PMQ604 Aligning Strategy and Projects in Global Organisations
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| Unit code: | PMQ604 |
|---|---|
| Equivalent(s): | PMN604 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | PMQ503, PMQ504, PMQ505 and PMQ610 are assumed knowledge. |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,444 |
| International unit fee | $5,220 |
Unit Outline: Session 2 2025, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | PMQ604 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | PMN604 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | PMQ503, PMQ504, PMQ505 and PMQ610 are assumed knowledge |
Overview
This unit explores the detailed links between the organisational business strategy and the projects, programs and portfolios delivered by global organisations. It teaches you how to use tools and techniques to extract maximum value from the project, program and portfolio and execute strategies for delivering optimal benefit for the global organisations. This unit links business strategy theories with the project, program and portfolio practices.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify and assess in detail the strategic alignment and viability of projects, programs and portfolios with their business direction in the global context.
- Critically evaluate how projects, programs and portfolios deliver benefits into the global client and provider organisations.
- Design stakeholder management plans to manage diverse and international stakeholders in the execution of strategies for new initiatives.
- Communicate strategic execution plans to organisational committees using language and communication styles suitable for a professional audience.
- Reflect on the skills required to work in teams to develop project execution plans.
Content
This unit covers:
- Business strategy;
- Global environment scanning;
- Strategic planning;
- Program and portfolio management;
- Project governance and assurance and benefits management;
- Agile project management;
- Entrepreneurial thinking to identify new organisational initiatives;
- Approaches to working in teams for developing project execution plans;
- Communication with organisational committees;
- Risk and stakeholder management plans.
Learning Approaches
This unit will be delivered fully online. In this unit, you will learn by engaging in active and reflective learning through:
- participating in class/online discussions
- engaging with online learning materials
- reading book chapters, scholarly and industry articles
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback in various forms throughout the semester including:
- Rubrics provided to show the expected standard for each criteria in an assessment item.
- Feedback comments on assignments returned to you via Canvas.
- Collaborate and Discussion sessions providing extensive question and answer opportunities with peers and teaching staff.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessments in this unit:
- Strategic Plan – this will bring together your understanding of strategic theories and analysis tools to plan strategically in response to a changing environment.
- Strategic Execution Plan – this will build on your understanding of strategic execution planning and further develop your skills in project, program and portfolio management to execute initiatives and realise the benefits of strategies.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Strategic Plan
You will take on the role of an organisational employee who has been asked to identify a new initiative in an international context and develop the accompanying strategic plan to be delivered to the organisational committee. Your plan will include supporting arguments drawing on strategic analysis tools and frameworks.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Strategic Execution Plan (Report + Presentation)
Working in a group, you will choose one of your initiatives from Assessment Item 1. Update the strategic plan and develop a strategic execution plan. You will deliver a report and present to the organisational committee board.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There are no prescribed resources required for this unit. There are however recommended texts stipulated below. Further, additional resources will be made available through the unit's Canvas site and QUT Readings as relevant to each unit module.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Grant (2010) Contemporary strategy analysis. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PMI, 2021, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Seventh Edition, Project Management Institute, Newtown Square, PA.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no extraordinary risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PQ20 Master of Project Management
- Appraise and adapt contemporary project management methodologies to projects of different types and complexities
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Strategic Plan, Strategic Execution Plan (Report + Presentation) - Communicate, negotiate and manage diverse stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Strategic Execution Plan (Report + Presentation) - Synthesise and apply leadership and team development theory across dynamic and complex project environments
Relates to: ULO2, ULO5, Strategic Execution Plan (Report + Presentation) - Create project plans to effectively deliver strategic business and organisational objectives
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Strategic Plan, Strategic Execution Plan (Report + Presentation)
Unit Outline: Session 4 2025, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | PMQ604 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | PMN604 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | PMQ503, PMQ504, PMQ505 and PMQ610 are assumed knowledge |
Overview
This unit explores the detailed links between the organisational business strategy and the projects, programs and portfolios delivered by global organisations. It teaches you how to use tools and techniques to extract maximum value from the project, program and portfolio and execute strategies for delivering optimal benefit for the global organisations. This unit links business strategy theories with the project, program and portfolio practices.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify and assess in detail the strategic alignment and viability of projects, programs and portfolios with their business direction in the global context.
- Critically evaluate how projects, programs and portfolios deliver benefits into the global client and provider organisations.
- Design stakeholder management plans to manage diverse and international stakeholders in the execution of strategies for new initiatives.
- Communicate strategic execution plans to organisational committees using language and communication styles suitable for a professional audience.
- Reflect on the skills required to work in teams to develop project execution plans.
Content
This unit covers:
- Business strategy;
- Global environment scanning;
- Strategic planning;
- Program and portfolio management;
- Project governance and assurance and benefits management;
- Agile project management;
- Entrepreneurial thinking to identify new organisational initiatives;
- Approaches to working in teams for developing project execution plans;
- Communication with organisational committees;
- Risk and stakeholder management plans.
Learning Approaches
This unit will be delivered fully online. In this unit, you will learn by engaging in active and reflective learning through:
- participating in class/online discussions
- engaging with online learning materials
- reading book chapters, scholarly and industry articles
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback in various forms throughout the semester including:
- Rubrics provided to show the expected standard for each criteria in an assessment item.
- Feedback comments on assignments returned to you via Canvas.
- Collaborate and Discussion sessions providing extensive question and answer opportunities with peers and teaching staff.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessments in this unit:
- Strategic Plan – this will bring together your understanding of strategic theories and analysis tools to plan strategically in response to a changing environment.
- Strategic Execution Plan – this will build on your understanding of strategic execution planning and further develop your skills in project, program and portfolio management to execute initiatives and realise the benefits of strategies.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Strategic Plan
You will take on the role of an organisational employee who has been asked to identify a new initiative in an international context and develop the accompanying strategic plan to be delivered to the organisational committee. Your plan will include supporting arguments drawing on strategic analysis tools and frameworks.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Strategic Execution Plan (Report + Presentation)
Working in a group, you will choose one of your initiatives from Assessment Item 1. Update the strategic plan and develop a strategic execution plan. You will deliver a report and present to the organisational committee board.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There are no prescribed resources required for this unit. There are however recommended texts stipulated below. Further, additional resources will be made available through the unit's Canvas site and QUT Readings as relevant to each unit module.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Grant (2010) Contemporary strategy analysis. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PMI, 2021, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Seventh Edition, Project Management Institute, Newtown Square, PA.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no extraordinary risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PQ20 Master of Project Management
- Appraise and adapt contemporary project management methodologies to projects of different types and complexities
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Strategic Plan, Strategic Execution Plan (Report + Presentation) - Communicate, negotiate and manage diverse stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Strategic Execution Plan (Report + Presentation) - Synthesise and apply leadership and team development theory across dynamic and complex project environments
Relates to: ULO2, ULO5, Strategic Execution Plan (Report + Presentation) - Create project plans to effectively deliver strategic business and organisational objectives
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Strategic Plan, Strategic Execution Plan (Report + Presentation)