Relevance of Systems Thinking to Project Management

(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20013Unit Portfolio for Week 1
Week 1 Topic: Explain the relevance of systems thinking to PM.
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
Mandatory Readings
 Smith Chapters 1
& 2;
 Australia National
Audit Office -
Planning and
Approving
Projects
 AS 4120-1994
Code of tendering;
Optional Readings
 Locate your
company internal
Project
Development
Manuals (if it
exists and
available);
 You can also study
the Californian
Government
Department of
Transportation
Project
Development
Procedures;
 Download and
study the
1. Review using clear
terminology the
key areas and
processes of
project, program
and portfolio
management
practices as applies
to asset rich
organisations.
Safety has been the major issue for the functioning of the rich organizations that
are issued with the processing of the humanity concern f the management
system that deals with the perspective that ensures the prosecution of the safe
functioning of the organization. The processions of the economic field of the
safety requirement of the security exist. This concerns the fact that the security
exists are the major concern for the performance of the security exist for the
clear terminology to proceed with the functioning of the data of the
organization. The higher authorities of the organization are the concerned with
the fact that the health issues of the employees who are working under the
governing committee f the organization. Despite the fact that the consideration
of the health aspect of the employee of the organization was not the major
concern n the corporate sector as this process was not directly related to the
destined outcome of the factory. This ensures the fact that the working
conditions of the organizations were not up to the mark hence the improvement
has been an obvious welcome from the employee perspective. After the
compilation of the laws related to the health issue of the employees the working
time of the employees under certain circumstances were limited which leads to
the fact that the efficiency of each employee reduces to certain level. For
limiting the major problems that are created due to the processing of the safety
measures the decrease in efficiency was not well accepted by the organization.
This deals with the fact that the discoveries of new appliances were the call of
the day that provide safety to the employees of the organization and also allow
them to get proper efficiency during the course of the job.
(Picard, 2014)
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20013Unit Portfolio for Week 1
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
Engineers
Australia
Infrastructure
Report Card for
your State;
Case Study
 Brisbane Airport's
New Parallel
Runway;
 YouTube:
Brisbane's New
Parallel Runway –
Overview;
 Brisbane Airport
2014 Approved
Master Plan.
Mandatory Readings
 Smith Chapters 1
& 2;
 Australia National
Audit Office -
Planning and
Approving
Projects
 AS 4120-1994
Code of tendering;
Optional Readings
 Locate your
company internal
Project
Development
2. Discuss the
relevance of tools
and techniques for
investigating and
describing project
process related to
developing new
workings, facilities,
equipment, plant
and processes for
justifying,
designing,
developing, or
maintaining
existing facilities
The tools that are required for the processing of the project includes the fact
that the performing of project management facilitates the performance of the
entire project t as it supports the functioning of the entire project. This ensures
the fact that the decision making of the project needs to accelerate in a proper
direction, which leads to the efficient functioning of the project. The working
environment of the organization must be ever evolving in nature as the
term9inology of the corporate society itself deals with the methodology of
dealing with the upcoming changes that will prove to be beneficial in nature for
the progress of the organization in a positive way. The improved and the
advanced equipments acts as the major catalyst for the progression of the
organization. This ensures the fact that the organization is at a constant growth
and the efficiency of the production rate increases with the increase in the
deployment of the technology in the field of machinery that helps in increasing
the production rte of the organization. The maintenance of the facilities that are
already present facts is the most efficient way of growing as an organization as
(Kevin, 2015)
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20013Unit Portfolio for Week 1
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
Manuals (if it
exists and
available);
 You can also study
the Californian
Government
Department of
Transportation
Project
Development
Procedures;
 Download and
study the
Engineers
Australia
Infrastructure
Report Card for
your State;
Case Study
 Brisbane Airport's
New Parallel
Runway;
 YouTube:
Brisbane's New
Parallel Runway –
Overview;
 Brisbane Airport
2014 Approved
Master Plan.
and equipment
within the context
of their
technological and
asset lifecycle
status.
the maintenance cost that is incurred in the maintenance of the existing
facilities is lower than the method of incurring new facilities in the organization.
The up gradation of the facilities are sure to increase the efficiency of the
organization and the employees of the organization gets the job satisfaction of
using the latest technically supported facilities. The lifecycle of an organization
is ought to be having a proper curve as this fact ensures that every organization
will reach its peak after initiating and then fall apart after reaching the peak. The
efficiency of the maintenance of the facilities and the machineries are the major
reason for the difference in the peak time of different organization.
Mandatory Readings
 Smith Chapters 1
& 2;
3. Present and
interpret major
processes that are
The process that interprets the procession of the tender processing issue deals
with the fact that the procession of the data that is pondered with the
processing of the data. This incurs the fact that the members who can prosecute
(Chandra, 2017)
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