Project Management Portfolio for Weeks 1-4

Explore the fundamentals of project management, including the importance of project management, staff hiring, project success, contemporary issues, and project effectiveness. Dive into Kerzner's chapters to understand modern project development features and risk handling.

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Weekly Portfolio Learning Table - 1
Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learning’s from your
experience.
Supporting documentation
including your prior learning’s.
Why Project
Management?
 Project management is a blueprint of
the base idea what result is going to
be achieved to fulfil the requirement
of the decided project.
 Aims to tame the chaos caused
during requirement gathering of the
project going to be developed.
 Serves the best possible cost models
to balance feasibility.
 Requirements to develop easy
project management are:
 Deserving staff hiring.
 Initial Training availability
 Organising functionalities.
 Resource management.
Project management being an efficient way
to deal the future possible issues in
implementation step needs to be explained
well. Majorly its goals to reduce failure and
quality related issues. Also, it solves the
issues possible to be faced at the
requirement gathering stage of the project
being developed. In order to manage the
budget of the concerned company or
individuals handling project, project
management proposes most suitable cost
models. At the important factors to be
considered for project developed are also
discussed.
Kerzner Chapter 1 First chapter of Kerzner briefs about different
requirements related to project management.
major ones are detailed below :
 Tools and Skills required managing
projects.
 Ways to initiate the project.
 Ways to plan projects.
 Detailing about project execution.
 Cross functionalities availing to reach
the aim of the project successfully.
 Resource requirement.
 Project manager role.
 Project failure reasons.
 Frameworks for decision making.
Major learning’s from Kerzner's chapter 1
are listed below :
 All the required tools and skills
required to develop a project plan
including the benefits of the same.
 Detailing including roles and
responsibilities to initiate the plan
and execute the project with
required scheduling.
 Knowledge of functionality
distribution according to the
project goal requirement.
 Problems and functionalities
related to resource management.
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reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learning’s from your
experience.
Supporting documentation
including your prior learning’s.
 Problems faced at different levels of
project management.
 Challenges faced.
 Supporting Frameworks avail
Decision making.
 Organisational strategies to reach
desired goals.
 Challenges faced in public sector
project plans to aware about the
risks.
Egelstaff (2013)
Academic
assignments:
Critical thinking
and writing
critically
 Gives an idea to manage the
workflow in PPMP.
 Highlights the key requirements to
smoothen the journal search.
 Details about the writing patterns
and styles to manage the referencing
and body part of data.
This has helped to get an overview of
factors mentioned below.
 Writing styles and pattern of
references and body content.
 Workflow management in PPMP.
 Management in content formatting
of PPMP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=I5UYb3d094M
Project Success Project success is completely based on the
factors mentioned below.
 Completed within the allocated time.
 Solving some issue.
 Requirements managed within
budget.
 Acceptance on random changes.
Project success is achieved only if the
project management fulfils the criteria of
getting done in the fixed time period. This
benefits the project in future reliability
maintenance.
Problems in
project
management
Problems in the project management are
mentioned below.
 Resource management
 Operation scheduling
 Reaching hard deadlines.
 Risk handling.
Problems in resource management
mentioned drive the learning about
importance of even resource management,
operation scheduling, risk handling and with
even brake operation scheduling.
Journals &
Standards
 IJPM  This journal totally supports the idea  How the stakeholder behaves in
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learning’s from your
experience.
Supporting documentation
including your prior learning’s.
of stakeholder behaviour in project
management.
 This journal offers a pure reduction
list approach for project
management.
 This journal gives a complete idea
about stakeholder analysis to be
done in project management.
 Gives an overview of the shadow of
context in project management.
 Differentiates between advantages
and disadvantages of shadow of
context and reductionism.
 Details about logical deductions,
project theory and stakeholder
theory.
different situations is yielded by
analysing stakeholder behaviour in
project management.
 Reduction approach helps to keep
the project managers focused on
particular parameters to be
worked on.
 Shadow of context avails different
insights on the stakeholder
behaviour.
