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We are very pleased to announce that from November AFA will be offering OGC’s newest product - Accredited P3O Training.

AFA will be delivering an open schedule of P3O training courses, with our first course scheduled for 25 - 27 November in Cambridge. Portfolio, Programme and Project Office (P3O) is the latest guidance from the Office of Government Commerce. This new offering - aligned to OGC's PRINCE2, MSP, and M_o_R methodologies - brings together for the first time in one place principles, processes and techniques to facilitate effective portfolio, programme and project management through enablement, challenge and support structures. These structures also bridge the gap between strategy/policy makers and the delivery arm of an organisation. P3 Offices may exist under several different names e.g., Portfolio Office, Centre of Excellence, Enterprise or Corporate Programme Office.

The purpose of the Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O) guidance is to provide universally applicable guidance that will enable individuals and organisations to successfully establish, develop and maintain appropriate business support structures that will allow:

• Informed senior management decision making on strategic alignment, prioritisation, risk management, optimisation of resource etc to successfully deliver their business objectives (portfolio management)
• Identification and realisation of business outcomes and benefits via programmes
• Successful delivery of project outputs that enable benefits within time, cost and quality restraints

At present only the P3O Foundation qualification will be available, however we shall be offering the Practitioner as soon as it is released by the APM Group, in the interim we are able to offer in-house P3O Awareness Courses and Senior Management Seminars.

For further P3O information and P3O course bookings please visit the new training section on our website.