Portfolio: Project Leadership and Management

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Table of Contents
Portfolio 1..............................................................................................................................................2
Portfolio 2..............................................................................................................................................5
Portfolio 3..............................................................................................................................................7
Portfolio 4............................................................................................................................................10
Portfolio 5............................................................................................................................................13
References...........................................................................................................................................16

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Portfolio 1
Myself as a project leader
Being a project leader I am usually responsible for providing guidance to a group of
people as they aim in completing a particular project. I am also responsible for developing as
well as implementing a particular timeline that would be used by the team members in order
to reach their goal (Muller, 2017). Some of the ways using which I ensure that the employees
reach their goals includes delegating various tasks to the members depending on their
interests. I also have the responsibility of providing direction, instructions as well as guidance
to a specific group of individuals who can be called as a team, for a particular purpose of
achieving a certain objective (Lindsjørn, Sjøberg & Dingsøyr, 2016). I consider myself as an
effective project leader because I know the strengths, motivation and weaknesses of my
project members. I have various roles that I need to fulfil within my project, and in my
organization. My job is to get various tasks done with the use of numerous resources that are
available to me, including other project members or team leaders (Kerzner & Kerzner, 2017).
I have pointed out some qualities or responsibilities that I follow for the purpose of carrying
out a certain project in a successful manner. The roles are mentioned below
 Developing a particular strategy that would be used by the project team for
the purpose of completing that project and receive some profits out of it
weather it is in the aspects of finance or knowledge (Ramazani & Jergeas,
2015). There has been times, when I, along with my team had executed a
particular project with specific strategy, planning and executing process and
still the project failed. In this attempt we did not receive any financial profit
but we received knowledge regarding that particular field and we also
obtained knowledge regarding how a project is not supposed to be carried out
(Serrador & Pinto, 2015).

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 I provide training to my project team members that they require. Before
starting off with any project, I choose my team members wisely, after I choose
my team members, I ensure that they are provided with the activities that they
are interested in and considering their strength points (Lock, 2017). In case a
particular member does not have enough skills, I ensure that he is provided
with enough training so that he is able to carry out his tasks in an effective
manner which would also contribute in success of the project.
 I keep a clear channel of communication among the project members and with
me as well. The communication channel is a vital part that needs to be kept
clear during execution of a project (Kosmala, Wiggins & Swanson, 2016). I
always provide clear communication to my team. Whenever a project has to
be executed, I carry out regular meetings with my team members in order
convey to them their responsibilities. I also help the team members to maintain
a clear communication among themselves. I allow them to discuss regarding
their tasks and work in cooperation (Harrison & Lock, 2017). I had learnt his
lesson from a practical experience. During a particular project, I had told a
team member to inform another member to get hold of some resources that
would be required, I had provided a particular deadline for collecting the
resources, there was a miscommunication between the members and the one
who was responsible for collecting resources thought that I had been angry on
him and this discouraged him to work in an appropriate manner (Cleden,
2017). When I noticed changes in his behaviour towards the team and the
project, I had held a meeting with him and clarified the overall matter with
him. After that I try to keep clear communication with my team members.

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From another person’s perspective
I would like to share my team member’s point of view in order to describe what
people about me as a project leader. Usually after competing every project, I provide a
feedback for to my team member so that they can provide a detailed feedback on how I am as
a project leader and what are the faults that they think I have and how it can be resolved
(Chih & Zwikael, 2015). Some points that they have highlighted are as follows
 Micromanaging experienced people: my team members had pointed out that I
usually micromanage experienced people, they said that new employees or
inexperienced employees who want to learn something new must be provided
more chances and they must not be provided with tasks that are very easy to
perform (Brière, Proulx & Flores, 2015). Some members who were new in a
certain project had been provided with easy tasks in order to check their
ability, I usually do this in order to know their ability to work in easy
situations, based on their ability, and I provide them with standardized tasks
(Berssaneti & Carvalho, 2015). I do this because if I provide them with tough
task in the very beginning of the project, they might not be able to work
efficiently and they might get frustrated.
 Avoiding conflict: this is one of the qualities that had been highlighted by my
project members, thy said this is a good as well as a bad quality. In most of the
cases, I try to avoid collisions in any situation, if two of the project members
are in the state of creating a collision, I separate them and try to avoid any sort
of collision (Larsen, Shen & Lindhard, 2015). I must try to solve collisions
instead of avoiding them because it would have high chances to create issues
in future.

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Portfolio 2
“While project management is an activity undertaken with others, the projects themselves
involve these other people doing—or not doing—just what is needed. This happens in an
environment where the project manager has far less authority than responsibility, and it is this
limitation of authority that characterises the project manager's role and propels the most
successful project managers to demonstrate leadership.”
Being a project manager, I have the responsibility for successful planning, initiation,
execution as well as closure of a particular project. I need to have a combination of various
skills including the ability to ask various penetrating questions, detect various assumptions
that are unstated and then resolve conflicts along with various management skills (Kerzner,
2019). The vital among my duties include the recognition that various risks impact the
success’s likelihood and that this particular risk might be formally as well as informally
measured all throughout the life of the project (Lewandowski & Specht, 2015). I had been the
project manager of a particular project within my organization, in this particular role, I had
various responsibilities, the responsibilities that I had to fulfil various roles which include
planning as well as defining scope, activity planning as well as sequencing, planning of
resources, preparing schedules, estimating time, estimating cost, developing a particular
budget of the project, documentation of the project, creating schedules and charts, analysis of
various risks, managing issues and risks, monitoring as well as reporting progress, building
up team leadership, strategic influencing, business partnering, working with various vendors,
scalability, probability analysis and interoperability, controlling the quality of the project and
realization of project (Turner, 2016). After these steps are undertaken, I had to take
permission from my senior project manager, he reviews my performance on every field and
then I am allowed to proceed. After these there are more fields that I need to look after, these
aspects include maintaining effective communication skills, this is usually considered as one