Program and Portfolio Management
PostgraduateCUR-PRJM60052025
Previously CUR-PRM560
Course information for 2025 intake
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
- Enrol by
- 25 May 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 2 June 2025,
- 1 Dec 2025
- Price from
- $3,464
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
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 Program & Portfolio Management
- Dynamic aspects of the Strategy-making Process
- External Analysis: The Identification of Opportunities and Threats
- Internal Analysis: Distinctive Competencies, Competitive Advantage, and Profitability and Threats
- Building competitive advantage through Business-Level Strategy
- Strategy Implementation and Organisational Architecture
- Project, Program and Portfolio Management and Strategy Management
- Benefits Realisation Management (BRM)
- Organisational Governance and Ethics in PBOs
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Portfolio Management: Introduction, Process, Executing and Implementing
- Organisational Change Management
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
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- CUR-PRM-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma in Project Management
Elective
- OUA-PSU-GCE-2025 - Postgraduate Single Subjects
- CUR-PRM-MAS-2025 - Master of Science (Project Management)
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
CUR-PRM560-Program and Portfolio Management (no longer available)
Others
Pre-requisite: Successful completion of 50 credit points.
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Continual broadband access and email address
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Diploma in Project Management
PostgraduateCUR-PRM-GDI
PostgraduateOUA-PSU-GCE
Master of Science (Project Management)
PostgraduateCUR-PRM-MAS