PPMP20009 Unit Portfolio for Week 10: Topic, Readings, and Learning

This portfolio, submitted for the PPMP20009 course, focuses on key aspects of project management, including resource management, change management, and the mitigation of scope creep. The assignment utilizes readings from Kerzner's "Project Management" and supporting materials to analyze these concepts. The portfolio covers the importance of selecting the right team, managing project scope to prevent uncontrolled growth, and implementing effective change management strategies. It also includes a personal reflection on the application of these concepts and personal learning outcomes, highlighting the development of project management skills. The student demonstrates an understanding of the course materials, including the impact of scope creep on project success and the steps involved in change management processes, citing various sources to support their analysis.

(Insert your name)/(ID) – PPMP20009 Unit Portfolio for Week 10
Weekly 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
– 21.5-21.8
b) Kerzner chapter
– 22
To ensure of right number of resources
for the project
Success of a project is based on number of factors such as
ensuring that right people and their skills are required for
project success. Right number of people are selected for the
project by following criteria such as:
 Identifying the list of soft and hard skills required for
the project
 Identifying the minimum level of competency required
for each skills
 Rating of project team members based on skills
Kerzner, H. (2017). Project
management.
12th ed. New Jersey: John Wiley
& Sons.
Lecture slides To ensure that the project team have
correct skills and knowledge to the job
Skills required into the project resources are that they should
be excellent communicator, knowledge on the principles of
project management, stronger ability to read people, highly
organized and accurate estimation of time to complete the
project.
The project team members should have potential to stand and
face the conflicts and difficulties into the organization.
Arumugam, V., Antony, J. and
Kumar, M., 2013. Linking
learning and knowledge
creation to project success in Six
Sigma projects: An empirical
investigation. International
Journal of Production
Economics, 141(1), pp.388-402.
Books To manage of project scope and ensure
of no scope creep
Scope creep is such a process in which the project grows
beyond the anticipated size.
From the side of project manager, scope creep is a bane. It
provides an impact on project cost and timeline along with
quality. Into any development project, scope creep leads cause
for failures into the project. The project manager handles the
project scope and prevent from spinning out of control.
Scope creep is referred to uncontrolled changes that cause
project scope to grow.
Madhuri, K.L., Suma, V. and
Mokashi, U.M., 2018. A
triangular perception of scope
creep influencing the project
success. International Journal of
Business Information
Systems, 27(1), pp.69-85.
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(Insert your name)/(ID) – PPMP20009 Unit Portfolio for Week 10
Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning
outcomes from this unit.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting
documentation
including your prior
learnings.
Lecture slides To make changes into the project The project management helps the organization to manage of
changes and take of initiates to deliver a successful project
results. There are some steps used to manage the change
process such as:
 Define the change objectives
 Development of change management strategy
 Create of project management to affect changes
 Install of control process for monitoring of project
progress
 Manage of project by implementation of change
management plan
Doppelt, B., 2017. Leading
change toward sustainability: A
change-management guide for
business, government and civil
society. Routledge.
Lecture slides To illustrate of personal life experienced
of need of changes and process to handle
changes
While conducting work in this course, I have lack of project
management skills to work into this field; therefore I have extra
project management classes to make changes in life. Now, I can
able to work in project management assignments.
Kerzner, H. (2017). Project
management.
12th ed. New Jersey: John Wiley
& Sons.
Portfolio Reflection:
I have gained knowledge on the project scope, change management and resource management, so that in future project I can able to manage any project
related assignments properly and effectively.
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References
Arumugam, V., Antony, J. and Kumar, M., 2013. Linking learning and knowledge creation to project success in Six Sigma projects: An empirical
investigation. International Journal of Production Economics, 141(1), pp.388-402.
Doppelt, B., 2017. Leading change toward sustainability: A change-management guide for business, government and civil society. Routledge.
Kerzner, H. 2017. Project management. 12th ed. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
Madhuri, K.L., Suma, V. and Mokashi, U.M., 2018. A triangular perception of scope creep influencing the project success. International Journal of Business
Information Systems, 27(1), pp.69-85.
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