PMMP 20008 – Initiating and Planning Projects

PMMP 20008 – Initiating and Planning Projects Assignment 3
PPMP20008
2019 TERM 3 ASS_3
LESSONS LEARNT
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PMMP 20008 – Initiating and Planning Projects Assignment 3
1. INTRODUCTION (2 MARKS)
1.1 Reflective practice
Knott and Scragg (2016) stated that the reflective practice is one’s action to
engage in learning process. It is involved to pay attention towards practical values
along with theories inform actions by examining of the practices reflectively. In the
arena of project management, reflective practice is playing a key significant role.
The project management graduate can develop an interpersonal skills to improve
over emotional intelligence. Nicholas and Steyn (2017) discussed that the
reflective practice is providing help to persons to enhance their decision making
skills and critical thinking skills for better understanding of work.
1.2 Aim of lessons learnt process
The aim of this lessons learnt process is making improvement over managing of
project time along with project deadline managing skills. Those skills will help to
assign project tasks and complete it on scheduled deadline. It would be helpful for
the project management graduate to pursue their subject.
1.3 Overview of the assignment
The assignment is reflected on discussing framework related to the lessons learnt
applied into the project management. Those lessons learnt are documented to
gather lessons learnt from this course work. In this report, two lessons learned are
mentioned with their strategies to improve skills, conflicts and deal with project
work efficiently.
2 LESSONS LEARNT: FRAMEWORK (6 MARKS)
2.1 Lessons learnt framework explained (1 mark)
The lessons learnt framework applied in the project management is documentation
and gathering of project management template. It would help to gather and collect
information and record it in the project documents. It will help to maintain
communication among the project work groups.
The project documentation will help individuals to create detailed breakdown down of
project tasks result in achievable project schedule and planned deadline. It will help to
reduce risks and predict progress of the development at the execution stage (Kerzner,
2017). Finally, the development documents would help the project group to create a
brief of viewpoints of various individuals.
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PMMP 20008 – Initiating and Planning Projects Assignment 3
2.2 Lessons learnt process: How I planned to gather, and document lessons
learnt (2.5 marks)
STEPS WHEN WHO HOW
(i) Identify I planned to identify
lessons learnt from
starting of the
project work on daily
basis.
I planned to involve
myself in the process
of identifying lessons
learnt. With help of
my project group
members, I collected
data and information
to evaluate reflective
practice.
I planned to identify
lessons learnt by
documentation of
the lessons in
project
management
template.
(ii) Document The project related
documents are used
to collect and record
the data such as
project plan, project
report, and schedule
report on weekly
basis.
In case of developing
personal growth, I
thought that
feedback should
require to provide
and document it.
Effective
communication with
the project group
helps me to
document all the
project ideas in
project
management
templates.
(iii) Analyse It will be easier for
me to analyze
progress of my work
so that I can
complete my
evaluation on
reflective practice
on weekly basis.
I believed that
looking for the best
advices and
suggestions from
project team help to
consider own
strengths as well as
weaknesses.
The list of lesson
learnt helps me to
analyze viewpoints
which I had learned
from my own.
(iv) Store On weekly basis, all
the project
management
related theories are
stored.
With help my project
group, I recorded all
the information.
Initiation and
execution of the
work plan is
required to acquire
knowledge on
reflective practices.
(v) Retrieve I achieved the
project objectives on
daily basis to
maximize goal of
the project plan.
I retrieved my
weaknesses by
taking feedback from
team which I
recorded in the
lessons learned
document to gain
project success.
At the time of
collecting lessons
learnt, time
management is a
plan used to gather
the information.
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