University Project Management Portfolio 10: Paraphrasing Analysis

This portfolio, submitted by a student, presents a detailed analysis of project management concepts, specifically focusing on paraphrasing, change management, resource allocation, and scope management. The document includes a series of responses to questions related to project management methodologies, drawing on readings from various authors. It covers topics such as change management practices, resource allocation strategies, scope management, and the importance of project team skills. The portfolio also includes personal reflections on the student's learning outcomes from the unit, connecting the theoretical concepts to practical scenarios and experiences. The student addresses questions about ensuring the right number of resources, managing project team skills, handling scope changes, and the reasons for changes in a project, demonstrating an understanding of key project management principles. The portfolio also includes an appendix with the student's weekly portfolio templates.

Running head: PORTFOLIO 10: PARAPHRASING
Portfolio 10: Paraphrasing
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Reference
Binder, J. (2016). Global project management: communication, collaboration and management
across borders. Routledge.
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 metrics, KPIs, and dashboards: a guide to measuring
and monitoring project performance. John Wiley & Sons.
Kerzner, H., 2018. Project management best practices: Achieving global excellence. John Wiley
& Sons.
Martinelli, R.J. and Milosevic, D.Z., 2016. Project management toolbox: tools and techniques
for the practicing project manager. John Wiley & Sons.
Nicholas, J.M. and Steyn, H., 2017. Project management for engineering, business and
technology. Routledge.
Svejvig, P. and Andersen, P., 2015. Rethinking project management: A structured literature
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Appendix
Portfolio 10
Topic and
reading
samples
Your personal
learning outcomes
from this unit
Learnings from your
experience
Supporting
documentation
including your prior
learnings
a) Kerzner
Chapter 20.0-
20.8, & 21.0-
21.4;
What is
change
The systematic approach
that helps the dealing of
various transitions and the
transformation of the goals
that needs to be achieved,
the process and the
organizational technologies
I have been able to gather
the idea that the change
management practises
which helps in bringing
about necessary changes in
the organization are
essential in an organization.
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R.,
2017. Project management: a
systems approach to
planning, scheduling, and
controlling. John Wiley &
Sons.

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Topic and
reading
samples
Your personal
learning outcomes
from this unit
Learnings from your
experience
Supporting
documentation
including your prior
learnings
management
?
is defined as the change
management process. The
first and foremost objective
of a change management
process is to go with the
older project management
methodologies as well as
implementing any necessary
change in the organization
including the proper
adaptation procedure of the
changes in the organization.
It has been found that there
are change management
strategies that are amply
structured on the process by
which changes are
implemented in an
organization. The proper
impact of a change
management process only
becomes applicable when
these processes reflect on all
the possible adjustments and
replacements well sought
according to the business
considerations made
accordingly. This would
affect positively on the
system and the processes in
the same way.
There are business
processes that need to go
through certain amount of
changes within the
organization rather than
progressing with the
traditional process for the
betterment of the
organization itself. The
business processes
followed for incorporating
several changes in a
business organization can
be listed as the following:
 Proper planning
 Appropriate
governance of the
project
 Assigning roles and
responsibilities to the
leaders
 Keeping all the project
stakeholders within a
loop.
Q1. Kerzner
Chapter 21.5-
21.8, & 22;
How do you
ensure you
have the
right number
of resources
for the
project?
It has been reported that
the demands and the
requirements of the
consumers change over time
in an exponential way and
therefore it is the
responsibility of the project
managers to allocate the
required changes in every
aspect of the business
organization as per
requirements. There are
Form this module, I have
gathered the knowledge
that besides the mandatory
aspect of having skills, the
experience and the
knowledge that the project
manager possesses can be
analysed in a proper way
with the help of the project
resources that have been
allocated within the project
and in the right amount.
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R.,
2017. Project management: a
systems approach to
planning, scheduling, and
controlling. John Wiley &
Sons.

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Topic and
reading
samples
Your personal
learning outcomes
from this unit
Learnings from your
experience
Supporting
documentation
including your prior
learnings
various ways that the
changes can be implemented
taking different
considerations into actions.
The right amount of
resources need to be
allocated, and this is to be
done as the steps provided
as follows:
Triple constraint
Scope: This is a factor which
checks the ensuring
resources needed for the
projects that are already in
progression within the
organization.
Cost: It needs to be made
sure that the project
expectations must tally along
with the project outcomes as
per the sponsor’s interest
and this need to be made
sure by the project manager.
Schedule: This is a constraint
of time that determines the
entire progression of a
project and to make out if
the project is going to be
completed successfully on
the given time.
This analysis would help in
successfully achieving the
set goals of the entire
project.
Q2 How do
you ensure
your project
team have
the correct
skills and
There are some key points of
having the right and
knowledge to find out the
functions of the people
involved in the project and
their skills required to bring
the project to completion. It
I have acquired the
knowledge that it is not just
the hiring process in an
organization that is
necessary but also the
hiring process in the project
team is essentially
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R.,
2017. Project management: a
systems approach to
planning, scheduling, and
controlling. John Wiley &
Sons.

