Project Management: Project Management and Resource Allocation

This assignment delves into project management, emphasizing portfolio development, learning outcomes, and resource allocation. It examines the importance of change management and project scope verification within project lifecycles. The assignment references key texts, including Kerzner's work on project management and the PMP Handbook, highlighting their relevance in understanding project methodologies and standards. The focus is on practical application, ensuring resources are effectively managed to meet project requirements and specifications. The assignment also covers the need for incorporating recreational activities to refresh the mind for better project outcomes. The project highlights the need to manage project changes. The assignment covers all the key areas of project management.

Weekly Portfolio Learning Table
Topic and
reading
samples.
Personal learning
outcomes
Learnings from
your experience.
References.
Project
Management &
Resources
Resources availability is an
effort that is ongoing to
ensure that project
management processes are
improved.
Such efforts can either
seek "breakthrough"
improvement at a go, or
"incremental"
improvement with time.
Kerzner, H. (2013). Project
Management: A Systems Approach
to Planning, Scheduling, and
Controlling. [online] Available at:
https://leseprobe.buch.de/images-
adb/01/a0/01a0f1b5-054e-46ba-
a3d3-4d33b63eb326.pdf [Accessed
11 Oct. 2017].
Kerzner
Chapter 21.5-
21.8, & 22;
Another striking issue in this
discussion timeline is project
changes. It is also known as
change management.
The changes that are talked
about should be handled. The
process requires taking a
break from routine and
refreshing the mind through
recreational activities.
Pmi (2017). Project Management
Professional (PMP) Handbook.
[online] Available at:
https://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi
/documents/public/pdf/certificatio
ns/project-management-
professional-handbook.pdf
[Accessed 11 Oct. 2017].
Changes of the scope are managed
by verification of the scope of the
project in every stage of the
project.
Journals &
Standards
 IJPM Changes are likely to happen within
the project in terms of
requirements, scope, technology,
resources and several other
parameters.
 PMJ
 SAI
Global
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