Project Management WBS and Resource Allocation

This assignment focuses on key aspects of project management. It explores how to effectively design a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for easier resource allocation. The importance of functional managers' roles in establishing the WBS is highlighted, along with potential conflicts during the planning cycle and their resolution methods. Additionally, the assignment examines how customers and contractors ensure mutual understanding of crucial project documents like the Statement of Work, WBS, and Program Plan.

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Weekly Portfolio Learning Table
Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this course.
Learning from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
Why Project
Management?
Project management is the application of
knowledge for developing unique products
and service for gaining high level profit.
I have learned that, there are five phases
such as initiation, planning, development,
monitoring and controlling and closure
those should be followed accordingly.
Santos, A., & Quilliam, W. (2015). An Overview
of the Change Management Process and
Examples of Software to Help Organizations
Effectively Manage Change. GSTF Journal on
Business Review (GBR), 4(1).
Kerzner Chapter 1 In quality management system these two
terms completely differs from each other.
Output is the result of a process and outcome
is an achievement that has to be achieved
from any system.
I have learned the differences between the
outcome and output of a project.
Kerzner, H. (2013). Project management: a
systems approach to planning, scheduling, and
controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Egelstaff (2013)
Academic
assignments:
Critical thinking
and writing
critically
Outputs are referred to as profit, revenue that
enables the users to gain fund for the
outcome on the other hand, outcome is the
final result.
I have also learned that in order to improve
business process the differences are very
much helpful.
Nielsen, D., Egelstaff, R., & McSweeney, T.
(2014). Optimisation of maintenance
interventions for railway bridges.
Journals &
Standards
 IJPM International journal of project management
offers the users wide range of learning and
comprehensive coverage for all of the facts.
I have learned details about comprehensive
coverage.
Santos, A., & Quilliam, W. (2015). An Overview
of the Change Management Process and
Examples of Software to Help Organizations
Effectively Manage Change. GSTF Journal on
Business Review (GBR), 4(1).
 PMJ The strategy of project management journal is
to shape the thoughts of the authors through
I think PMJ is very helpful for developing
strategies with relevant theories.
Schwalbe, K. (2015). Information technology
project management. Cengage Learning.
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this course.
Learning from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
cutting edge research and advances theories
for providing evidence.
 SAI Global The SAI Global project management journal
helps the readers to learn professionally
about data and resources. Additionally, it also
helps the readers to improve the operational
abilities.
I realized my operational ability will increase
by learning this type of journal.
Verzuh, E. (2015). The fast forward MBA in
project management. John Wiley & Sons.
What planning
steps should
precede total
program
scheduling? What
steps are
necessary?
The particular planning step that should
precede the total program scheduling includes
the understanding of the project
requirements. In order to accomplish a project
the different planning steps those should be
scheduled by the project manager are:
development of mission, vision and strategies,
creation of project roadmap, developing
project deliverable and budget estimation.
I have analyzed that proper understanding
of project requirement is necessary in order
to complete the project successfully.
Svejvig, P., & Andersen, P. (2015). Rethinking
project management: A structured literature
review with a critical look at the brave new
world. International Journal of Project
Management, 33(2), 278-290.
Describe in your
own personal life
projects the
process for
planning.
In my personal life projects the steps that I
have been considered include project
requirements understanding, mission, vision
statement development, strategies planning,
risk identification, budget estimation and time
scheduling.
I have experienced that the process of
project planning is quite important and in
order to complete the planning phase it is
necessary to carry out some of the activities
of project effectively.
Kendrick, T. (2015). Identifying and managing
project risk. American Management
Association,.
How does a
project manager
determine how
complex to make
a program plan or
how many
schedules to
include?
Based on the project requirement the project
manager should plan the schedule and the
complexity of the project.
I have identified that planning as well as
determining the complexity of the project is
one of the important steps for making the
project sucessfull.
Bucero, A., & Englund, R. L. (2015, October).
Project sponsorship: Achieving management
commitment for project success. Project
Management Institute.
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reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this course.
Learning from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
Is it possible for
the WBS to be
designed so that
resource
allocation is
easier to identify?
Yes, it is possible to design the WBS in
such a way through which resource
allocation become easier.
I have analyzed that proper designing of
WBS is quite important in order to identify
the resource allocation of the project.
Weiss, J., Newell, S., & Swan, J. (2017, January).
Introduction to IT and project management
minitrack. In Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences.
What roles does a
functional
manager play in
establishing the
first three levels
of the WBS?
In my own life project, no functional
manager had overlooked into the project
plans.
I have found from my experience that
functional manager play an important
role in establishing the first three
levels of the WBS.
Heldman, K. (2015). PMP project
management professional exam deluxe
study guide: updated for the 2015 Exam.
John Wiley & Sons.
What types of
conflicts can
occur during the
planning cycle,
and what modes
should be used
for their
resolution?
During the project planning phase the
conflicts those might raise include
improper time management, inaccurate
budget estimation, cultural barrier, scarce
resource, differentiation and uncertainty
over authorities.
I have found that in order to resolve
those issues the steps those should be
undertaken include reward system,
collaboration, accommodation,
avoidance etc.
Kerzner, H. (2013). Project management: a
systems approach to planning, scheduling, and
controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
How do the
customer and
contractor know
After the launch of the project plan
document by the project manager the
customer and contractor will come to
know about the program plan, WBS and
I have learnt that launch of the project
plan document by the project manager,
the customer and contractor will come
to know about the program plan.
Svejvig, P., & Andersen, P. (2015). Rethinking
project management: A structured literature
review with a critical look at the brave new
world. International Journal of Project
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this course.
Learning from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
if each one
completely
understands the
statement of
work, the work
breakdown
structure, and the
program plan?
work statement. Management, 33(2), 278-290.
Heldman, K. (2015). PMP project
management professional exam deluxe
study guide: updated for the 2015 Exam.
John Wiley & Sons.
You have been
asked to develop
a work
breakdown
structure for a
project. How
should you go
about
accomplishing
this? Should the
WBS be time-
phased,
department-
phased, division-
phased, or some
combination?
If, I am asked to develop a Work
Breakdown Structure then, I will
accomplish the task by considering time
phased activities.
I have analyzed that development of WBS is
quite important for making a project
sucessfull.
Santos, A., & Quilliam, W. (2015). An Overview
of the Change Management Process and
Examples of Software to Help Organizations
Effectively Manage Change. GSTF Journal on
Business Review (GBR), 4(1).
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Portfolio Reflection
I have learnt about project management by reading various journals as well as articles and my personal experience reflects that i have improved a
lot in my project management skills as well as knowledge.
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