University Course PPMP20009: Weekly Portfolio Learning Table

This assignment is a weekly portfolio for a project management course (PPMP20009), detailing the student's learning journey. It explores project management fundamentals, emphasizing the importance of breaking down projects into manageable tasks, resource allocation, and adherence to critical paths. The student discusses the use of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for defining deliverables and scheduling tasks, highlighting its significance in project planning and scope management. The portfolio reflects on the application of critical thinking and writing skills, along with strategies for team member engagement. The student references various journals and standards, including IJPM, PMJ, and SAI Global, to gain insights into project complexities, risk management, and prioritization. Furthermore, it reflects on the planning and scheduling of tasks, the role of organizational requirements, and the use of WBS for budget establishment and performance tracking. It also highlights potential pitfalls, such as poor financial estimates and the importance of maintaining a streamlined WBS, particularly for small and medium-scale projects.

(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.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
Why Project
Management?
Project management will help me in breaking
down a total work or project into multiple
smaller task that are mainly deliverable
oriented.
The knowledge acquired from this project
management course will help me in planning
for the optimal use of the available resources
that are required to complete a given project.
Moreover, it will help in following the critical
path in a project when there is a strict dead
line that needs to be followed. Without
proper planning and scheduling of the tasks
the outcome of the project will deviate from
the desired output set by the project
manager.
Use of the WBS helps in determining the
detailed deliverable for each level of the
WBS. With this tool the scheduling of the
different tasks which needs to be
streamlined in order to complete any
project in the given deadline. For the
smaller projects it is important to maintain
the WBS till third level otherwise the project
plan and schedule becomes unnecessarily
complex.
Riol, H., & Thuillier, D. (2015). Project
management for academic research projects:
balancing structure and flexibility. International
Journal of Project Organisation and
Management, 7(3), 251-269.
Kerzner Chapter 1 The planning and scheduling plays an
important role in scope management for a
certain project. We found that, the human
resource management and schedule
management is important in order to achieve
better success rate in the projects.
The work description and the developed WBS
must be easily understandable so that every
team member in a project team can have
clear idea about their responsibilities that
needs to be completed by them in order to
complete the project.
In any project the functional manager has a
vital role in scheduling the tasks required to
complete a project in optimum use of the
resources and pre-determined time. From
the different previous projects, I found that
every project has its own requirements that
can be addressed only with the tailored
project management methodology.
Kerzner, H. (2013). Project management: a
systems approach to planning, scheduling, and
controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Egelstaff (2013) The critical thinking and writing skills acquired From the previous projects I have learned to Turner, R. (2016). Gower handbook of project
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20009 Course Portfolio for Week (Insert week number)
Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from this course.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
Academic
assignments:
Critical thinking
and writing
critically
by going through the assignments and
throughout the course is helpful in adapting
with different circumstances in order to
maximise the use of the available resources in
order to deliver better ROI (return on
investment) against the organisation's
investment.
apply different strategies in order to gain
commitment from the different team
members. In addition to that the
transforming my ideas into practical
organizational solutions for the identified
problems. With this learnings from my
experience I will be able to leverage a range
of tools that will help in managing the
available resources as well as implementing
my ideas.
management. Routledge.
Alvarez-Dionisi, L. E., Turner, R., & Mittra, M.
(2016). Global project management
trends. International Journal of Information
Technology Project Management (IJITPM), 7(3),
54-73.
Journals &
Standards
 IJPM This a journal that covers and publishes the
trends that are used in the different projects
completed or going on throughout the world
thus helped me to gain knowledge about the
different techniques and tools.
The journal will be helpful in acquiring and
implementing different techniques and
tools in order to manage the project with
the optimum use of resources so that the
deviation between the desired output and
outcome of a project.
 PMJ From this journal, the complexities of the
different projects, their risks and resource
management plans can help me in respective
fields of a project.
With the better knowledge of the
complexity of the projects, I will be able to
improve the planning and scheduling for
different projects.
 SAI Global From this journal I learned about prioritizing
the different tasks in the planning phase of
the project.
It will help me in the prioritization of the
tasks as well following the critical path for
the project so that project can be
completed if it is running behind the
schedule.
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Portfolio Reflection
Planning and scheduling of the different tasks inside any project environment can be described as the activities that are required for launching a fixed
course of action within a predicted environment so the pre-determined objectives of the organization or the project team. I also learned that the
requirements of the organizations play a vital role in setting major milestones for a certain project. These pre-determined project milestones need to be
meet by the project managers and the functional managers. Having the project work statement or the SOW the project manager as well as the team have
to set the objectives for different time periods. In order to achieve these objectives, we have to outline the necessary tasks using the WBS (work break
down structure) in order to achieve those objectives.
As most of the project planning includes the responsibility of distinguishing the required resources that should be required at any point of the project. In
most of the cases it is frequently observed that minor requirements are ignored from the project requirements list. For instance, if a project targets
incorporating another sub project administrator/manager, at that point it is important to allocate proper resources to avoid un necessary delay in the
middle of execution of a project plan. A point by point and detailed list of required resources helps project plans and budget more accurate.
With the use of the WBS, the Cost for the different tasks in the project, budgets can be established in an accurate manner. Performance of the team
members can be easily tracked depending upon their achievement of deliverables at the end of every stage. The project objectives can be aligned to
different available resources in order to complete the project in the predetermined time.
The project management plan that comprehend and incorporates too much deliverables in too little time period can lead to the failure of the projects. The
reason behind this can be stated as poor financial estimates for the task schedules and plans that are based on insufficient data.
Usually small and medium scale projects mainly depend on the three level work break down structure or WBS. In this work break down structure Level 1 of
it is used to define authorization and responsibilities of the tasks or work in the project. Level 2 for formulating the budget for the project and the last level
or level 3 to prepare schedules for the tasks defined in the level 1.
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