Systems Engineering Concepts

(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 4
Week 4: Describe how systems engineering concepts and methodologies can help a
project manager organise a project.
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
 SEBoK Part 2:
Foundations of
Systems
Engineering -
'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Approach
Applied to
Engineered
Systems';
 Part 5:
Enabling
Systems
Engineering;
 Kerzner (2013)
Chapters 1.21;
2.16-2.18;
17.18;
 AS/NZS
15288:2015
Chapter 6.1-
6.2;
 Al-Mamary
Y.H.,
Shamsuddin A,
& Aziati N.,
1. Explain the
relevance of
systems
thinking to the
project,
program and
portfolio
manager.
I came to understand that the use of system thinking
would help the project, program and portfolio manager in
effective plan/program development for IT projects.
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Profile
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Web site
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insights you can add
from other units you
have studies or
readings you’ve
made?
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 4
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
(2013) "The
Impact of
Management
Information
Systems
Adoption in
Managerial
Decision
Making: A
Review"
Optional
Readings
 AS ISO
21504:2016
 Portfolio
Management;
 Movie:
Enterprise
Project
Portfolio
Management
(EPPM).
Mandatory
Readings
 SEBoK Part 2:
Foundations of
Systems
Engineering -
'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Approach
Applied to
Engineered
2. Identify
different
systems
thinking tools
and techniques
to aid project
managers solve
project
problems.
The study helped me in understanding that the casual
loops, behaviour over time graphs, stock flow maps,
ladder of inference, and connection circle can be used for
aiding project managers solve project problems.
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insights you can add
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 4
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
Systems';
 Part 5:
Enabling
Systems
Engineering;
 Kerzner (2013)
Chapters 1.21;
2.16-2.18;
17.18;
 AS/NZS
15288:2015
Chapter 6.1-
6.2;
 Al-Mamary
Y.H.,
Shamsuddin A,
& Aziati N.,
(2013) "The
Impact of
Management
Information
Systems
Adoption in
Managerial
Decision
Making: A
Review"
Optional
Readings
 AS ISO
21504:2016
 Portfolio
Management;
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 4
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
 Movie:
Enterprise
Project
Portfolio
Management
(EPPM).
Mandatory
Readings
 SEBoK Part 2:
Foundations of
Systems
Engineering -
'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Approach
Applied to
Engineered
Systems';
 Part 5:
Enabling
Systems
Engineering;
 Kerzner (2013)
Chapters 1.21;
2.16-2.18;
17.18;
 AS/NZS
15288:2015
Chapter 6.1-
6.2;
 Al-Mamary
Y.H.,
Shamsuddin A,
3. Assess the
relevance of
systems
engineering to
project cases.
The use of system engineering would help us for
breaking down project cases into individual small
elements for defining the goals and objectives of the
project.
PPMP20012 Unit
Profile
PPMP20012 Moodle
Web site
Have you any
insights you can add
from other units you
have studies or
readings you’ve
made?
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