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PPMP20012 Portfolio and Program Management
Portfolio and Program Management
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General Information

Overview

This unit aims to equip you with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to manage strategic initiatives within an organization effectively. This unit will introduce you to the concepts, principles, life cycles, and performance domains of portfolio and program management. This unit will specifically address how organisations apply management techniques to initiate, select, prioritise, and execute projects and programs within a portfolio contributing effectively to the organisational success through strategic alignment, resource optimisation, risk management, stakeholder engagement, benefits realisation, monitoring, and control. This unit will also introduce you to systems thinking concepts, principles, and tools that help solve complex problems within portfolios and programs.

Details

Career Level: Postgraduate
Unit Level: Level 9
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 10
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre Requisite Units: PPMP20007 & PPMP20009

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

Offerings For Term 2 - 2026

Brisbane
Melbourne
Online
Sydney

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

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Class and Assessment Overview

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Previous Student Feedback

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from Lecturer feedback.

Feedback

The number of assessments should be reduced from four to three to prevent over-assessment of students.

Recommendation

Propose a revision to the unit profile to redesign the assessment structure.

Feedback from SUTE, lecturers' feedback and reflection

Feedback

Although additional learning materials are provided to students via Teams each week, they rarely access or engage with content beyond what is included in the lecture slides.

Recommendation

It is recommended to incorporate blended learning into instructional materials and align these elements with assessments, as students tend to engage more with content that is formally evaluated.

Unit Learning Outcomes

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Alignment of Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Graduate Attributes

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Textbooks and Resources

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This information will be available on Monday 22 June 2026
Academic Integrity Statement

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