Lessons Learnt in Reflective Practice for Masters of Project Management

This document discusses the lessons learnt in reflective practice for Masters of Project Management, including the importance of self-reflection and analyzing one's own learning. It also explores specific lessons and improvement strategies for project management.

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1. INTRODUCTION
Reflective Practise can be identified as the study of self through the various courses that an
individual goes through in life. It is actually the capacity that every individual attains to reflect
upon their engagement in a process and developed idea behind the process that the individual has
been learning with their continuous learning methods (Scott, West & Tibaut, 2016).
For graduates, it is important that the students reflect upon their own learning and the identified
courses. This is essential that the student understand what they have been learning, and based
upon that, it is also essential that the student analyse themselves based upon the learnings and
knowledge they have gathered during their course timings. Similarly, for the Masters of Project
Management, it is essential that the students analyse themselves on how they have acquired the
learnings and how they have been enriched by the knowledge they have gathered about the way
to handle a project at any given situation (Siemiatycki, 2015).
These learnings were important for me as I had the chance to analyse how I would be handling
the projects and how the project can be made flexible enough to handle all the problems ensuing
the issues faced during the project.
2 LESSONS LEARNT: FRAMEWORK
2.1 How I planned to gather and document lessons learnt
When…
I planned to identify and collect
lessons learnt
Who…
I planned to involve in the
process of gathering lessons
How…
I planned to document lessons
I have planned that the
documentations that I would
make for the assignment
would comprise of the
timings right from the project
initiation phase to the
learning I would gather at the
ending phase of the course.
I would include the learnings
that I have gathered in my
entire course and then would
include the insights gathered
form my own. I am also
planning to add few insights
that my teachers would like
to add in my coursework.
I would take down notes
every day after class I attend
in the manually documented
form to help gathering the
fresh information as the
entire learning and the
documentation of their
insights would be dependent
upon my memory (Raco,
2015). Therefore, it would be
easier to document them
right after every class.
2.2 What actually happened?
When...
I identified and collected lessons
learnt
Who…
I involved in the process of
gathering lessons
How…
I documented lessons
I managed to document all
the information that I could
gather right from the starting
of the course and I
I did not just consider my
own ideas and what the
insights my teacher or
supervisor provided, but I
It was not possible every time
for me to gather the required
documentation at the correct
point of time right after the
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successfully managed to
document all the information
throughout the course till the
course ended.
also compared the idea
regarding the learnings with
my fellow classmates to find
the gap between my
capabilities to learn the
subject and understand the
insights with theirs.
lessons got over but I could
make sure that I eliminate
the manual documentation
process to digital
documentation process
(Kiridena & Sense, 2016). This
enabled me to effectively
manage all the journals that I
have made so far about my
learning about effective
project management.
3. LESSONS
3.1 Lesson 1
1. Situation 2. The situation made me
feel…
3. What I learnt from
reflecting on the situation
There had been a situation
where I could effectively
understand the social and
technical requirements of the
project through the RPM
agenda. This was previously
not known to me and I had
no idea about how a project
can be classified based on
their nature.
Previously, I never had the
idea that the practitioners
and the student need to
develop the idea that the
projects can be classifies into
several distinctive features
based on their nature. I got to
learn about the RPM agenda
that suggest the classification
of the standardized projects.
I learnt about the RPM agenda
in this case, which made me
realize that the project
management practitioners and
students need to understand
the approach that one should
have for the projects through a
self-learning developed to
understand how every people in
the project team perceives the
outcomes of the project (Cheng
& Randall-Parker, 2017). This
would identify the measure of
every project and the ways that
would establish all the issues,
ambiguities and political astute
behind the progression of the
project.
