PPMP20011 Unit Portfolio: Week 7 - Disputes, Claims, Variations

This assignment, a student's portfolio for Week 7 of the PPMP20011 unit, focuses on disputes, claims, variations, and arbitration in project management, particularly within the context of collaborative project procurement arrangements. The student analyzes key readings, including works by Walker and Walker (2015) and Cheung & Chow (2011), exploring topics such as the role of the project manager in commercial negotiation, strategies to avoid disputes, and the impact of variations. The portfolio includes reflections on the researchers' viewpoints, the adequacy of data sources, and the relevance of the readings to real-world scenarios. The student connects this week's topics to previous units, highlighting the importance of communication, negotiation tactics, and conflict resolution strategies like smoothing, with references to additional readings and insights from other units. The assignment aims to enhance understanding of commercial project negotiation and its practical application in project management.

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Weekly Portfolio Learning Table
Description of
topics including
reading samples
Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your experience, this and prior unit
reading, assignments
Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
Week 7 Topic:
Disputes, Claims,
Variations, and
Arbitration.
Collaborative Project
Procurement
Arrangements
(2015) by Derek H. T.
Walker and Beverly
M. Lloyd Walker;
Cheung S.O., & and
Chow P.T. 2011.
Withdrawal in
Construction Project
Dispute Negotiation.
Journal of
Construction
Engineering and
Management.
Volume 137, Issue 12
Stressing territories
of any type of
disputes, claims,
variations and
arbitration as
opposed to regions of
distinction; are
yielding one's
situation to the
necessities of others
to keep up congruity
and connections.
This approach
perceives the
significance of expert
connections to
extend achievement.
On long haul
ventures, anything
over fourteen days,
continuing on and
fortifying the
undertaking group
turns out to be
The objective of this week’s topic is to make sure you have an appreciation of
the Role of the Project Manager in Commercial Negotiation.
Try to ask yourself the questions that were in the slides in the 9thweek’s lecture:-
1. What is the Consequence of Disputes, Claims, Variations, and
Arbitration?
The question infers declaration of a claim by one gathering and disavowal which
isn't getting destitute, which will clearly influence his capacity to perform.
Frequently, one authority each is designated by the contractual worker and the
proprietor. They have variety orders settled without lifting them to the status of
cases.
2. How can we Avoid Disputes, Claims, Variations, and Arbitration?
With help of procedures and practices we can avoid or decrease the Disputes,
Claims, Variations, and Arbitration of cases, of ventures with assertion provisos
had claims, and claim-to-settlement esteem proportions
3. What happens if we don’t Avoid Disputes, Claims, Variations, and
Arbitration?
If we don’t Avoid Disputes, Claims, Variations, and Arbitration then there can be
variations in the project and late confirmation. Especially in the cases of
construction projects.
Walker & Walker (2015) discuss a their Study Approachwhat are your thoughts
regarding:
4. Does the World View of the Researchers Matter?
Yes, it helps in best arrangements for the procurement.
5. Has the research been adequately Validated?
Yes, it validated with fact the collaborative approach brings valuable input into
the research for procurement arrangements.
PPMP20011Unit Profile
PPMP20011 Moodle
Web site
Have you any insights
you can add from other
units you have studies or
readings you’ve made?
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Description of
topics including
reading samples
Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your experience, this and prior unit
reading, assignments
Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
imperative. All things
considered, venture
colleagues are always
underscoring
contrasts, gaining
ground on the
undertaking turns out
to be extremely
troublesome.
Walker & Walker (2015) then in Chapter 5 discuss Data and Information
resources that they accessed in undertaking the research what are your
thoughts regarding:
6. Are the sources adequate for the researchers?
Yes, the sources mentioned are adequate for the researchers.
7. Are they adequate for us and our topic of Commercial Negotiation?
Yes, it helps in dispute negotiation in the construction engineering and
management.
S.O. Cheung & and P. T. Chow in 2011consider the topic of Withdrawal in
Construction Project Dispute Negotiation;what are your thoughts regarding:
8. Are the assumptions in Cheung & Chow’s research and hypotheses
reasonable?
Yes, the assumptions in Cheung & Chow’s research and hypotheses are
reasonable which helps in project dispute negotiation.
