Description

A focused course, tailored for you

IT Services Director's Portfolio-Authorship Playbook

How a Director of Projects at an IT services firm authors a portfolio the firm protects when delivery restructures around AI augmentation.

When the firm restructures around AI augmentation, Director of Projects seats read either as cost-of-coverage or as portfolio-authorship authority.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

IT services firms restructuring around AI augmentation reorganise Director of Projects functions in the same cycle. Directors who continue running 'project portfolio work' without a published portfolio authority are read by the deck as cost-of-coverage. Directors with a portfolio-authorship artefact read as the seat that connects delivery outcomes to financial performance.

The Directors who survive own a portfolio-strategy document with measurable margin and outcomes, an account-relationship map BD leadership cites, and a weekly portfolio-state artefact the practice principal forwards.

The course covers the three artefacts and the 90-day path to portfolio-authorship framing. Plus a hand-built implementation playbook against your real portfolio.

What you walk away with

A portfolio-strategy document with measurable margin and outcomes.
An account-relationship map BD leadership cites.
A weekly portfolio-state artefact the practice principal forwards.
A clean translation from generic Director of Projects to portfolio-authorship authority.
A defensible answer when the restructure asks which portfolio the seat owns.
A 90-day plan to land the framing.

The 12 modules

Module 1. Reading AI-augmentation restructure for Director-level implications

AI-augmentation restructure at IT services firms reorganises Director of Projects functions in the same operating-model cycle. The diagnostic for the Director layer specifically. What 'AI-augmentation' means at Director level inside the firm.

Module 2. Cost-of-coverage vs portfolio-authorship authority

Two structurally different framings of the same Director seat. Cost-of-coverage reads as overhead; portfolio-authorship reads as the leadership the firm protects through restructure. The three artefacts that mark the shift.

Module 3. Your portfolio-strategy document

Construct the portfolio-strategy document with measurable margin and outcomes. Revenue impact, margin-defence, expansion pipeline. The document the practice principal opens first in the next portfolio review.

Module 4. Account-relationship map

Map your top 20 accounts with decision-makers, executive sponsors, expansion potential, succession risk. The map BD leadership cites by name. The standard the practice adopts.

Module 5. Weekly portfolio-state artefact for the principal

Format, cadence, content of the weekly portfolio-state artefact the practice principal forwards. Three worked examples for IT services Director portfolios at different stages of the restructure.

Module 6. Working with BD, capture, and account leadership

Director work overlaps BD, capture, and account leadership during restructure. The collaboration pattern that strengthens portfolio-authorship positioning.

Module 7. Margin-defence story

Margin is what finance reads first in the AI-augmentation review. The story that connects Director activity to margin outcomes. Worked examples of three margin-defence narratives.

Module 8. Cross-portfolio leverage

Reusable Director-level practices that strengthen authorship across multiple portfolios. Account-strategy cadence, milestone framing, escalation rhythm. The patterns that compound across the practice.

Module 9. AI augmentation as accelerator

AI augmentation can accelerate Director-level work or absorb it. The work split that uses AI to strengthen portfolio narrative rather than replace Director attention. Worked examples of the new operating model.

Module 10. Scope statement: Director vs Senior Director / Portfolio Lead

Two overlapping seats. The scope statement that puts you in the Senior Director or Portfolio Lead track defensibly.

Module 11. Promotion mechanics inside IT services delivery leadership

Internal path inside IT services delivery leadership. The promotion artefact. The two reviewers who matter.

Module 12. Your 90-day move to portfolio-authorship framing

Day-by-day plan. Portfolio-strategy document v1 in week one. Relationship map drafted by week two. Weekly portfolio-state artefact running by week three. Principal conversation in month two. Senior Director conversation in month three.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

Modules 1 and 2 cover the diagnostic.

Modules 3 to 5 produce the three artefacts.

Modules 6 to 9 cover the cross-function cadence, margin defence, leverage, and AI accelerator.

Modules 10 to 12 cover scope, promotion, and 90-day execution.

What you get with this course

The 12-module course delivered as text plus downloadable templates.
Templates for the portfolio-strategy document, the relationship map, and the weekly artefact.
A hand-built implementation playbook generated for your specific portfolio.
Three worked examples of the weekly artefact.
Scripted talking points for the principal conversation.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Day 1: Portfolio-strategy scaffold drafted.

Week 1: Strategy v1 written; relationship map v1 drafted.

Month 1: Weekly artefact landing with principal; portfolio-authorship conversation scheduled.

Before and after

Before

You run a portfolio. Projects deliver. The restructure is being discussed.

After

Your portfolio-strategy document is what the principal opens first. The relationship map is what BD cites. The weekly artefact lands with the principal. The Senior Director conversation is scheduled.

What happens if you do not address this

AI-augmentation restructures redistribute Director-level portfolios within one or two cycles.

Who it is for

For Directors of Projects, Senior Directors, and Portfolio Leads at IT services firms in AI-augmentation restructure cycles.

Who this is NOT for. Junior PMs and senior managers. Directors at end-customer firms (different operating model). Directors at firms not in active restructure.

How it arrives

Text-based course via LMS, plus downloadable templates and the hand-built implementation playbook.

Time investment. Roughly 12 hours of reading and 15 to 20 hours producing your real artefacts.

Why $199 is the right number

Internal IT services Director training is general. External delivery communities cover technique. A senior Portfolio Lead mentor would cover maybe four of these 12 modules informally. $199 buys the focused playbook plus the implementation document for your real portfolio.

FAQ

Will the principal actually forward my weekly artefact?

Module 5 is built around the format principals forward.

What if my portfolio is split across practices?

Module 3 covers that case.

What is in the implementation playbook for me specifically?

A draft portfolio-strategy document; a draft relationship map; a 90-day plan with conversations against your principal.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.