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Topic and
reading
samples
Your personal
learning outcomes
from this unit
Learnings from your
experience
Supporting
documentation
including your prior
learnings
knowledge to
do their job?
Q3. How do
you manage
scope change
and ensure
there is no
scope creep?
is necessary that these skills
be evaluated to make sure
the people selected for a
project progression is able to
do the job perfectly. These
can be analyzed by following
the steps as listed as below:
 A proper test program to
evaluate the skills and
feasibility of the project
team.
 Hiring of experienced
project managers to
have a suitable
framework of tasks.
 Having the assurance
that knowledge transfer
for the project has been
done effectively among
the entire project team
allotted.
The scope management of a
project makes sure that
there is no abundance of
scope creep in a chosen
project and this is a process
that needs to analyse a
project well. Thus, proper
steps should be taken to
analyse the scope in a
project. These steps are as
described as below:
important. The skill set
arrangement and the
evaluation of the skills of
the hired people is also to
be taken into
consideration. I have also
learned that the time
required elaborately
evaluating and
implementing proper skill
set is also absolutely
necessary in the project.
This only adds to the
improvement of a project.
Scope management of any
project is absolutely
necessary and I have been
learning the importance of
the same so far. As far as
my knowledge, below are
the listed step that needs to
be undertaken for proper
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R.,
2017. Project management: a
systems approach to
planning, scheduling, and
controlling. John Wiley &
Sons

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Topic and
reading
samples
Your personal
learning outcomes
from this unit
Learnings from your
experience
Supporting
documentation
including your prior
learnings
Q 4.Why do
changes
happen in a
project?
 Agreement and changes
in a project
 Well-built executive
leadership
 Strong strategic
educational program
that is agreeable to all.
 A solid plan to assist the
success of the project
and measuring the
success as well.
The following are the reason
that changes generally occur
in a project during the entire
project propagation time:
 If the stakeholders of
the project changes their
mind about the
propagation of the
project.
 If the changes are
occurring only due to
the regulatory changes
made.
 If the project
requirements have been
defined in a less than
average standard then
change is required.
 It can also be induced by
scope analysis:
 Ownership
 Individual
encouragement
 New roles and
errands of the an
assortment of
consumers
I have analyzed to have a
proper competitive
advantage it is necessary so
that changes can be made
within the project, which
can be done to gain an
upper hand over the target
market. Reports suggest
that the changes within the
project helps in keeping the
project updated.
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R.,
2017. Project management: a
systems approach to
planning, scheduling, and
controlling. John Wiley &
Sons

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Topic and
reading
samples
Your personal
learning outcomes
from this unit
Learnings from your
experience
Supporting
documentation
including your prior
learnings
Q5. Have you
ever in your
personal life
experienced
the need for
change? How
do
you handle
this? What
did you do?
the changes in the
sponsorship of the
project.
There once and incident that
had occurred during my
period of attending the
school, where I was once
endowed with an
assignment. I had sensed a
need to implement changes
in the assignment only for
the requirement of putting
the assignment up with the
standardized forms of the
project management to put
it up with the new lessons
that I have learned.
I have also made points to
implement the changes in
the assigned project and the
processes by which these
changes can be managed
easily in a feasible way.
These changes were
implemented as per my
learnings.
This has been done mostly to
maintain the standard
quality of a task and so that
the project could bring about
proper learning outcomes to
those who might study the
project later.
I have acquired the
knowledge that to
successfully handle any
difficulty occurring in the
change management of a
process and resolving the
same the following steps
come most at handy at any
given point of time:
 Taking ample amount
of time to sought out
the changes needed.
 Having knowledge
about the proper
changes that are
needed within the
project
 Managing the changes
that are required by
fixing it.
 Finding a proper
prospect to implement
successful
management of the
changes.
 Training the employees
and monitoring their
advances form one of
the most important
factor of managing a
change management
successfully within an
organization..