PPMP20009 Project Management: Building a Learning Portfolio Weekly

This document represents a student's weekly portfolio for the PPMP20009 Project Management unit. It includes reflections on learning outcomes, experiences, and supporting documentation. The portfolio structure is based on examples from Athabasca University and emphasizes critical thinking and professional development. The student reflects on various project management concepts, including resource management, scope change, quality assurance, and the role of a project manager. The portfolio also references key readings from Kerzner and PMI, along with personal experiences related to change management and continuous improvement. The aim is to demonstrate a learning journey and evolving understanding of project management principles. The student also answers questions related to ethics, best practices, and the differences between planning and forecasting in project management. This document serves as a cohesive account of work-based learning, showcasing the student's achievement of professional competence and knowledge development. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and past papers for students.

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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 ensure you have the right
number of resources for the project?
The right resource of the project
management will ensure that the following
works or steps can be carried using those
resources.
Kerzner Chapter 21
Kerzner Chapter 1 How do you ensure your project team
have the correct skills and knowledge to
do their job?
During the selection of the team members
the knowledge and skills of the individual
will be judged.
Egelstaff (2013)
Academic
assignments:
Critical thinking
and writing
critically
How do you manage scope change and
ensure there is no scope creep?
Scope change refers to the change in the
requirement from the project. The scope
creep can not be eliminated completely.
However, the chances of the scope creep
can be mitigated through the clarification of
the requirements.
Journals &
Standards
Why do changes happen in a project? The changes happen in the project for many
reasons. Sometimes , the clients of the
project wants to add extra feature in the
outcome, sometimes the requirements are
not documented properly. In both the cases
the change in the requirement can happen.
Have you ever in your personal life
experienced the need for change? How
do you handle this? What did you do?
I have experienced the need of change in
my personal life for the good reason. Firstly,
I have tried to understand the modified
requirement for which the change is
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from thisunit.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
needed. After that I have made plan to
achieve the modified requirement.
References
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017.
Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
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