manager provides a practical way to visualize demand, understand capacity, make better prioritization decisions, and strengthen the connection between strategy and execution.
Rather than relying on rigid planning or adding another layer of process, participants learn how Kanban principles and practices can expose competing priorities, identify bottlenecks, improve decision-making, and create a more realistic view of what the organization can deliver.
Who Portfolio & Project Manager is for.
You lead the portfolio.
- You are a leader responsible for connecting strategic goals with the work the organization can realistically deliver.
You coordinate projects.
- You are a project manager, portfolio manager, or coordinator working across teams and initiatives.
You need realistic delivery.
- You want capacity constraints, competing priorities, and delivery risk to be visible before commitments are made.
What you will learn.
Practical Kanban principles and practices for managing portfolio-level demand, decisions, and alignment without adding another layer of process.
Visualize portfolio demand
Make projects, initiatives, and portfolio-level demand visible in one practical view.
Connect strategy to delivery
Link strategic priorities with the work that is actually being delivered.
Improve alignment
Create stronger alignment across teams, projects, and organizational stakeholders.
See capacity constraints
Recognize overcommitment and make capacity constraints visible.
Set better policies
Establish clearer policies for selecting, prioritizing, and managing initiatives.
Use flow information
Use flow-based information to support more effective project and portfolio decisions.
Address Agile pain points
Identify and address poor alignment and competing priorities before they disrupt delivery.
Apply Kanban pragmatically
Apply Kanban practices without disruptive restructuring or replacing existing project-management approaches.
Plan your Portfolio & Project Manager course.
The class is delivered as three half-day sessions, combining practical concepts with examples and application to real-world project and portfolio environments.
Course format.
Three half-day sessions with practical concepts, examples, and application.
Prerequisites.
Basic knowledge of Kanban is recommended. Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP), Flow Manager, and Kanban Management Professional (KMP) would all be good foundations, but none are required.
Completion and credential.
Successfully complete the course to receive the associated Portfolio Manager credential from Kanban University.
A single-course credential.
Portfolio & Project Manager is a practical next step for organizations that want to move beyond team-level agility and create better alignment between what they want to achieve and what their delivery systems can realistically accomplish.
Certificate of completionPortfolio Manager credential