Understanding Project Management Success

This assignment delves into the concept of project management, defining it as a structured process for achieving goals within specific constraints. It examines the elements of successful project execution, drawing upon examples like Banjo’s restaurant expansion and personal experiences. The assignment also explores critical thinking tools used to analyze and evaluate project management effectiveness, highlighting the importance of meeting objectives and success criteria.

Weekly Portfolio Learning Table
Topic and
reading
samples.
Personal learning
outcomes
Learnings from
your experience.
References.
Introduction to
Project
Management
There are many business
organizations or even
individuals that have achieved
success for their projects
(Contingency Planning 2017).
One such project that
succeeded can be traced to
Banjo’s restaurant. Banjo’s
happen to have steadily
grown to a level of being able
to operate forty stores in
Australia alone.
The project that led to
such growth is having a
place whereby customers
were able to comfortably
settle while they enjoyed
their delicacies. The
foods had to be fresh and
also hand crafted.
Everything that was
baked had to be
preservative free,
superior, fresh, soft and
delicious. That led to the
company’s growth in the
end (PMI 2017).
Contingency Planning,
(2017). Contingency
Planning: Developing a
Good 'Plan B'. [online]
Mindtools.com. Available
at:
https://www.mindtools.com
/pages/article/newLDR_51.
htm [Accessed 25 May
2017].
PMI Code of Ethics and
Professional Conduct.
Available at:
http://www.pmi.org/About-
Us/Ethics/Code-of-
Ethics.aspx [Accessed 25
May 2017].
Kerzner
Chapter 1
By definition, I would regard
project management as the
process, by which an
individual or a business
organization plans, initiates,
executes, control and close a
team’s work to achieve
particular goals and
objectives. Also, the same
process is meant to achieve a
certain success criteria.
From the study, I came to
outline my own definition
of project management.
I also come to understand
that there are a number of
activities that I perform
each morning which fall
under project
management.
Kerzner, H. (2013). Project
Management: A Systems Approach
to Planning, Scheduling, and
Controlling. [online] Available at:
https://leseprobe.buch.de/images-
adb/01/a0/01a0f1b5-054e-46ba-
a3d3-4d33b63eb326.pdf [Accessed
11 Oct. 2017].
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Topic and
reading
samples.
Personal learning
outcomes
Learnings from
your experience.
References.
Journals &
Standards
Blowing Hot and
Cold on Project
Management.
To gauge myself as a project
manager, the activities I do
each morning include:
i) Training football
to improve my
skills and
performance
ii) Going through my
books to increase
my grades
iii) Attending classes
and sitting exams
to graduate at the
end
I understand that in
everything that we do, we
always strive to succeed.
Project success is as
equally important as any
other success.
Bredillet C. N. (2010)
Blowing Hot and Cold on
Project Management
[Accessed 11 Oct. 2017].
Academic
assignments:
Critical thinking
and writing
critically
Using the tools for critical
thinking, I formulated a
number of activities to be
performed each morning.
I have the chance to gauge
myself as a project manager.
By performance of certain
activities and determining the
level of success of each.
Portfolio Reflection
By definition, project success is whereby the objectives and goals of a given project are met. To
ensure success, all the success criteria of any particular project have to be met.
I have also determined that while project management is a process which depends on variables,
project success is the outcome of proper implementation and follow-up of these variables. Proper
management of projects lead to ultimate success.
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