School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Program Management
  • Unit Code

    MAN6303
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Richard HUGHES

Description

A program is a collection of change actions (projects and operational activities) grouped together to realise organisation-wide strategic benefits. One of the key differences between projects and programs is that a program will deliver resource and scheduling economies and organizational learning benefits that could not be achieved if projects are managed independently of each other. Programs themselves may be organised into diverse portfolios whose aim is to manage risk while achieving an overall desirable financial or strategic return. This unit will examine embedding program management in the organisational context, including engagement with the business, strategic business alignment and the challenges of multi-stakeholder management and resourcing.

This unit focuses on managing multiple projects as a program, including strategic alignment of portfolios, programs and projects. The management of program and portfolio-related risks, particularly those associated with interdependencies between projects will be highlighted.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse program issues and determine their impact on realising organisation-wide strategic benefits and change.
  2. Evaluate the major alternative methodologies used to manage programs and the considerations involved in choosing which methodology to use.
  3. Review inputs, tools and techniques and outputs related to the core program activities including strategy, leadership, governance, stakeholders and risk processes.
  4. Critique real-world programs to determine their impact on business transformation, political and societal change.

Unit Content

  1. Knowledge management within programs.
  2. Portfolio management.
  3. Program communications and information management.
  4. Program-related risks, particularly those associated with interdependencies between projects.
  5. Management of exceptions, slippage and issues of priority.
  6. Monitoring changes within the Program of projects.
  7. Developing and maintaining an environment which supports the Program's Project Managers.
  8. Establishing a Program Management Office.
  9. Establishing and managing the Program plan.
  10. The difference between Program and Project Management.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 2 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-campus students attend a weekly three hour seminar/laboratory over one semester.

Students studying in off campus mode will access the program via Blackboard and regular on line access is required. Students need to be actively engaged in the unit by reading the required readings, listening to any recorded lectures and participating in the tutorials and quizzes posted on the Blackboard.

All students will be required to undertake a range of activities outside of normal class hours. These activities are designed to provide opportunities for students to experiment with, and embed, new knowledge and skills. The material for this unit will be supplemented with regular industry speakers (where appropriate these will be recorded for off-campus students.)

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioPersonal Learning Portfolio50%
AssignmentGroup Assignment & Presentation50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioPersonal Learning Portfolio50%
AssignmentAssignment & Presentation50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Program Management
  • Unit Code

    MAN6303
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Richard HUGHES

Description

A program is a collection of change actions (projects and operational activities) grouped together to realise organisation-wide strategic benefits. One of the key differences between projects and programs is that a program will deliver resource and scheduling economies and organisational learning benefits that could not be achieved if projects are managed independently of each other. Programs themselves may be organised into diverse portfolios whose aim is to manage risk while achieving an overall desirable financial or strategic return. This unit will examine embedding program management in the organisational context, including engagement with the business, strategic business alignment and the challenges of multi-stakeholder management and resourcing.

This unit focuses on managing multiple projects as a program, including strategic alignment of portfolios, programs and projects. The management of program and portfolio-related risks, particularly those associated with interdependencies between projects will be highlighted.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse program issues and determine their impact on realising organisation-wide strategic benefits and change.
  2. Evaluate the major alternative methodologies used to manage programs and the considerations involved in choosing which methodology to use.
  3. Review inputs, tools and techniques and outputs related to the core program activities including strategy, leadership, governance, stakeholders and risk processes.
  4. Critique real-world programs to determine their impact on business transformation, political and societal change.

Unit Content

  1. Knowledge management within programs.
  2. Portfolio management.
  3. Program communications and information management.
  4. Program-related risks, particularly those associated with interdependencies between projects.
  5. Management of exceptions, slippage and issues of priority.
  6. Monitoring changes within the Program of projects.
  7. Developing and maintaining an environment which supports the Program's Project Managers.
  8. Establishing a Program Management Office.
  9. Establishing and managing the Program plan.
  10. The difference between Program and Project Management.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 2 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

This Unit will be delivered with Technology Enhanced Learning, integrating face-to-face and digital learning experiences. Students will be required to access and use a variety of digital learning materials to prepare for and engage in class discussion and activities.
Guest lecturers with program management expertise will present to students in either on-campus sessions or via structured webinars.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline Quiz10%
PortfolioPersonal Learning Portfolio50%
AssignmentGroup Assignment & Presentation40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline Quiz10%
PortfolioPersonal Learning Portfolio50%
AssignmentAssignment & Presentation40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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