 Advantages and disadvantage
description helps to analyse the
functionalities offered by both.
Portfolio Reflection
Week one purely reflects an overview of project management including major functionality topics like project management functionality, major
requirements to deal with the project management, decision making part. Also, a brief description about major topics of Kerzner's chapter one is given.
With all this, a bullet format description about project management problems and project success is also given in order to enhance the solution being
proposed by the project to be managed. In Project management to maintain the documentation record all the required formatting styles and the steps to
manage efficient journal research is given. With this, the problems faced in project management are also given. At the end, I have proposed a journal result
on international journal on project management to give a more detailed view of the behaviour and functional management of different level people in
project management. Basically, the journal I have used completely defines about the stakeholders of the business and their behaviours. Major points
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covered are stakeholder theories, Challenges faced in public sector project plans to aware about the risks, Shadow of context availing different insights on
the stakeholder behaviour, Reduction approach to keep the project managers focused on particular parameters to be worked on.
References
Eskerod, P. and Larsen, T., 2018. Advancing project stakeholder analysis by the concept ‘shadows of the context’. International Journal of Project
Management, 36(1), pp.161-169.
Kerzner, H 2009, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, Tenth Edition, ch. 1, pp. 1-31
Oppong, G.D., Chan, A.P. and Dansoh, A., 2017. A review of stakeholder management performance attributes in construction projects. International Journal
of Project Management, 35(6), pp.1037-1051.
Lock, D., 2017. Project management. Routledge.
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Weekly Portfolio Learning Table - 2
Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learning’s from your
experience.
Supporting documentation
including your prior learning’s.
Project
management
benefits
There are numerous benefits of project
management as project management solves
the entire project issues May it be in the
development stage, design stage or future
work.
Benefits that project management serves to
project and the people managing it are :
a) A blueprint to project
design.
b) Easy decision making.
c) Budget management
d) Initial level issue fixing.
There exists a wide range of benefits for
project management. Through project
management benefits all the project
management issues generated within the
project management development phase,
design stage and future work. All this is
done to reach benefit providing points like
easy decision making, budget management
and initial level issue fixing for a decent
level reaching.
Kerzner Chapter
21
Twenty-First chapters of Kerzner book details
about the modern development features of
the project using modern methodology. Also,
the description of the project management
development cycle is given. Below are the
covered topics.
 Project management maturity model.
 Procedural document development.
 Multiple project management.
 Control and definition of process.
 Benchmarking
 Continuous improvement.
Following are the learnings:
 Project management maturity
model gets desired achievement
with the aim that project solutes
for.
 Project document development for
being representative is generated
in project management.
 Multiple project management
handling for serving easy resource
management for projects is done.
Listed steps including benchmarking, similar
language and process with continuous
improvement are followed to serve higher
efficiency and reliability in the processes of
the project.
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learning’s from your
experience.
Supporting documentation
including your prior learning’s.
Kerzner Chapter 2 This chapter has given knowledge about
project management development from the
year 1940 to 2017 with a provision of lifecycle
development phases to aware about what are
the actual phases a project has to deal with to
get into shape it is focused towards. Rest this
chapter has listed about implementation
areas like defence and construction with
respect to project management. In the year
1950 and 1960.
On comparing previous with the newly
proposed project management model the
results analysed are.
 More added cost and labour in the
previous model and just opposite
in newly proposed model.
 Provision of lifecycle development
models.
 Chances of decreased profitability
and increased level in the newly
proposed model.
 Quality issues in previous models
and solved ones in the new model.
 Explanation of project
development from early 1940’s till
2017 is also given.
Contemporary
issues.
In such a long period of time, in project
management, several issues have been faced
in different fields. Below are few.
 Funding sources.
 Decision making
 Outsourcing the labours.
Contemporary issues faced in project
management in the early Roman period as
well as in the year 1993 are given. Including
funding sources, labour outsourcing and
decision making to reach the specified
goals.
https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/ancient-
practices-infrastructure-project-management-
2229
Failure face in
early 1990’s.
