PPMP20009 Unit Portfolio: Weekly Reflections on Project Management

This document represents a student's weekly portfolio for the unit PPMP20009, focusing on reflections and learnings related to project management. The portfolio includes a learning table that covers topics such as the definition of project management, project success, and potential problems in project management. It documents the student's personal learning outcomes, experiences, and supporting documentation from prior learnings. The portfolio structure is based on examples from Athabasca University and references works by Race and Timmins. The student reflects on concepts like project management history, the qualities of a good project manager, and the importance of aligning project outcomes with company interests. The document emphasizes the importance of continuous improvement, quality assurance, and resource management in project management, incorporating personal examples and experiences to illustrate key concepts. The student also considers the role of ethics, best practices, and stakeholder engagement in ensuring project success. Desklib provides access to this and other solved assignments contributed by students.

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Weekly portfolio
In this unit you are required to complete a weekly portfolio. A portfolio provides evidence of previous experience and presents a dynamic record of your
growth and professional learning over the duration of this Unit. Your portfolio provides an account of your learning based on your prior and current
learnings and your critical reflection.
A portfolio is increasingly being used in Universities as a means of:
 Being able to tell much more about you than exam results;
 As a means of reflecting your development through the unit;
 To reflect your attitude and values as well as your skills and knowledge.
(Race 2010, p. 58)
Timmins states that ‘A portfolio is a cohesive account of work based learning that contains relevant evidence from practice and critical reflection on this
evidence. Its primary purpose is to ‘display achievement ofprofessional competence or learning outcomes and knowledge development’(Timmins 2008: p.
115).
You’ll find much more information about the use and application of portfolios on the Internet. However, it will requireyou to take some time to think
through how you are going to complete the portfolio on a weekly basis. It is very easy to trivialise the portfolio and write nearly the same thing each week.
But that won’t gain you many marks. Instead you should try to focus on the topic and learning outcome for the week and your reflections regarding them.
Task
Your task is to write a weekly portfolio reflecting upon your learnings from the prior week. In your portfolio you will identify:
1. The learning outcomes and module/topic of the unit;
2. A description of your experience, including reading samples or records;
3. Your learning from your experiences;
4. Any supporting documentation of prior or current learning.
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Instructions for completing the portfolio
1. Type your name and student id at the top of the page in the header section.
2. You can then delete this first section, save the file so that it can be used each week, and concentrate on writing your weekly portfolio.
3. Each learning outcome and the topics appropriate for the learning outcome have been included as the first column of portfolio table on the next
page. You should review these columns and make changes as the unit progresses and you gain more familiarity with the learning outcomes and
unit content. You will find that you will progressively elaborate on the content of the second, third and fourth columns as you work through each of
the weeks of the unit.
4. Please appreciate it takes time to complete the portfolio therefore you must think always of what is required and be taking notes to update your
portfolio as you read, study videos, or undertake other unit related activities. You are expected to be working 12 to 16 hours each week on this unit
so you have plenty of time to get the portfolio right!
5. The portfolio will be discussed in the unit online videos and tutorials – please listen carefully and you may find the portfolio is easier to complete
than it first appears.
6. You may disagree with the allocation of the learning outcomes to the topics in the portfolio table. This is your right and you are free to move things
around as you become more familiar with the portfolio and the unit material.
7. At the beginning of the unit all of the learning outcomes maybe not appropriate for the first week, so you should reflect upon what you believe is
required from the portfolio for the first week. As the weeks progress then you will find that you will add more learning outcomes. The content of
the first weekly learning portfolio table in this file includes all of the topics and reading samples to save your time in typing.
8. At the end of the unit you should review your weekly portfolios and then consolidate them into a single submission. This is the assessment that
gets marked. Since the objective of the portfolio is to show your learning journey as well as your reflections then you should not be surprised to
find that your opinions have changed during the unit. You do not have to change your portfolios from prior weeks.
Future directions
In the future you should expect that portfolios will be used increasinglyat the academic post graduate level. Eventually they may even replace exams.
