PPMP20009 Course Portfolio - Life Cycles and Methodologies Review

This portfolio, designed for the PPMP20009 course, explores various aspects of project management, focusing on life cycles and methodologies. It includes a learning table summarizing key topics and readings, personal learning outcomes, and reflections on practical experiences. The portfolio addresses critical questions such as the essential qualities of a project manager, the financial dynamics of projects for external clients, and the impact of flexibility on executive acceptance of project management. It also delves into the establishment of prerequisites by project managers, the rights of project sponsors, and the identification of over-management scenarios. The portfolio references several sources including journals and standards such as the International Journal of Project Management and the Project Management Journal, and includes reflection on the importance of continuous improvement in project management practices, and the need to treat each project uniquely for effective implementation. This assignment is a student's contribution to Desklib, a platform offering AI-based study tools.

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Life Cycles and Methodologies
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note
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Table of Contents
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Portfolio Reflection........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 6
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Weekly Portfolio Learning Table
Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this course.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
What must the
project manager
provide in order to
develop a solid
project plan?
A project manager must be agile and creative. The project plans that I have created were
successful only when I was agile and had a
creative thinking process.
Stratton, K. L. (2017). U.S. Patent No.
20,170,344,011. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office.
For projects that
are done for
external sources,
the project
manager is first
viewed as starting
out with a pot of
gold and then as
having to manage
the project so that
sufficient profits
will be made for
the stockholders.
Why is this the
case? Explain.
The client is always billed at a much a higher
cost than the actual cost incurred.
My project team usually charged 1.5 times
the actual estimated cost to cover for any
risk and safety factor.
Kannisto, P. (2017). Sharing for profit: A new
business model?. Annals of Tourism Research,
66, 206-208.
Should age have a
bearing on how
long it takes an
executive to accept
project
management?
Age is not a factor but the inflexibility in
management is.
As long as the project manager is flexible in
decision-making and judgement, the
executives would quickly accept the
management.
Fleming, Q. W., & Koppelman, J. M. (2016,
December). Earned value project management.
Project Management Institute.
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this course.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
Should project
managers be
permitted to
establish
prerequisites for
top management
regarding standard
company
procedures?
Yes, the project managers should be allowed
to establish pre-conditions for standard
procedures of the company.
The top management is usually unaware of
the actual project scenarios and thus
instead of spending time to enlighten them,
it is far more time efficient for the project
managers to state some policies instead.
Bredillet, C., Tywoniak, S., & Dwivedula, R.
(2015). What is a good project manager? An
Aristotelian perspective. International Journal
of Project Management, 33(2), 254-266.
Does a project
sponsor have the
right to have an in-
house
representative
removed from his
company?
Yes, the project sponsor has the right to
remove any in-house representative.
The project sponsor can remove the in-
house representative form his own
company as long as it does not affect the
operations of the project company.
Kloppenborg, T. J., Tesch, D., & Manolis, C.
(2014). Project success and executive sponsor
behaviors: Empirical life cycle stage investigatio
When does project
management turn
into over
management?
The project management sometimes focuses
more on managing the personnel rather than
achieving the overall goal.
During certain critical projects, the project
management starts to focus more on
managing the personnel on the project
team instead of focussing on delivering the
project.
Turner, R. (2016). Gower handbook of project
management. Routledge.
What does a
program manager
bear final
responsibility for?
The successful delivery of the final projects. The program manager oversees that all the
projects within a certain program is
successfully delivered.
Chowdhury, M., Bausman, D., Keehan, M.,
Mitchell, J., & Islam, S. (2017). Professional
Services Contract (Program) Manager On-
Demand Training and Best Practices (No. FHWA-
SC-17-02).
Kerzner Chapter
1.8-1.10, & 10 &
Kerzner described the management
procedures as something that is necessary to
I have learnt that every project team needs
a management head who would guide
Kerzner, H. (2013). Project management: a
systems approach to planning, scheduling, and
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this course.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
11.25 successfully deliver projects. them. controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
PMI Implementing
Organizational PM
Chapter 3
Project management is important to
implement.
Many projects have failed due bad project
management.
Organizational Project Management Guide |
PMI. (2018). Pmi.org. Retrieved 10 January
2018, from https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-
standards/practice-guides/organizational
PMI Managing
Change Preface,
Chapters 1, 2 & 3
Project managers need to have a huge
knowledge base.
The knowledge base of a project manager
should be large to handle any project.
PMI and Change Management. (2018).
Managing Change In Organizations, 11-16.
Retrieved from
http://archive.copevents.pmi.org/docs/pmosym
p2013/thiry-managing-change-in-organizations
Journals &
Standards
 IJPM The journal supports project life cycles and
methodologies.
I was able to easily implement the
knowledge in real projects.
Management, I. (2018). International Journal of
Project Management. Journals.elsevier.com.
Retrieved 10 January 2018, from
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/internationa
l-journal-of-project-management
 PMJ Life cycles and methodologies are described in
detail.
Projects were successful due to good
guidance from existing projects.
Project Management Journal | PMI. (2018).
Pmi.org. Retrieved 10 January 2018, from
https://www.pmi.org/learning/publications/pro
ject-management-journal
 SAI Global Certain methodologies are described in detail. These methodologies were greatly helpful. Ethics & compliance - SAI Global. (2018).
SAIGlobal. Retrieved 10 January 2018, from
https://www.saiglobal.com/en-au/ethics_and_c
ompliance/
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Portfolio Reflection
I have learnt from reading the literature and from my personal experience that I have to improve more in project management. Every project is
unique in its own way and I should treat them as such for proper management implementation.
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