PPMP20009 Unit Portfolio: A Weekly Reflection on Project Management

This PPMP20009 unit portfolio documents weekly reflections on project management topics, learning outcomes, and experiences. It includes discussions on project manager skills, continuous improvement, and the application of project management principles in real-life scenarios. The portfolio references Kerzner and other relevant sources, providing supporting documentation of prior and current learning. The student reflects on the differences between project management practices today versus ten years ago, and how personal approaches to tasks have evolved. The document showcases a learning journey through critical thinking and practical application of project management concepts. Desklib provides access to a wide array of study tools and solved assignments 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 organisations employ the best
staff? In particular, how does an
organisation find the best project
manager?
The organization uses filter process in order
to recruit the staff. The various steps are
indulged in order to judge the capability of
the employees during the hiring process.
The project manager has to maintain certain
quality. Organizations generally search for
the project managers who have qualities to
deliver the project in right way and have the
past experience of working in a project.
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project
management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
What skills do you think are needed for a
good project manager? Why?
The skills those are needed for a good
project manager are- the integrity, domain
knowledge , leadership quality, an dability
to choose the right way for implementation
of the project. These qualities will help to
deliver the project to the clients in a right
way and the outcome of the project will be
positive.
Kerzner, H., 2017. Project Management
Methodologies. Project Management Case
Studies, pp.1-27.
Kerzner Chapter 1 What happens when an organisation
selects the wrong project manager?
In case, if the organization chooses the
wrong project manager, the requirements
of the project may not become clear to the
other team members of the project
management team. The right methodology
may not be selected and the scope creep of
in the project may happen. Overall result of
choosing the wrong project manager is the
ultimate failure of the project.
Hornstein, H.A., 2015. The integration of project
management and organizational change
management is now a necessity. International
Journal of Project Management, 33(2), pp.291-
298.
Do you think project managers of today
are different from project manager ten
years ago? How are they different?
Projects managers of today are different
form the project managers from the
previous years. The main difference lies on
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from thisunit.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
the working of the project manager. The
managers from the previous years are not
concerned about using the project
management tools. Nowadays different
project management tools are deployed by
the project managers in order to compile
the project in a accurate way.
Egelstaff (2013)
Academic
assignments:
Critical thinking
and writing
critically
Are you different in how you do things
today as compared to ten years ago?
Yes, the approach towards doing the things
are different from the approach of doing
the things in ten years ago. The perception
and the experience has i improved the way
of doing things after ten years.
Do you ever try to improve your efficiency
in how you do things?
Yes I have tried to improve the efficiency in
doing things.
Journals &
Standards
How do you improve? What do you do? I have tried to take the feedbacks of my
doings from others. Taking feedback helps
to improve the way of approach. Apart form
that, I try to find the alternative of doing the
same task in an efficient way.
References
Hornstein, H.A., 2015. The integration of project management and organizational change management is now a necessity. International Journal of Project
Management, 33(2), pp.291-298.
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Kerzner, H., 2017. Project Management Methodologies. Project Management Case Studies, pp.1-27.
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