DYNM 624 - Program Leadership

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Heaslip. The objective of Program Leadership Skills is to provide students with an understanding of current principles and best practices in the maturing field of Program Management. Students will investigate the relationships between Program Management, Project Management and Portfolio Management as separate butco-dependent disciplines, and examine the importance of each to the successful achievement of organizational goals. Focusing on Program Management, the course will examine the unique challenges that are faced when managing organizational activities that principally pursue strategic goals, and that must be responsive to outcomes of activities being pursued and changes in strategic direction. The course will provide a forum for discussing the various types of Programs that organiations pursue, and for understanding how Program Managment best practices can be applied to each type of Program. The course will explore the need to adapt Program Management principals in a context-specific way to ensure that Programs deliver their expected organizational value. Moreover, it will examine how-despite qualitative differences between Programs-common approaches can be used to assess Program Management maturity and performance, and to define the skills required of a successful Program Leader. At the conclusion of the course, students will be expected to understand current best practices in Program Management, and to determine how to initiate or improve upon Program Management practices in their own organizations. DYNM 624 will begin with an examiniation of the nature of Programs, and their unique role in delivering outcomes that support strategic goals. Drawing on student experience and knowledge, class memebrs will each identify a program to examine and discuss as case studies during the class. The diversity of experience of the students will thus provide a rich environment for the study of programs of very different types. The course will then review the published standards and common practices of Program Management, comparing them with the examples presented by the case studies. Students will examine whether differences between case studies and the standards represent gaps in Program Management practices or acceptable context-specific differences in Program Management needs.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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