Project Management: Weekly Portfolio on Project Planning and Scope

This weekly portfolio provides insights into various aspects of project management, including the development of project specifications, work breakdown structures (WBS), and project planning methodologies. It highlights the importance of clear project specifications for guiding project teams and ensuring consistent processes. The portfolio also outlines the steps involved in creating a WBS and identifies potential problems in its decomposition, emphasizing its role in project mapping and progress tracking. Furthermore, it defines the roles of senior and top-level managers in providing project guidance, managing budgets, and developing processes. The role of the executive in aligning project strategy with business goals is also discussed, along with the importance of project plans in documenting assumptions, facilitating communication, and establishing baselines. Different types of project plans, such as scope, time, and cost management plans, are mentioned. Additionally, the portfolio covers the development of a project charter, the definition of a statement of work (SOW), and the significance of configuration management in ensuring consistency among logical assets. Finally, it explores how project management methodologies enhance project planning and overall project success, particularly in IT projects.

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Week Portfolio Learning Table
Topic and
reading samples
Your personal
learning
outcomes from
this course
Learning from your experience Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
i) Lecture
slides
To develop of project
specifications
Throughout the weekly course, I learned that the project development specifications
provide roadmap to correct of specified protocols based on current practices along
with industry resources. It provides with clear direction towards the entire team
with the project requirements tools along with quality management. Great project
specifications lead to successful project work and follow of consistent processes.
Lecture slide
ii) Recomme
nded
reading
Kerzner Chapter
11.9-11.14, 11.22-
11.29;
To develop steps in
work breakdown
structure and list of
problems in
decomposition of WBS
The steps which are required to develop the work breakdown structure are as
follows:
1. Begin with the higher level tasks and project deliverables
2. Identification of the project subtasks
3. Description of each of the tasks
The problems into WBS are created due to poor project planning, overrun of cost,
and inefficient work along with lower quality results. WBS is considered as effective
way to map the project, make easier to track the progress and stays on the project
schedule.
Kerzner Chapter
11.9-11.14, 11.22-
11.29;
To determine role of
senior manager and top
level manager
The senior manager has responsibility as well as authority which are broadened into
the project scope than the front line manager. The responsibilities of senior manager
and top level manager are:
 Providing the project guidance to direct the reports, which is comprised
with the first line managers as well as project supervisors
 Ensure of the project priorities as well as project goals for the functional
area
 Approval of the requests for the project investment for the business
Project plan
document
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documentation
including your
prior learning
functions
 Approval of the requests for the investment to the level of authority
 Management of the financial budgets for the business functions
 Approval of hiring as well as firing of requests from the project groups
 Development of processes for the project groups and functions
 Working across the business functions with the project peers
 Interaction with the senior management level for project reporting
 Communicating the financial goals of the project and key performance
indicators for directing of project reports
Kerzner Chapter
11.9-11.14, 11.22-
11.29;
Role of executive during
planning
The executive manager is responsible to meet with entire project strategy as well as
business goals of organization. The manager receives required project results. The
executive is responsible to run the organization and exact nature of the role based
on the organization. They create of project plans to help the business organization
into profitability. They are responsible to direct the manager into short as well as
long term project and develop of strategic program to make the business
profitability. They have goal to monitor the project program and its performance.
Project plan
document
iii) Recomme
nded
readings
PMI Implementing
Organizational PM
Chapter 5; Available
at:
http://marketplace.
pmi.org/Pages/Prod
uctDetail.aspx?
GMProduct=00101
To describe the project
plan and different types
of plan the project
manager requires to
develop
In my point of view and as per PMBOK, the project plan is approved documents
which are used as guide into the project execution as well as project control. The
primary usage of the project plan is to document of planning assumptions, facilitate
of the communication among the stakeholders along with document of the
approved scope, cost along with the schedule baselines. There are different types of
project plan such as:
 Project scope management plan
 Project time management plan
 Cost management plan
 Stakeholder management plan
 Communication plan
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document
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Topic and
reading samples
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learning
outcomes from
this course
Learning from your experience Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
500501  Quality management plan
PMI Implementing
Organizational PM
Chapter 5; Available
at:
http://marketplace.
pmi.org/Pages/Prod
uctDetail.aspx?
GMProduct=00101
500501
To develop of project
charter
The project charter is a process to develop the document which is authorized
existence of the project. It is provided to the project manager with authority to apply
the resources to the project activities. The benefit of project charter is well starting
and project boundaries, creation of the formal project record with approval of the
project documents.
PMI Managing
Change Chapter 5;
Available at:
http://marketplace.
pmi.org/Pages/Prod
uctDetail.aspx?
GMProduct=00101
469401
To define SOW The full form of SOW is statement of work. It provides with detailed description of
the services and tasks that a contractor is needed to perform of the project contract.
SOW into the contract is indirectly as well as directly as the attachment. At the end
of working day, the employees should clear their area of work, check for the safety
measures as well as turn into the statement of work. The stamen of work provides
clear written statement of the project work so that people can know to expect from
the project supervisor.
PMI Managing
Change Chapter 5;
Available at:
http://marketplace.
pmi.org/Pages/Prod
uctDetail.aspx?
To determine
configuration
management
Configuration management is the governance as well as process of system
engineering to ensure for the consistency among the logical assets into the
operational environments. The process of configuration management seeks for
identification as well as track of the individual configuration items, documentation of
the functional capabilities. The software developer is used of the tools of
configuration management for verification of effects of changes into the
configuration items has on the other systems.
Project plan
document
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Topic and
reading samples
Your personal
learning
outcomes from
this course
Learning from your experience Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
GMProduct=00101
469401
PMI Managing
Change Chapter 5;
Available at:
http://marketplace.
pmi.org/Pages/Prod
uctDetail.aspx?
GMProduct=00101
469401
To describe of project
management
methodology enhances
of project planning
The IT project is hard for management. The project management methodology
enhances the project success into the IT division. The methodology is enhanced the
success of project if it is being maintained as well as used properly over the
organization. It enhances the project quality and the study is focused on two of the
project phases such as: implementation of the project management and PMM based
on PMBOK. The purpose of this project study is investigation of how to implement of
PMMM to enhance the project success into the IT projects. Therefore, the project
management methodologies are effective in practice by contribution for
enhancement of the quality as well as success of the project work.
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document
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Bibliography
Harold Kerzner, P., 2013. Project Management, A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling and Controlling. Eleventh ed. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons
PMI Implementing Organizational PM Chapter 5; Available at: http://marketplace.pmi.org/Pages/ProductDetail.aspx?GMProduct=00101 500501.
PMI Managing Change Chapter 5; Available at: http://marketplace.pmi.org/Pages/ProductDetail.aspx?GMProduct=00101 469401.
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