Assignment Objectives (Your Task):
a. Critically review the role of Governance and Methods (i.e. Managing Successful Programmes
and Management of Portfolios) to deliver Programmes and Portfolios in an effective way.
Support your answer with literature and best practice for Managing Successful Programmes
and Management of Portfolios
b. Evaluate the significance of Projects, Programmes and Portfolios and their management in
relation to the successful delivery of an organisation’s strategy. Justify your answer supported
by evidence from the literature and provide fully referenced ‘real-life’ case example to illustrate
c. Appraise the significance of developing and maintaining a business case with robust benefits
for a programme. Please ensure you illustrate your theory using a fully referenced ‘real-life’
case
5. Assignment format:
Discussion paper of 3,250 words (+/-10%) (excluding diagrams, references and appendices). Use a
report structure with a contents page, headings, sub-headings, page numbers, an introduction,
main body of the work covering objectives 1, 2, 3 and 4, conclusion, list of References and
Appendices.
