Master level modules
PMGT 6870 - Master Knowledge in Project Management - core
PMGT 5876 - Strategic Delivery of Change - elective
PMGT 5879 - Implementing Strategy, Project Portfolio and Programme Management - elective
PMGT 5883 - Dissertation/Project - elective
PMGT 6870 - Master Knowledge in Project Management
The aims are to develop high-level competency for very senior project executives to use at the strategic level of an organisation.
The areas addressed also improve the overall skills and practice of those who implement portfolios and programmes that support the strategy.
Much of this material builds on that read in PMGT6867, 6868 and 6869.
Topics include
- Strategic Risk and Opportunity Management
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Outsourcing
- Stakeholder Management
- Governance and Probity
- Portfolio and Programme Management
- Strategic Planning
- Management of Organisational Change
- Benefit and Value Realisation Improving
- Shareholder Value
PMGT 5876 - Strategic Delivery of Change
This module addresses strategic project, programme and portfolio management philosophy and frameworks for the delivery of strategic change.
This module is partially taught. There is a large dissertation (approximately 8,000 words), based on the writer’s own organisational experiences and guided by the USyd Supervisor. The hours of study include the time to write the discourse.
PMGT 5879 - Implementing Strategy, Project Portfolio and Programme Management
This module specifically addresses the selection and prioritisation of multiple programmes and projects, which have been grouped to support the strategic portfolio.
The allocation of programmes of work within a multi-project environment, governing, controlling and supporting the organisation’s strategy are considered.
The aim is to formulate and manage the delivery of the portfolio of strategies using programme management.
This module is partially taught. There is a large dissertation (approximately 8,000 words), based on the writer’s own organisational experiences and guided by the USyd Supervisor. The hours of study include the time to write the discourse.
PMGT 5883 - Dissertation/Project
Research methods and techniques, literature review and critical appraisal techniques, data modelling and evaluation techniques, development and testing of hypotheses; interpretation and documentation of findings and other aspects of conducting research and investigation.
This module is a large dissertation (approximately 10,000 words) based on the writer’s own organisational experiences.
