PPMP20009 Unit Portfolio: Continuous Improvement, Quality & Project

This portfolio assignment delves into continuous improvement plans and their impact on quality within project management. It reflects on personal learning outcomes, experiences, and prior knowledge related to continuous improvement, quality management principles, and their application in both professional and personal contexts. The portfolio discusses the importance of identifying, planning, executing, and reviewing continuous improvement initiatives, referencing frameworks like Six Sigma and ISO. It also covers the history of the quality movement, methods for ensuring quality, and the role of project management in driving successful change. The student reflects on their experiences, skill development and practical application of quality management principles.

(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20009Unit Portfolio for Week (Insert week number)
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
What is continuous
improvement plan?
Continuous improvement plan is an activity
set or process set that helps to bring changes
in terms of improvement gradually.
Continuous improvement program is not
helpful for business or projects only rather it is
used in personnel improvement also.
Continuous improvement plan is a critical
dimension that belongs to different majors
quality frameworks as well as methodologies
such as:
 six sigma
 ISO
 Baldrige etc.
I have learned that, there are different
applications available in continuous
improvement. In case of process intensive
industries as well as application the
continuous improvement plan allows the
users or business groups to identify the
bottlenecks or the inefficiencies.
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Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project
management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Kerzner Chapter 1 It has been learnt that in order to implement
continuous improvement plan whether in
business organization or in personnel changes
the followings are the steps those are to be
followed include:
 Identify
 Plan
 Execution
review
CIP affords people and various
opportunities for streamlining the processes
that can minimize the time, efforts, waste
and cost simultaneously.
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project
management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
In your own life,
give an example
where you have
continuous
During my first year of college I had faced
continuous improvement program arranged
by my teachers.
In my own life I also have aced continuous
improvement during my first semester. It
was a group project on professional project
management that we were assigned. That
time I did not have enough knowledge
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20009Unit Portfolio for Week (Insert week number)
Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
improvement. regarding project management. Thus, I
joined a course on project management and
its application. After that I realized massive
change on my skills and knowledge in
project management.
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What is quality?
how does
continuous
improvement
impact on quality?
Quality can be defined in different ways such
as quality is a conformance to meeting the
project, business or personnel requirements.
Quality is sometimes proportional to cost. It
has been found that a quality product costs
more during the production.
Continuous improvement impacts on the
quality. It has been found that, continuous
improvement is a process that gives
incremental improvement to the products
and services. The business objectives can be
easily reached with quality service and
productivity.
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project
management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Describe the
history for the
quality movement.
According to the history of total quality
management, it was began initially as a term
that has been coined by the air systems
command used for describing the
management approach for improving the
overall quality. However, currently many
different quality management tool and
techniques are evolved for measuring the
quality of the service and products.
Currently TQM is defined as a systematic
approach that is widely used for measuring
the quality of any product or service.
Quality process specifies the principle and
process in details.
How do you ensure
quality in what you
do in life?
The quality of those what are done on the
daily lives can be measured using proper
quality management tools and techniques.
For personal skill and quality measurement
timely examination should be given and
accordingly proper training and development
program must be attended.
For personnel quality measurement
accurate standards and ISO 9000 series has
been evolved gradually to simplify the
process of quality management
appropriately.
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project
management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Describe the
processes you have
introduced to
ensure you deliver
In order to improve the quality of any project
or business it is necessary for the project
executives to take necessary steps:
Make commitment on the requirements
I think that proper timely examination is
required to ensure that the quality in what I
do in my life is proper.
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20009Unit Portfolio for Week (Insert week number)
Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
quality.
Portfolio Reflection
I have learned the details on continuous improvement and the impact of quality in the continuous improvement plan from the weekly learning.
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