 Low morale.
 Less motivation
 Rare functional commitments.
Low morale, less motivation and very rare
functional requirements are the main
failure faces in early 90’s.
Project
management
methodologies
Mainly it comprises information regarding
management failure stages and unclear aim of
projects in project methodology
implementation.
In 1980, issues like unclear project aims,
methodologies, vast changes in technical
and policy implementations were the
reason for failures.
Journals &
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learning’s from your
experience.
Supporting documentation
including your prior learning’s.
Standards
 IJPM  Journal covers the human factors
required for project management.
 Distribution, multiplicity and focus
are the main three affecting factors
in project management for future
searches.
 Contributions on challenges faced in
project management.
Factors drawn with respect to human in
terms of project management are.
 Knowledge
 Social.
 Cultural
 Behavioural
 Commitment
 Skills
Portfolio Reflection
Portfolio week 3 reflects the structured reorientation in the form of tabular view regarding project management issues, failure reasons, benefits, project
management development from the year 1940 to 2017 and the modern development features. Majorly focused point is new imposed methodologies to
enhance project development on a reliable level. This portion reflects the models, benefits and ways which were previously used in the year 1990 and 60’s.
Adding to this a clear description for differentiation between the advantages and disadvantages of project management system in early 90’s and recent
2017 is given. Reasons for the failures in early 90’s are described using name Failure face in early 1990’s. With this, I have selected a journal based on
responsible human factors in well-developed project management from the international journal of project management. All the content presented is
resourced from the required video given in references, Kerzner’s book for project management and the lecture slides. For feasibility management in project
management, more added cost and labour in the previous model and just opposite in newly proposed model with Provision of lifecycle development
models in chapter 2 of Kerzner's are also given. In previous years implementation areas like defence and construction with respect to project management
are also given. All this presented is can surely prove to be helpful in case of enhancing every single feature of project management in current and future
projects.
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References
 Kerzner, H 2009, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, Tenth Edition, ch. 2, pp. 39-85
 https://moodle.cqu.edu.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=648073
 Kerzner, H 2009, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, Tenth Edition, ch. 21, pp. 733-755
 Frontinus- Project Manager -Roman Empire Era - Ancient Practices. (2018). Pmi.org. Retrieved 23 March 2018, from
https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/ancient-practices-infrastructure-project-management-2229
 Pasian, B., Feldbrugge, K. and Sankaran, S., 2017, February. Coverage of ‘human factors’ in project management literature: a systematic journal
review. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the ISSS-2015 Berlin, Germany (Vol. 1, No. 1).
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Weekly Portfolio Learning Table – 3
Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learning’s from your
experience.
Supporting documentation
including your prior learning’s.
Best staff  This is a part of project management
which deals with the complete
operational part of project
management.
 Staff in project management is
divided into several departments for
reaching desired outputs.
 Staffs are hired at the initial stage of
implementation after design
completion step.
 High Skills are an important
requirement in the staff for being
best.
Best staff have their own importance as
they help in reaching all the decided points
of aim which are initially drawn while
blueprint mapping of the project in project
management. Staff should have many of the
qualities to reach the goals planned. That is
why a step to step process is followed for
staff hiring. At Implementation time mainly
the characteristics to be owned are listed.
 Cooperation ability.
 Teamwork spirit.
 Honesty with smartness.
 Ability to work under pressure.
Kerzner Chapter 8  To manage the performance of every
single feature and aspect in the
project management a requirement
to measure all these have become a
necessity.
 To manage any issue at any level of
the project developed or going to be
developed, there arises a need of
training the staff to be the best and
generate such outputs which can
achieve every single one.
 The ability of staff should be there to
handle the minor and major deals on
hard deadlines.
For fully filtering the crème staff and
managing the required ones in terms of
performance check and management
efficiency, staff training and checks after
those respected are a necessity.
 Analysis of every single aspect is
done to check the reliability and
honesty of staff involved.
