PPMP20012 Portfolio: Assessing Systems Engineering in Project Cases

This PPMP20012 unit portfolio for Week 3 delves into the relevance of systems engineering to project management, utilizing case studies such as the BP Texas City and Deepwater Horizon disasters. It examines systems thinking tools and techniques, emphasizing the importance of authenticated data sources like SEBoK, BKCASE, and GRCSE. The portfolio discusses how systems engineering concepts and methodologies can aid project, program, and portfolio managers in organizing projects, highlighting the use of hybrid methodologies that combine quantitative and qualitative data collection. It also addresses the significance of appropriate project management application systems in meeting both internal and external project objectives, emphasizing the role of PPM in providing better data evaluation for improved processing and association within projects.

(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 3
Week 3: Assess the Relevance of Systems Engineering to Project Cases
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
Mandatory Readings
 SEBoK Part 2:
Foundations of
Systems
Engineering –
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Fundamentals';
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Science';
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Thinking';
 'Knowledge
Area:
Representing
Systems with
Models';
 Part 6: Related
Disciplines –
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Engineering
and Industrial
Engineering';
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Engineering
1. Explain the
relevance of
systems thinking to
the project,
program and
portfolio manager.
The objective of this week’s topic is to ask questions about how valuable is
Systems Engineering to Project Management and the project cases we are
considering. The big case we have been looking at has been BP and Texas City
then Deepwater Horizon. We now have a basic understanding of Systems
Engineering, Project, Program, and Portfolio Management, so we can ask
ourselves:
SEBoK is one of the source that acts as the fact that the data that are being used
are authorized and authenticated in nature. BKCASE also acts to be an
authorized and authenticated source from which the access of data can be
made use of with efficiency. GRCSE also acts as the major source of
authenticated source. This enables the fact that the data that are taken from
these sources are authorized in nature.
Remington, K. and
Pollack, J., 2016. Tools
for complex projects.
Routledge.
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 3
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
and Specialty
Engineering';
 Part 7: Systems
Engineering
Implementation
Examples:
 How Lack of
Information
Sharing
Jeopardized the
NASA/ESA
Cassini/Huygen
s Mission to
Saturn;
 Project
Management
Case Study;
 Kerzner (2013)
Chapters 17.12-
17.17;
 AS/NZS
15288:2015
Chapter 5;
Optional Readings
 AS ISO
21504:2016
Project,
programme and
portfolio
management—
Guidance on
portfolio
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 3
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
management;
Movies and Web sites
 YouTube:
 "Systems
Engineering"
(by
ThinkTVPBS)
 Modeling the
Management of
Systems
Engineering
Projects (by
VitechCorp)
 Web Sites:
 International
Council on
Systems
Engineering
(INCOSE)
 Systems
Engineering
Society of
Australia
 The Guide to
Lean Enablers
for Managing
Engineering
Programs - MIT
Mandatory Readings
 SEBoK Part 2:
Foundations of
Systems
2. Identify different
systems thinking
tools and
techniques to aid
The objective of this week’s topic is to ask questions about how valuable is
Systems Engineering to Project Management and the project cases we are
considering. The big case we have been looking at has been BP and Texas City
then Deepwater Horizon. We now have a basic understanding of Systems
PPMP20012 Unit Profile
PPMP20012 Moodle
Web site
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 3
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
Engineering –
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Fundamentals';
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Science';
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Thinking';
 'Knowledge
Area:
Representing
Systems with
Models';
 Part 6: Related
Disciplines –
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Engineering
and Industrial
Engineering';
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Engineering
and Specialty
Engineering';
 Part 7: Systems
Engineering
Implementation
Examples:
 How Lack of
Information
project managers
solve project
problems.
Engineering, Project, Program, and Portfolio Management, so we can ask
ourselves:
The major issue that insist the case that the cause of the hazardous instance
caused in the projection of the BP has been related to the fact that the deep
water horizon Texas disaster was no due to the fact of lack of management but
it was a natural disaster as the oil companies has huge revenue which leads to
the fact that the data projection included teg proper attention to the
organization and the project plan and the management theory that was put into
use by the processing of the organization.
Krumholz, H.M., 2014.
