What makes a project manager valuable in today’s market? It’s business acumen and leadership. The marketplace needs project managers who speak the language of business—and that’s finance. This program will teach you how to build solid business cases for your projects; how to use relevant finance and accounting principles in planning and making decisions with business leaders, and how to use financial management tools to run your projects like a business. Throughout the seminar you will work with a simulated project as your team uses business models to synthesize the financial data.

Audience: Project managers, project portfolio managers, PMO directors, project leaders and program managers.

Learning Objectives:

• Understanding how projects get started
• Best practices for project business cases
• Practicing business case development
• Speaking the financial language your executives understand
• Working with the basics of project-related finance
• Handling the financials of change
• Communicating progress and performance from a financial perspective