Therefore there are a number of things to note for the future:
1. You will be required to complete more portfolios in otherunits as you progress inyour academic career;
2. As portfolios begin to replace exams you will need to make your portfolio comprehensive and deeply reflective to gain a good grade;
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3. You may find that other unit assessments, such as presentations, will be aligned with the content of your portfolio submissions as a means of
validating your knowledge.
Acknowledgement and references
This portfolio structurewas based on an example (a psychology unit) located at Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada
Race P. (2010) A Practical Guide to Assessment, Learning and Teaching.Abingdon, England: Routledge.
Timmins F. (2008) Making Sense of Portfolios: An Introduction to Portfolio use for Nursing Students. Glasgow, Scotland: McGraw-Hill Education.
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Weekly Portfolio Learning Table
Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from thisunit.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
Why Project
Management?
Put in your own words what you think
Project Management is.
Project management is the process or the
ways that helps to specifies the each steps
of the project and helps to deliver the
project in an effective way along with
meeting all the requirements of the project.
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project
management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Make a list of three activities that you do
each day or each week which can be
regarded as a Project
The three activities in the daily life those
can be regarded as the project are- keeping
the weekly update of the learning outcome,
maintaining the daily activity through a
routine and self evaluation at the end of
the each month based on the daily routine.
Brickson, P., 2016. Implementing Data
Governance with Agile Project Management
Methodologies (Doctoral dissertation, The
College of St. Scholastica).
Kerzner Chapter 1 Now, what is Project Success? A project can be regarded as successful
project, if the outcome of the project meets
all the requirements give by the clients and
the compilation of the project is done in a
sustainable way.
Kerzner, H., 2017. Project Management
Organizational Structures. Project Management
Case Studies, pp.105-128.
Do you know of any projects that are
successful? Describe one? How is it
successful?
There are many project those can be
regarded as successful projects. One of the
successful projects is development of the
ticket reservation system. This project was
successful as the project was done
efficiently and the all the requirements
were met by the project
Egelstaff (2013)
Academic
assignments:
Critical thinking
and writing
Is Project Success the same as Project
Management? Why?
The project success is not same as the
project management. Project management
describes the process and the stages a
project needs to be gone through during the
life cycle of the project. On the other hand ,
if a project meets all the requirements given
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from thisunit.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
critically by the clients, it can be said the project is
successful. |The right project management
can deliver a successful project.
Make a list of three problems of Project
Management?
The three problems of the project
management are- improper communication
between the team members and the
stakeholders related to the project, scope
creep of project and insufficient team skills.
Introductory
Video: Project
Management
History & Where
Are We Now
Can anyone be a good project manager?
Do you think that functional managers
would make good project managers?
The project manager should have some
good qualities to become a good project
manager. Some of the required qualities of
the good project manager are vision,
leadership qualities, maintaining the
integrity and the domain knowledge. Any
person having these qualities can be
regarded as a good project manager.
Can anyone be a good project manager?
Do you think that functional managers
would make good project managers?
Functional managers are the departmental
managers who conducts managing of the
functions under a specified project. The
functional managers can be the project
manager if he or she can obtain the
qualities of the project managers.
Project managers are usually dedicated
and committed to the project. Who
should be “looking over the shoulder” of
the project manager to make sure that
the work and requests are also in the best
interest of the company? Does your
answer depend on the priority of the
project
The project managers are dedicated on the
accurate compilation of the project.
However, the requirements and the
outcome of the project should have the
positive effect for the company y. In order
to ensure this fact, the higher authorities
are responsible. They can take the follow
ups about the outcome and the progress of
the project from the project managers.
Sometimes involvement of the stakeholders
also requires the project manager to give
the updates about the project to the project
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Topic and
reading samples.
Your personal learning outcomes
from thisunit.
Learnings from your experience. Supporting documentation
including your prior learnings.
stakeholders.
References
Fleming, Q.W. and Koppelman, J.M., 2016, December. Earned value project management. Project Management Institute.
Mir, F.A. and Pinnington, A.H., 2014. Exploring the value of project management: linking project management performance and project
success. International journal of project management, 32(2), pp.202-217.
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