• How to develop viable portfolio and pharmaceutical value processes
• How to develop and use performance metrics for pharmaceutical development projects and for portfolios of development projects
• Why performance metrics are needed and their value at the project and portfolio levels
• How performance metrics contribute to improved business processes
• Metrics available for measuring project and portfolio performance
• Steps and challenges involved in the various stages of conducting and managing metrics
• How project-level goal-setting integrates into the portfolio metrics process to enable good decision making

• Project managers
• New portfolio managers and performance managers
• Project team leaders
• Project support office managers and staff
• Operational leads

Participants who complete this training should be able to:

• Define how corporate strategy is delivered through the portfolio of new and lifecycle drug projects; and correlate corporate strategy to portfolio and project strategies
• Discuss in general terms some performance metrics that might be valuable to measure for either projects or a portfolio of projects
• Explain the importance of managing the process of conducting metrics, communicating and implementing recommendations resulting from metrics information
• Support portfolio, strategy, and metrics/measurement processes effectively with sufficient knowledge to contribute to ongoing process improvement initiatives for these three processes