Lessons Learnt in Reflective Practice for Masters of Project Management

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2019 TERM 1 ASS_3
LESSONS LEARNT
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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 I did not just consider It was not possible
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all the information that
I could gather right
from the starting of the
course and I
successfully managed
to document all the
information throughout
the course till the
course ended.
my own ideas and what
the insights my teacher
or supervisor provided,
but I 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.
every time for me to
gather the required
documentation at the
correct point of time
right after the 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
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