3.1.1 IMPROVEMENT STRATEGY 1
(a)
Improvement
strategy
Explain what the
specific strategy is
(b)
Measurement
How to measure if
the strategy works
(c)
Achievable
Why the strategy is
achievable
(d)
Relevant
Explain the
relevance of
strategy to
(e)
Timing
When the strategy
will be
implemented
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that you will
implement to
address the lesson
identified above
address the lesson
The specific
improvement
strategy is to
previously
estimate the
outcomes of the
project by
assessing the
resources and
the requirement
for the entire
project. This
would help in
assessing the
perspectives of
all the project
team member
to find out the
social technical
nature of the
projects.
I would know
the strategy
was working as
I could measure
the assessment
clearly about
how the project
team members
and even the
stakeholders
associated to
the project.
This strategy is
achievable for
me because I
have the ability
to scrutinize
and analyse the
project clearly
with all the
mentioned
points
developed for
the project and
considering all
the constraints
that the project
has (Samset &
Volden, 2016).
This would
make me
identify all the
possible
outcomes of
the project with
the ability to
analyse how
the different
stakeholders
can perceive
the outcomes
of the project.
This strategy is
relevant to
lesson 1 as it
will identify how
the project
would be
clearly
segregated
upon the
learning
gathered form
the various
sources so that
it would be
essentially
established
about the
requirements to
complete the
tasks. This
would also
make sure
about the
important
aspects about
the project and
the ways by
which it would
become easier
to handle the
outcomes and
the constraints
of the project.
I will implement
this strategy by
making sure
that the
knowledge that
I have gathered
is essentially
and effectively
transferred to
every
concerned
person,
including my
supervisors and
professors to
let them
analyse if I
have been
analysing the
prospects and
the knowledges
in the best way
possible.
3.2 Lesson 2
1. Situation 2. The situation made me
feel…
3. What I learnt from
reflecting on the situation
I learnt about the decision-
making process in a project
and how the decisions are
needed to be made according
to the project situations.
That every project must have
a proper decision-making
system according to the
situations within the project
to make the project flexible
enough in every adverse
I learnt that I would require to
built my analytical skills well
enough to understand all the
aspects and constraints of a
project and all the pre-defined
outcomes to understand the
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condition (Ho & Ang, 2018). making of effective decisions
according to the plans.
3.2.1 IMPROVEMENT STRATEGY 2
(a)
Improvement
strategy
Explain what the
specific strategy is
that you will
implement to
address the lesson
identified above
(b)
Measurement
How to measure if
the strategy works
(c)
Achievable
Why the strategy
is achievable
(d)
Relevant
Explain the
relevance of
strategy to
address the lesson
(e)
Timing
When the strategy
will be
implemented
The specific
improvement
strategy is to
build up my
analytical skills to
identify all the
aspects behind a
project.
I would know the
strategy was
working as I
would be
effectively finding
out all the
requirements
and working
points behind a
project.
This strategy is
achievable for
me because I
already possess a
good analytical
skill, I would only
require to
enhance it more
to the level of
perfection.
This strategy is
relevant to
lesson 1 as it will
identify the
effects of the
proper decision
making behind a
project outcome
(Jorge, Silva &
Saraiva, 2018).
I will implement
this strategy by
formulating
effective
decisions and let
my professors
and supervisors
to analyse the
decisions that I
have made to
rectify my
mistakes and
analyse where I
have been right.
6. CONCLUSION
Therefore, from the above reflective measures that I have stated according to the lessons that I have
learned according to my course as a Masters in Project Management. The entire ideation of the
course is stated in the above report as per the knowledge and learnings that I have gathered
throughout the course. There have been various identified self-reflections in the process as well that
helped me to understand how my learning would help me in having a comprehensive idea about all
the lessons that I have gone through so far. I have mentioned my strategies to identify all the
constraints of the project and all the ways by which I would like to document every thing of the
lessons that I have learnt. This will help me justify my learnings according to the knowledge that I
have gathered and according to the idea that I currently have about a particular project. I have also
included the strategies that I would require to help me gather the knowledge and also develop the
improvements in them to understand the flow of my course and improve my learnings.
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