PPMP20009 Unit Portfolio: Continuous Improvement, Tools & Quality

This PPMP20009 Unit Portfolio delves into the crucial aspects of continuous improvement plans and quality management within business organizations. It highlights the importance of utilizing appropriate tools and techniques, such as the 7QC tools, to achieve superior product quality and enhance business revenue. The portfolio reflects on personal learning outcomes, emphasizing the significance of continuous self-improvement and the value of quality in meeting consumer requirements, managing brand reputation, and controlling overall business costs. It further discusses the history of quality improvement, the impact of quality on continuous improvement plans, and the processes involved in ensuring and delivering quality, including problem identification, cause analysis, and process standardization. The reflection underscores the importance of adopting and properly applying quality management tools for long-term business sustainability.

(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20009Unit Portfolio for Week (Insert week number)
Weekly Portfolio 2
Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this unit.
Learnings from your
experience.
Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
a) Kerzner Chapter
20.0-20.8, & 21.0-
21.4;
b) PMI
Implementing
Organizational PM
PM Appendices X2
& X3;
This specific chapter of this book deals with
the role of continuous improvement plan in
different business organizations. It is also
defined that, proper tools and techniques
must be used to achieve better quality
products to gain business revenue. For the
success of the quality program necessary
essential success tools and basic techniques
should be considered accordingly.
This chapter on Modern Developments in
Project Management Growth has extensively
defined that how a project management
practice is continuously evolving
From through readings of the course
program it has been found that in order to
gain effective commercial success and
continuous improvement the companies
should use the 7QC tools and techniques.
From these tools two tools for
identification, three tools for analysis and
there are two tools for both analysis and
identification.
Identification
 Flow chart
 check sheet
Analysis
 Histogram
 control chart
 scatter plot
both
 Pareto hart
 cause and effect diagram
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project
management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley &
Sons.
Q1. Personal life
continuous
improvement plan
For person el improvement program I do
always believe in continuous improvement
plan. I think that with successful continuous
improvement program Any person can gain
effective skills and knowledge from the
different sectors. In my personal life I have
realized that I gained continuous
improvement during my schooling and
college life.
Self continuous improvement will give me
high level of opportunities to become a self
aware person. By attending every lecture
classes during college days and in the
school days I think I have successfully
gained continuous improvements.
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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.
Q2. What is quality
Q3. How quality
affect continuous
improvement plan
Quality is an important term in business.
Regardless and size and complexity of any
project and business quality is an important
term that has to be considered for the
success.
Quality affects the overall continuous
improvement plan. It can be said, that it is not
necessary that each time even after
maintaining the continuous improvement
plan the necessary quality of the programs
are not achieving. This is the responsibility of
the project managers to take adequate
actions to improve the quality of the business.
The Quality of any project deals with the
following:
 Meeting the set of preliminary
requirements of the consumers
 Managing brand value and
reputation of the business
organizations
 Meeting the standards of the
industries
 Managing the overall cost needed
for the business
Quality can affect the continuous
improvement plan with the followings:
 Effective measurable revenue
 Competitive advantages
 Reputation and brand value
 Attract many consumers
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project
management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley &
Sons.
Q4History of
quality
improvement
In previous days the quality improvement
program are generally used in the various
industries. The actions of an entire business
landscape will automatically change with the
successful implementation of the quality
improvement. Graphical problem solving
methods were primarily used in traditional
quality improvement program.
In traditional days for developing the
quality management concept, these steps
are eventually followed:
 Quality control corrective actions
 Quality control preventive actions
 Quality management system
 TQM
 Quality award program
I have learned that with the successful
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project
management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley &
Sons.
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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.
Q5. How do you
ensure quality?
Q6. What
processes have
introduced to
ensure deliver
quality?
In order to ensure the quality of any business,
the manufacturer should analyse the
following outcome and factors:
 Increment in productivity
 Improvement in quality
 Decrement in cost
 Delivery timing delivery
 Improvement of the employee
satisfaction level.
The processes those have been introduces to
deliver quality are as follows:
 Identification of the problem areas
 Causes analysis
 Potential solution identification
 Process standardization
implementation quality improvement plan
feedback from the consumer’s end are very
much necessary to be considered.
Every business have proper quality
management committee. They are
responsible to take necessary actions to
develop quality management plan to give
long term sustainability to the business
organizations.
Portfolio Reflection:
From the week 9 lectures and courses I have learned the details of the continuous improvement plan and its importance in the business organizations. In
order to gain long term business sustainability proper tools and techniques of quality management should be adopted by the business owners. Not only the
adoption but also proper applications of the tools are also very much necessary to be considered by the project executives.
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