PPMP20009 Project Management: A Weekly Unit Portfolio Submission

This document represents a student's weekly portfolio for the PPMP20009 unit, focusing on reflections and learning experiences in project management. The portfolio is structured around a weekly learning table, addressing topics such as continuous improvement, quality management, resource allocat...Read More

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Weekly portfolio
In this unit you are required to complete a weekly portfolio. A portfolio provides evidence of previous experience and presents a dynamic record of your
growth and professional learning over the duration of this Unit. Your portfolio provides an account of your learning based on your prior and current
learnings and your critical reflection.
A portfolio is increasingly being used in Universities as a means of:
 Being able to tell much more about you than exam results;
 As a means of reflecting your development through the unit;
 To reflect your attitude and values as well as your skills and knowledge.
(Race 2010, p. 58)
Timmins states that ‘A portfolio is a cohesive account of work based learning that contains relevant evidence from practice and critical reflection on this
evidence. Its primary purpose is to ‘display achievement ofprofessional competence or learning outcomes and knowledge development’(Timmins 2008: p.
115).
You’ll find much more information about the use and application of portfolios on the Internet. However, it will requireyou to take some time to think
through how you are going to complete the portfolio on a weekly basis. It is very easy to trivialise the portfolio and write nearly the same thing each week.
But that won’t gain you many marks. Instead you should try to focus on the topic and learning outcome for the week and your reflections regarding them.
Task
Your task is to write a weekly portfolio reflecting upon your learnings from the prior week. In your portfolio you will identify:
1. The learning outcomes and module/topic of the unit;
2. A description of your experience, including reading samples or records;
3. Your learning from your experiences;
4. Any supporting documentation of prior or current learning.
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Instructions for completing the portfolio
1. Type your name and student id at the top of the page in the header section.
2. You can then delete this first section, save the file so that it can be used each week, and concentrate on writing your weekly portfolio.
3. Each learning outcome and the topics appropriate for the learning outcome have been included as the first column of portfolio table on the next
page. You should review these columns and make changes as the unit progresses and you gain more familiarity with the learning outcomes and
unit content. You will find that you will progressively elaborate on the content of the second, third and fourth columns as you work through each of
the weeks of the unit.
4. Please appreciate it takes time to complete the portfolio therefore you must think always of what is required and be taking notes to update your
portfolio as you read, study videos, or undertake other unit related activities. You are expected to be working 12 to 16 hours each week on this unit
so you have plenty of time to get the portfolio right!
5. The portfolio will be discussed in the unit online videos and tutorials – please listen carefully and you may find the portfolio is easier to complete
than it first appears.
6. You may disagree with the allocation of the learning outcomes to the topics in the portfolio table. This is your right and you are free to move things
around as you become more familiar with the portfolio and the unit material.
7. At the beginning of the unit all of the learning outcomes maybe not appropriate for the first week, so you should reflect upon what you believe is
required from the portfolio for the first week. As the weeks progress then you will find that you will add more learning outcomes. The content of
the first weekly learning portfolio table in this file includes all of the topics and reading samples to save your time in typing.
8. At the end of the unit you should review your weekly portfolios and then consolidate them into a single submission. This is the assessment that
gets marked. Since the objective of the portfolio is to show your learning journey as well as your reflections then you should not be surprised to
find that your opinions have changed during the unit. You do not have to change your portfolios from prior weeks.
Future directions
In the future you should expect that portfolios will be used increasinglyat the academic post graduate level. Eventually they may even replace exams.
Therefore there are a number of things to note for the future:
1. You will be required to complete more portfolios in otherunits as you progress inyour academic career;
2. As portfolios begin to replace exams you will need to make your portfolio comprehensive and deeply reflective to gain a good grade;
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3. You may find that other unit assessments, such as presentations, will be aligned with the content of your portfolio submissions as a means of
validating your knowledge.
Acknowledgement and references
This portfolio structurewas based on an example (a psychology unit) located at Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada
Race P. (2010) A Practical Guide to Assessment, Learning and Teaching.Abingdon, England: Routledge.
Timmins F. (2008) Making Sense of Portfolios: An Introduction to Portfolio use for Nursing Students. Glasgow, Scotland: McGraw-Hill Education.
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Weekly Portfolio Learning Table
Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from thisunit.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
Why Project
Management?
How do you describe ‘Continuous
Improvement?
Continuous improvement includes the
progressive improvement of the process of
the project management so that the
outcome of the project can be modified.
Some of the practices of the continuous
improvement are-total quality
management, six sigma and lean six sigma.
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project
management: a systems approach to
planning, scheduling, and controlling. John
Wiley & Sons. Ameri, A. and
In your own life, give an example where
you have continuous improvement
The continuous improvement in the
learning process in the academic career.
Kerzner Chapter 1 What is quality? And how does
continuous improvement impact on
quality?
Quality management is the way that helps
to mitigate the variations in the project
outcome and tries to deliver the project
with the right outcome. The continuous
improvement has one attribute called
quality management. The continuous
improvement of the project helps to
improve the quality of the outcome.
Awad, T.Z., 2016. The Roles of the Project
Management Office In The Execution of the
Organizations Strategic Plan.
Describe the history for the quality
movement
In order to assure the quality of the
outcome from the project different quality
measurement standard are imposed. One of
these standards is ISO standard.
Egelstaff (2013)
Academic
assignments:
Critical thinking
and writing
critically
How do you ensure quality in what you do
in life?
I try to do the work in such a way that the
outcome of the action meets the expected
requirements.
Describe the processes you have Developing the right documentation for the
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from thisunit.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
introduced to ensure you deliver quality gathering of the requirement, following the
steps those are needed for the compilation
of the action nad trying to mitigate the
variations in the expected outcome.
References
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons. Ameri, A. and
Awad, T.Z., 2016. The Roles of the Project Management Office In The Execution of the Organizations Strategic Plan.
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