9. Are the results of the true and false Hypotheses believable in your
experience?
Yes, they believable they will utilize the assumptions based on certain criteria
for the project.
In conclusion to this week:
10. Do the ideas in Chapter 5 help in structuring your thoughts around
Commercial Project Negotiation?
Yes, these ideas have given understanding about the commercial project
negotiation which has structured the thoughts around the commercial project
negotiation.
11. How does this week’s topic relate to the previous weeks topics?
This week topic is about dispute, claims and this is directly related to the
negotiation tactics required for any kind of agreement in previous week topic.
12. How relevant are the thoughts of Alfredson & Cungu from the Food and
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outcomes of the
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Supporting
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including your
prior learning
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in the context of this
chapter? Or are we looking at completely different ideas?
In the context of this chapter, transaction is a procedure that can be drawn
closer from numerous points of view. Regardless procedure you pick,
achievement lies in how well you arranged. The way to arranging a helpful result
is the arbitrators' capacity to consider every one of the components of the
circumstance painstakingly and to recognize and thoroughly consider the
alternatives. In the meantime, arbitrators must have the capacity to keep
occasions in context and be as reasonable and legitimate as situation permits.
Since a shared view or intrigue hosts conveyed the gatherings to the arranging
table, a mediator can profit by endeavoring to benefit from this shared opinion.
By taking a gander at the opposite side as an accomplice instead of an adversary
and by cooperating, mediators have a chance to create an answer that will be
advantageous to the two sides.
Are any of the
activities above
relevant to your
reflections for the
learning outcomes
on the right?
Strategies
incorporate detailing
rules, formats,
meeting standard
procedures and
systems, messaging
rules basic leadership
forms, critical
thinking approaches,
compromise
methods, and main
driver investigation.
Correspondence is a
two way road, and
the PM needs to
Have you any insights
you can add from other
units you have studies or
readings you’ve made?
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Description of
topics including
reading samples
Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your experience, this and prior unit
reading, assignments
Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
guarantee that
movement streams
openly in the two
headings. Tuning in
and watching non-
verbal signs is at any
rate as imperative as
talking, and this
features the need to
really observe
colleagues. Especially
at dispatch, it's a
smart thought to get
everybody together.
Individual contact
helps construct
connections that
grease up the stream
of data.
Are any of the
activities above
relevant to your
reflections for the
learning outcomes
on the right?
Any task faces
deferrals and
disturbances
particularly the
uber/complex
activities of today,
with numerous
interfaces.
Demonstrating delay
as well as disturbance
Have you any insights
you can add from other
units you have studies or
readings you’ve made?
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outcomes of the
unit
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Supporting
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isn't a simple
undertaking and it is
a tedious procedure
particularly in the
super/complex tasks
with a huge number
of exercises, loads of
points of interest and
interfaces with the
contribution of
numerous partners.
The diverse strategies
that are utilized to
demonstrate delays,
as clarified in industry
guidelines and
handbooks, are
hypothetical and
could be connected in
the little
straightforward
ventures with few
quantities of
exercises yet similar
techniques can't
without much of a
stretch be connected
on super/complex
undertakings.
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topics including
reading samples
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outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your experience, this and prior unit
reading, assignments
Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
Are any of the
activities above
relevant to your
reflections for the
learning outcomes
on the right?
Smoothing is
additionally alluded
to as pleasing or
obliging style. In this
approach, the
territories of
assention are
underscored and the
zones of difference
are made light of.
Clashes are not
generally settled in
the smoothing mode.
A gathering may
forfeit it's own
particular concerns or
objectives keeping in
mind the end goal to
fulfill the worries or
objectives of the
other party.
Have you any insights
you can add from other
units you have studies or
readings you’ve made?
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References
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Kerzner H. 2013.Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Control, 11th Edition. Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons.
Peña-Mora F., and Tamaki T. 2001. "Effect of Delivery Systems on Collaborative Negotiations for Large -Scale Infrastructure Projects”. Journal of
Management in Engineering. Vol:April 2001 pp.105-121
PMI. 2013a.A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) 5th Edition. USA: Project Management Institute.
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