School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Program Management
  • Unit Code

    PRJ6406
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ross Harold YATES

Description

A program is a collection of component projects, sub-programs and operational change actions that are grouped together to create organisation-wide strategic benefits. This is part of a wider system of value creation. 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 may be organised into diverse portfolios with the aim of managing risk while achieving an overall desirable financial or strategic return. This unit examines the advantages of embedding program management in the organisational context, including engagement with the business, strategic business alignment and the challenges of multi-stakeholder management and resourcing. Students will critique the management of program related risks, with a focus on those associated with interdependencies between different projects.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will be offered in an accelerated mode over seven weeks.

Equivalent Rule

This unit is equivalent to MAN6303.

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 global approaches used to manage programs and the considerations involved in choosing which methodology to use.
  3. Assess drivers required to inform program decisions and deliver sustained competitive advantage including strategy, leadership, governance, ethical stakeholder engagement and the management of uncertainty.
  4. Critically review authentic program management issues using strategic program management concepts.

Unit Content

  1. Program management and governance fundamentals.
  2. Program strategy and benefits alignment.
  3. Program stakeholder engagement.
  4. Programs and people.
  5. Programs, budgets, schedules, and success.

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 School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationRecorded presentation10%
ReportProgram report50%
ExerciseWritten exercise and 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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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