Project, program, and portfolio management is essential for any types of organisations. It deals with how to effectively and efficiently manage a series of activities and projects to ensure that they are on time, on specification, and on budget. This course is designed to help students understand, critically analyse, and apply project, program, and portfolio management processes and tools. It covers topics related to planning, scheduling, organising, and controlling projects as part of programs and portfolios.

This course adopts learning-focussed teaching, meaning that students’ learning process is paramount and developed through open discussion and critical thinking rather than one-way lecture. Students are expected to prepare themselves prior to the class discussion. Whilst selected topics and readings are offered to trigger the class discussions, students are welcome to bring and discuss their own materials beyond what has been suggested in this syllabus. This way, students are responsible for their own learning. They are the centre of knowledge that is (re)constructed together with the lecturer acting as a facilitator.