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Program and Portfolio Management
Postgraduate | CUR-PRM560 | 2019
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Create a comprehensive organisational plan, taking your cue from strategic management frameworks. Negotiate issues that can arise during a project’s governance process. Learn to navigate the requirements of stakeholders when managing a portfolio.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Program and Portfolio Management
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- develop an organisational strategic plan using strategic management models
- create a benefits management plan for an authentic project or program, utilizing benefits management theory
- evaluate the governance process within an existing contemporary project.
- Introduction to Strategic Management (SM)
- SM: mission stakeholders, social responsibility
- SM: Competitive advantage
- SM: Internal strategic analysis
- SM: Innovation
- SM: Globalisation
- Program Management Themes
- Benefits Management
- Program Governance & Standards
- Stakeholder Management
- Portfolio Management
- Portfolio Management 2
All projects, programs and portfolios exist within a strategic context. The organisational strategic management process is reviewed. The tools, techniques and process of program and portfolio management processes in terms of benefits management, stakeholder management and governance are explored, evaluated and applied.
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- Report (25%)
- Essay (40%)
- Case Study (35%)
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Entry requirements
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Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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