 Project manager analysing is the
other necessity to see if the central
spine is worth to manage the staff
or not. Performance analysis is
done.
Kerzner Chapter 4 In this, a consecutive representation of how to To be sure about that the team selected for
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learning’s from your
experience.
Supporting documentation
including your prior learning’s.
deal the system of project management in a
procedural way following by generating a
well-skilled team for the project planned to be
executed and responsible project manager
hiring for the same is required. All the related
analysis is done in this chapter of Kerzner's
book. All these serve as important concepts of
project management to deal.
project management and future operational
handling it is quite necessary to test the
both, team selected and the manager also.
This analysis is necessary to be done so that
no space for misconception is left anywhere
in terms of experience and skills of
both. .Each single project manager activity
can make huge differences in management.
PMI-Professional
conduct using Code
of ethics
 Following ethics to get each
government rule and regulation
authorised is a necessity for a good
project management.
 Factors depending on ethic following
are decision accuracy and risk
diminishing
To arrange every single decision in order
according to the decided aim for the project
in managing phase there is a requirement of
involved stakeholder meet up to finalise the
decision accuracy. This is reached to ensure
equal participation of stakeholders also in
project planning and management.
Efficiency
Improvement.
Project management efficiency is one of the
major goals to be achieved for proving best
results in project management phase of any
project development. There are many ways to
put efficiency in the work done in project
management. some of them are given below
 Responsible manager
 Talented and Technically sound staff.
 A strategy based working.
Efficiency management is handled by the
project manager and on that work has to be
done by the staff hired using their
intellectual and innovative skills Need for
these is so high that if this step is removed
from the project management phase surely
it can give a big back hit to project
management process, as there would be a
complete loss of work efficiency.
Blowing hot and
cold in project
management.
In this, the objective aiming steps are
structured according to the decided strategy
for the implementation phase considering the
approaches marked right by the project
manager to be selected in management era is
Meetings of involved hands in projects are
organised to decide the finalised
implementations in project management.
Everything in this kept in consideration
involving ethics, values, government rules
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Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learning’s from your
experience.
Supporting documentation
including your prior learning’s.
important to be analysed. All the selected
steps are followed by the staff after taking
team suggestions and implementing orders
only
and other authorisation measures. Analysis
of every implemented part needs to be
done.
Journals &
Standards
 IJPM
 This journal has given knowledge
about a review of project
management using the fuzzy logic
technique.
 This journal focuses on different
fuzzy methods that successfully
result in the best from project
management phase.
 Challenges of the models possible to
use are well evaluated.
In this journal, every possible model that
comes under fuzzy logic technique that can
be used to upgrade the level of project
management are implemented. In this,
possible models to be implemented in
project management are extended and
hybrid fuzzy. These are used to get a logical
view of the project being managed.
Portfolio Reflection
This portfolio reflects details for step to step view of ethics needed in the project management. With this, there is an explanation of benefit points of staff
and manager to be hired. In the end, I have given a brief detail about fuzzy logic technique implementation using different models. All the content-driven is
referenced from resources mentioned below. By using this technique it would be easily possible to manage the project when it comes to distribution
process in any related department in project management.
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References
 Islam, M.S., Nepal, M.P., Skitmore, M. and Attarzadeh, M., 2017. Current research trends and application areas of fuzzy and hybrid methods to the
risk assessment of construction projects. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 33, pp.112-131.
 Code of Ethics & Professional Conduct. (2018). Pmi.org. Retrieved 26 March 2018, from https://www.pmi.org/about/ethics/code.
 Blowing Hot and Cold on Project Management. (2018). Pmi.org. Retrieved 3 April 2018, from https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/research-
project-management-ontology-2421.
 Kerzner, H 2009, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, Tenth Edition, ch. 1, pp. 1-31
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Weekly Portfolio Learning Table – 4
Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learning’s from your
experience.
Supporting documentation
including your prior learning’s.
Evaluated Time for
project
 This totally depends on the level of
the project for deciding the
evaluation time for project
management and other tasks to
perform in this process.
