Project Management Course Portfolio - Week (Insert week number)

This portfolio represents a student's work for a Project Management course, focusing on methodologies and continuous improvement. It includes a learning table that summarizes key topics, reading samples, personal learning outcomes, and reflections on the course material. The portfolio delves into project management principles, the characteristics of projects, and the importance of critical thinking and writing. It also references several academic sources, including journal articles and standards, to support the student's understanding of the subject. The reflection highlights the student's comprehension of continuous improvement methodologies like Kaizen and their application in project management, identifying opportunities for streamlining work and reducing waste. The portfolio emphasizes the integration of both formal and informal approaches to project management, providing a comprehensive overview of the student's learning journey.

(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20009 Course Portfolio for Week (Insert week number)
Project Management Course – Methodologies
Continuous improvement
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20009 Course Portfolio for Week (Insert week number)
Weekly Portfolio Learning Table:
Topic and reading
samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this course.
Leanings from your experience. Supporting documentation including
your prior leanings.
Why Project
Management?
Project management is a technique to
initiate, plan, execute, control and close
the working of a team for achieving
some specific goals and thus meet some
specific targets.
The primary task of the project
management is to achieve all the goals
where the constraints are time, scope,
quality and budget.
Schwalbe, K., 2015. Information
technology project management. Cengage
Learning.
Kerzner Chapter 1 The chapter consists of characteristics
of project, components of complex
projects, identification of problems and
solutions and many more.
The learning outcome of this chapter
is that there is an existence of
collective beliefs. This can make a
rational organization act by refusing
the unwanted topics.
Kerzner, H., 2013. Project management: a
systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley &
Sons.
Egelstaff (2013)
Academic
assignments:
Critical thinking
and writing
critically
This is the technique that involves the
usage of the range of writing skills along
with the personal qualities and
gathering knowledge to represent the
effective arguments. Critical thinking is
Persistent, Sceptical and looking ahead.
I have learned that the critical
thinking and writing critically is
integral to the activity of the scholar.
Explaining the three formal s Judicial,
deliberative and Epideictic.
DeAbreu Faria, F., Macada, A.C.G. and
Kumar, K., 2013. Information Governance
Annotated Bibliography. In International
Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
(Vol. 4436, p. 4445).
Journals &
Standards
 IJPM This journal offers a huge range of Providing the expertise field in the Keegan, A., Ringhofer, C. and Huemann,
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Topic and reading
samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this course.
Leanings from your experience. Supporting documentation including
your prior leanings.
comprehensive coverage of all level of
project management.
techniques, practice and research
areas required.
M., 2017. Human resource management
and project based organizing: Fertile
ground, missed opportunities and
prospects for closer connections.
International Journal of Project
Management.
 PMJ Focuses on the shape thinking core
competencies, describing the current
practice and discussing the mega
projects.
Understanding the aspects of the
organizational project management in
various companies along with the
strategies.
Söderlund, J. and Müller, R., 2014. Project
management and organization theory:
IRNOP Meets PMJ. Project Management
Journal, 45(4), pp.2-6.
 SAI Global It is a risk management, standards
compliances and information of
business.
This helps the organization to make
intelligent possible risks by helping
the organization proactively
management of the risks to reach the
business excellence target, growth
and sustainability.
Niazi, M., Mahmood, S., Alshayeb, M., Riaz,
M.R., Faisal, K., Cerpa, N., Khan, S.U. and
Richardson, I., 2016. Challenges of project
management in global software
development: A client-vendor analysis.
Information and Software Technology,
80, pp.1-19.
Portfolio Reflection:
I have understood by the researching some of the journals that Continuous improvement or Kaizen is the methodology to identify the opportunity
for streaming the work and thus reduction of wastes take place. The uses of this formalized by the popularity of Agile in the business as well as
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manufacturing and thus are used by several organizations in terms to identify saving opportunities. Kaizen is a flexible practice that could be viewed
or an informal set of guideline. Thus by studying the perspective the project management may focus more on the formal approaches.
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