This qualification helps you align projects and programmes with business objectives, optimise resources, and maximise ROI. The MoP framework offers a structured approach to creating and maintaining a balanced portfolio that supports growth and aligns with strategic goals. It is ideal for professionals in formal and informal portfolio management roles, from investment decision-making to project delivery and benefits realisation, as well as those involved in selecting and driving business change initiatives.
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Management of Portfolios (MoP)® training
Gain the skills to manage and optimise portfolios effectively, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and maximising value and impact.
Learn essential skills
Create meaningful change and deliver value with MoP
Why MoP?
Earning a MoP certification equips you with the essential skills needed to oversee and optimise a portfolio of projects and programmes. You’ll gain the expertise to align initiatives with strategic goals, maximise resource use, and ensure impactful, value-driven outcomes. This certification empowers you to make informed decisions that enhance organisational resilience, support sustainable growth, and drive measurable success.
What you gain
- Expertise in a globally recognised portfolio management framework
- Acquire skills to prioritise and manage multiple portfolios effectively
- Align projects with strategic business goals
- Optimise resources and reduce costs using proven tools and techniques
- Balance change initiatives with operational stability
- Improve decision-making to maximise ROI
- Enhance career opportunities with an in-demand certification
MoP certifications explained
MoP Foundation
MoP Practitioner
MoP Foundation & Practitioner
MoP Foundation
The Foundation certification provides a solid grasp of portfolio management fundamentals, including its principles, cycles, and practices. By the end of the course, you’ll understand the scope and benefits of portfolio management, its organisational context, implementation strategies, and evaluation methods. You'll also learn about the definition and delivery cycles, techniques for each practice, essential portfolio documents, and key roles within portfolio management, equipping you to manage portfolios effectively within any organisational setting.
MoP Practitioner
The Practitioner certification enables you to build and sustain effective portfolio management within an organisation. You’ll learn to define a compelling business case for senior management, plan implementation, evaluate and analyse documentation, and tailor MoP principles and practices to diverse organisational needs. The course covers key areas including strategy alignment, the portfolio delivery and definition cycles, and governance, ensuring you can implement, measure, and refine portfolio management practices to drive alignment with organisational goals and optimise resource utilisation.
MoP Foundation & Practitioner
The Foundation & Practitioner course is designed to deepen your skills in effective portfolio management, covering both theoretical frameworks and practical applications. You will acquire the skills to make informed portfolio management decisions, ensuring that projects and programmes align with organisational strategy and deliver tangible benefits. The course covers topics including risk management, resource allocation, and prioritisation, equipping you to effectively coordinate multiple initiatives and achieve maximum value.
Course options
Management of Portfolios (MoP)®
MoP® Foundation
Management of Portfolios (MoP)®
MoP® Practitioner
Management of Portfolios (MoP)®
MoP® Foundation & Practitioner
FAQs
The MoP course offers guidance to help you align projects with strategic goals and optimise resource allocation in portfolio management.
What is portfolio management?
Portfolio management is the process of strategically aligning an organisation’s projects and programmes with its overall goals to maximise value and achieve long-term success. It involves prioritising initiatives, optimising resource allocation, managing risks, and balancing change with stable operations. By viewing projects collectively, portfolio management enables informed decision-making that supports organisational growth and adaptability.
How long does the MoP course take?
You can take the Foundation and Practitioner qualifications separately or as a combined course. There are also different study options available:
- Foundation, the eLearning takes approximately 12 hours to complete, and you have access to the online learning materials for 12 months. The classroom and live virtual classroom options are both three-days in duration
- Practitioner, the classroom and live virtual classroom options are both two-days in duration
- Foundation & Practitioner, the classroom and live virtual classroom options are both five-days in duration. For the blended course, the Foundation eLearning takes approximately 12 hours to complete, and the Practitioner classroom or live virtual classroom is two-days in duration
Who is MoP aimed at?
MoP is designed for professionals involved in portfolio management or responsible for overseeing multiple projects and programmes. It’s ideal for portfolio managers, project and programme managers, senior executives, and decision-makers.
Career development & support
Continuing your learning journey
By obtaining a MoP certification, you’ll demonstrate that you have the knowledge and skills to make an impact within your organisation and drive change. This globally recognised qualification can also help you progress into leadership roles in portfolio management.
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There’s lots to consider when choosing a training course. We have a variety of study options, different payment methods, and optional extras such as exam resit services that you might want to add to your learning package. Our help centre has all the information you need to make the right choice. Plus, our helpful customer service team are always on hand to answer any questions.
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Your study options
eLearning
Do you prefer to learn at your own pace? Our interactive and engaging eLearning is the perfect self-study option, allowing you to move through resources and activities at a time that suits you.
Classroom
Our in-person classroom courses provide an interactive and collaborative learning environment, where you will benefit from the knowledge and passion our trainers bring to the subject.
Live virtual classroom
Our virtual courses provide the personal teaching experience of a classroom with the ease and flexibility of a virtual environment. All the benefits, without the travel!
Blended
Our blended courses combine eLearning with face-to-face training. Study the Foundation certification at your own pace and then use the Practitioner workshop to put the theory into practice.
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