 Level of the project can be large level
or small, Large one can take more
time and the small one may take less.
 Also, it depends on the technologies
that how much time it will take to
complete.
 It depends upon the level of the
skilled workforce involved in project
management
Time evaluation for getting a virtual view of
how much time can a single project take
may it be at small scale or large one. To get
an evaluated virtual idea of time to be
consumed by a project helps to maintain
the client satisfaction also because in
beginning stage only the client can be given
an abstract to view about the full project
analysis if he/she wants to proceed.
Otherwise, cancellation process is started.
Affecting factors are.
 The delay caused by client end to
give the project requirements.
 Giving the project details with long
delays inside.
 Ability of the workforce working.
PMI, Ch-1  Chapter one of PMI has briefed the
project planning process
management in group system to
ensure security in case one person
loses the project details, other must
be having a stored file.
 According to the client requirements
in the project, the specifications are
decided.
 It has provided the benefits for the
respected organisation whose project
is been taken.
PM chapter one proposes a number of
beneficial points with respect to parameters
like integration and scalability of the project
in management arena.
 Beneficial point of the project
helps to increase the morale of
workforce working of it to create a
positive impact to deal easy
solution generating from an issue.
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learning’s from your
experience.
Supporting documentation
including your prior learning’s.
Project
management
effectiveness.
Project management effectiveness is fully in
project manager hands as it works as a strong
connecting medium between people at lower
authorities and the ones at high. Effective in
the project are managed by compiling and
delivering every work on time.
Success in project management is crowned by
scheduling the tasks in project management
according to the priority set.
Project management effectiveness has only
goal to satisfy the requirements of the
clients according to the functionalities he
wants in the same. For completely aiming
this a series of decent scheduling
techniques can be availed inside the topic.
Kerzner Chapter 9  In chapter nine there is a full
description about factors and related
measures for enhancing the success
level in the organization
Briefs for the success of project
directly or indirectly being enhanced
at various stages due to different
factors.
 Also, the role project manager to
handle the scenario is to be managed
precisely for viewing separate efforts.
 The affecting features in this
chapter are transparency and
accessibility.
 There are a number of projects
that cannot be handled by the
individual on a large scale in
project management.
 Quality effects of an individual can
be seen in the project managers
from this chapter.
Kerzner Chapter
11.3
This chapter of Kerzner chapter deals with the
strong requirement of risk handling in terms
of project development in the development
phase. All depends on the project manager to
decide and manage the risk factor by
calculating all related data.
There exist common functionality points
where you can get a guide to the existing
set of data. Points I have mentioned below
are the major ones to keep in a notice about
development level measurement.
 Program
 Schedule
 Budget
Journals &
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learning’s from your
experience.
Supporting documentation
including your prior learning’s.
Standards
 PMI
 This journal aims to give knowledge
about major needs of a development
phase in project management
focusing each aspect it covers every
required issue to be solved.
 Process scheduling, controlling and
planning like factors are to be
managed by the project manager and
employee working on that project.
Using different technology implementation,
model description, the step following of
various hierarchies all the required things
like timely process scheduling with control
planning are achieved under this.
Maintaining the abilities in level by level
transparency processing in project
management is the aim for beneficiating the
clients from the output.
Portfolio Reflection
This has noted all the reflection points in a structured view including few descriptive words for evaluated time for the projects, with this Kerzner's chapter 9,
2 and 11.3 are also covered to point the mentioned the benefit activities to be done in project management. Project management efficiency shows simply
how a project in a management has can be developed fulfilling efficiency to reach desired outputs. With this, there is a journal description in lowermost
section of the portfolio which completely justifies the points of benefit feature to highlight the main functionalities like scheduling of processes according to
time management efficiency in project management.
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References
 https://moodle.cqu.edu.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=648090&redirect=1
 Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
 Kerzner, H 2009, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, Tenth Edition, ch. 9, pp. 299-313
 Kerzner, H 2009, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, Tenth Edition, ch. 11.3, pp. 397-404
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