Course overview
This course will provide students with an advanced understanding of a body of knowledge in respect to portfolio and program management as applied in professional practice. Students will study advanced topics in the domain of portfolio and program management including: inter-relationships between portfolio, program, project, and organisational management; program management performance domains; program strategy alignment, benefits management and stakeholder engagement; program governance, program life cycle management, portfolio management and organisational strategy; the role of the portfolio manager; and the role of the PMO in portfolio management.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate an advanced understanding of knowledge that includes recent, global developments within the field of portfolio and program management and its application in professional practice.
- Investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories and to apply established theories to the portfolio and program management practice.
- Evaluate, justify and interpret portfolio and program management methodologies and theoretical propositions for decision-making in professional practice.
- Apply advanced individual and team skills that entail application of local and international perspectives.
- Reflect critically on theory and professional practice or scholarship in the area of contemporary Portfolio and Program Management.