PPMP20013 Portfolio Week 5: Project Management Strategies & Safety

This assignment, a portfolio contribution by M MudabbirAhsan (12047786) for the PPMP20013 course, focuses on project management. It analyzes major processes based on sound policy, information, and research, enabling project justification, tenders, and contracts. The report details the management of project requirements, change processes, and strategies for ensuring safety and quality. It explores document management, governance processes, and strategies to avoid overruns. The portfolio also covers implications of safety, modern approaches to extended projects, and the importance of sustainability. Key topics include stakeholder identification, requirement gathering, document specification, and change management, with references to Levy (2012) and other relevant sources. The assignment emphasizes practical application and critical analysis of project management principles to ensure successful project outcomes.

(M MudabbirAhsan) / (12047786) - PPMP20013 Course Portfolio for Week (5)
Learning
outcomes of the
course
Description oftopics
including reading
samples
Learnings from your experience Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
3. Present and
interpret major
processes that are
based on sound
policy,
information, and
research that
enable project
justification,
tenders, contracts,
and selection
criteria to occur in
an asset rich
organisation.
Week 6: Manage the project
requirements and change
processes.
Levy (2012) Chapters 9 & 10.
Australian Contractors
Association (ACA) (1999)
Relationship Contracting.
QLD Government's Department
of State Development,
Infrastructure and Planning web
page for BMA's Caval Ridge
Mine.
I have learned the processes that are dependent on sound policy, research as
well as information for managing the project requirements as well as change
procedures. The processes include:
Identifying stakeholders
 gathering requirements
 analyzing requirements
 Specifying documents
 Baseline documents requirements
 Communicate requirements
 Monitoring requirements
 Managing and controlling changes to requirements
Levy S. M. 2012. Project
Management in
Construction, 6th Edition.
USA: McGraw-Hill.
4. Critically analyse
management
strategies and
operational
activities from a
broad perspective
to ensure safety
and quality, to
avoid overruns or
rework, to manage
variations and
Week 6: Manage the project
requirements and change
processes.
Levy (2012) Chapters 9 & 10.
Australian Contractors
Association (ACA) (1999)
Relationship Contracting.
Week 8: Design and apply
I have learnt various strategies that are quite helpful in ensuring safety and
quality for avoiding overruns. The strategies include:
 The need of the project must be analyzed properly
 The project requirement must be managed properly
 The requirement of the project must be fulfilled
I have learnt that there number of strategies that are quite helpful in providing
Levy S. M. 2012. Project
Management in
Construction, 6th Edition.
USA: McGraw-Hill.
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(M MudabbirAhsan) / (12047786) - PPMP20013 Course Portfolio for Week (5)
Learning
outcomes of the
course
Description oftopics
including reading
samples
Learnings from your experience Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
claims, and to
make decisions to
discontinue or
close projects.
document management and
governance processes.
Levy (2012) Chapters 12.
Week 9: Manage change,
disputes, arbitration and
mediation.
Levy (2012) Chapters 13.
Week 10: Critically analyse the
implications and impacts of
safety.
Levy (2012) Chapters 14.
AS 1470-1986 Health and safety
at work - Principles and practices
Safe Work Australia web site.
Week 11: Explore modern
approaches to extended
projects.
Levy (2012) Chapters 15.
Australian Constructors
Association news and
publications.
safety in context to design and apply documents management. The strategies
include:
 The document must contain proper information
 The governance procedures must be properly elaborated
I have learnt various implications as well as impacts of safety include:
It helps in executing the project successfully
 The project does not face any type of risks as well as challenges
 The impact of risk on the project is quite low.
I have identified that there are number of modern approaches for extending
projects which include:
 Changing project scope
 Incorporation of new ideas as well as thoughts
 Mitigating risks in each project phase
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(M MudabbirAhsan) / (12047786) - PPMP20013 Course Portfolio for Week (5)
Learning
outcomes of the
course
Description oftopics
including reading
samples
Learnings from your experience Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
Week 12: Ensure sustainability.
Levy (2012) Chapters 16 & 17.
Department of the Environment
Sustainable Communities.
BHP Billiton Society
sustainability.
I have learnt that sustainability is one of the term that helps in defining the
project for maintaining operations, services as well as benefits during its entire
lie time.
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(M MudabbirAhsan) / (12047786) - PPMP20013 Course Portfolio for Week (5)
References
Kerzner H. ,2013. Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Control, 11th Edition. Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons.
Levy S. M. ,2012. Project Management in Construction, 6th Edition. USA: McGraw-Hill.
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