PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio Week 1: Systems Thinking Relevance

This assignment, a portfolio entry for PPMP20012 at CQUniversity, delves into the critical relationship between systems thinking and project management. The student, through mandatory and optional readings including SEBoK, Kerzner, and AS/NZS 15288, explores how systems thinking provides a framework for analyzing interrelations within projects, contrasting it with traditional approaches. The assignment emphasizes Systems Engineering and Project Management (SEPM) as a collaborative methodology to address complex challenges, ensuring project success through technical and administrative efforts. The document highlights the importance of this approach for portfolio, program, and project managers to understand interrelations and achieve project goals. The student uses the Agile methodology and references to large project failures to illustrate the significance of integrating systems thinking for effective project outcomes. References include APM's resource on systems thinking in portfolio, programme, and project management.

name/ student id - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 1
Week 1 Topic: Explain the relevance of systems thinking to PM.
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
Mandatory Readings
 SEBoK:
'Introduction to
SEBoK'
 SEBoK:
'Introduction to
Systems
Engineering';
 SEBoK: Part 7:
Systems
Engineering
Implementation
Examples
 Kerzner (2013)
Chapters 2.1; 2.6 -
2.8; 2.21;
 AS/NZS
15288:2015
Introduction;
Optional Readings
 AS ISO
21504:2016
Project,
programme and
portfolio
management—
Guidance on
portfolio
1. Explain the
relevance of
systems thinking to
the project,
program and
portfolio manager.
I have learnt by perusing compulsory and supporting materials that Systems
Thinking and Project Management both are like one another. To keep away
from the entanglements and build up the unpredictable undertakings with
improved quality, Systems Thinking is utilized in the difference of task the board.
Frameworks Thinking is a layout which has been utilized to dissect interrelations
between things as opposed to things. It is utilized to discover examples as
opposed to static shots. This diagram is utilized in various fields to deal with the
intricate ventures. To pursue this blueprint in the task the executives, the
specialized pioneers and administrators see each other's necessities and needs
with the goal that they can work constituently in a cooperative and incorporated
way.
This framework coordinates framework science and frameworks way to deal
with oversee and practice the mind boggling frameworks. It is considered as
piece of frameworks learning which guarantee the scholarly establishment. It is
utilized to discover the ideas, examples, standards and devices with the goal
that they could be available to frameworks designing. Generally it is engaged to
comprehend the issue circumstances.
Frameworks Engineering is a methodology related with Systems Thinking in
which specialized and administrative endeavors are required to change the
framework as per client desires, needs, and limitations. Frameworks Thinking
help to gain proficiency with the circumstances of the perplexing issue
dependent on which the specialized group and the board assemble the enhance
venture.
The Agile methodology depends on the Systems Engineering just as Project
Apm, A. (2013). Systems
thinking in portfolio,
programme and project
management | APM.
[online] Apm.org.uk.
Available at:
https://www.apm.org.uk
/resources/find-a-
resource/systems-
thinking-in-portfolio-
programme-and-project-
management/
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name/ student id - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 1
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
management; Management which is utilized to assemble the venture dependent on the
creative needs, desires and requirements of the clients.
The undertaking director, program administrator or portfolio supervisor of an
association pursue the SEPM (Systems Engineering and Project Management) to
guarantee the achievement of a task, program or a portfolio with the evolving
needs, limitations and desires for the client. This joint methodology has been
utilized in the different segments to put specialized and administrative
endeavors for guaranteeing the accomplishment of venture, program or a
portfolio.
In the event that I think about some enormous venture disappointment, at that
point I can locate that a portion of the task disappointment are asserted
because of specialized
glitches and some of them are because of administrative issues. Hence, it has
closed by me that to have an effective task it must need the specialized
endeavors and administrative endeavors. Here, the Systems Thinking based
SEPM assumes an imperative job.
The venture the executives is the administration of impermanent undertaking,
program the executives is the administration of bound together tasks to
accomplish the point and portfolio the board is the administration of brought
together activities and projects. In these three administration, the Systems
Thinking can be utilized by the administration to comprehend the interrelations
between the frameworks parts with the goal that their extension can be
accomplished effectively. Despite the fact that huge numbers of the
administrators have been thinking about the cooperative energies of SE and PM
to guarantee the achievement of any frameworks for the long life.
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name/ student id - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 1
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
References
Apm, A. (2013). Systems thinking in portfolio, programme and project management | APM. [online] Apm.org.uk. Available at: https://www.apm.org.uk/resources/find-a-
resource/systems-thinking-in-portfolio-programme-and-project-management/
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