Big data and new
knowledge in
medicine: the thinking,
training, and tools
needed for a learning
health system. Health
Affairs, 33(7), pp.1163-
1170.
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 3
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
Sharing
Jeopardized the
NASA/ESA
Cassini/Huygen
s Mission to
Saturn;
 Project
Management
Case Study;
 Kerzner (2013)
Chapters 17.12-
17.17;
 AS/NZS
15288:2015
Chapter 5;
Optional Readings
 AS ISO
21504:2016
Project,
programme and
portfolio
management—
Guidance on
portfolio
management;
Movies and Web sites
 YouTube:
 "Systems
Engineering"
(by
ThinkTVPBS)
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 3
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
 Modeling the
Management of
Systems
Engineering
Projects (by
VitechCorp)
 Web Sites:
 International
Council on
Systems
Engineering
(INCOSE)
 Systems
Engineering
Society of
Australia
 The Guide to
Lean Enablers
for Managing
Engineering
Programs - MIT
Mandatory Readings
 SEBoK Part 2:
Foundations of
Systems
Engineering –
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Fundamentals';
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Science';
 'Knowledge
3. Assess the
relevance of
systems
engineering to
project cases.
The objective of this week’s topic is to ask questions about how valuable is
Systems Engineering to Project Management and the project cases we are
considering. The big case we have been looking at has been BP and Texas City
then Deepwater Horizon. We now have a basic understanding of Systems
Engineering, Project, Program, and Portfolio Management, so we can ask
ourselves:
With the help of system thinking the data that are required for the processing in
the project is taken and the data that are taken for the improvisation of the data
that are caused to persist with the connection of the data with each other and
increase the efficiency of the project. With respect to the fact that the
connection among the data increase the efficiency of the processing another
Herrmann, N. and
Herrmann-Nehdi, A.,
2015. The Whole Brain
Business Book:
Unlocking the Power of
Whole Brain Thinking
in Organizations,
Teams, and
Individuals. McGraw
Hill Professional.
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 3
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
Area: Systems
Thinking';
 'Knowledge
Area:
Representing
Systems with
Models';
 Part 6: Related
Disciplines –
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Engineering
and Industrial
Engineering';
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Engineering
and Specialty
Engineering';
 Part 7: Systems
Engineering
Implementation
Examples:
 How Lack of
Information
Sharing
Jeopardized the
NASA/ESA
Cassini/Huygen
s Mission to
Saturn;
 Project
Management
main fact is that the data that are connected must be handled with proper
retention and discipline.
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 3
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
Case Study;
 Kerzner (2013)
Chapters 17.12-
17.17;
 AS/NZS
15288:2015
Chapter 5;
Optional Readings
 AS ISO
21504:2016
Project,
programme and
portfolio
management—
Guidance on
portfolio
management;
Movies and Web sites
 YouTube:
 "Systems
Engineering"
(by
ThinkTVPBS)
 Modeling the
Management of
Systems
Engineering
Projects (by
VitechCorp)
 Web Sites:
 International
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 3
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
Council on
Systems
Engineering
(INCOSE)
 Systems
Engineering
Society of
Australia
 The Guide to
Lean Enablers
for Managing
Engineering
Programs - MIT
Mandatory Readings
 SEBoK Part 2:
Foundations of
Systems
Engineering –
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Fundamentals';
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Science';
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Thinking';
 'Knowledge
Area:
Representing
Systems with
Models';
 Part 6: Related
4. Describe how
systems
engineering
concepts and
methodologies can
help a project,
program and
portfolio managers
organise a project.
The objective of this week’s topic is to ask questions about how valuable is
Systems Engineering to Project Management and the project cases we are
considering. The big case we have been looking at has been BP and Texas City
then Deepwater Horizon. We now have a basic understanding of Systems
Engineering, Project, Program, and Portfolio Management, so we can ask
ourselves:
The methodology that has been made use of, for the processing of the project is
the hybrid methodology. The hybrid methodology consists of the fact that the
data is collected by both quantitative means as well as the qualitative means.
Quantitative includes the fact that the data is collected by the means of the
taking interviews and surveys.
Keyte, B. and Locher,
D.A., 2016. The
complete lean
enterprise: Value
stream mapping for
administrative and
office processes.
Productivity Press.
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 3
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
Disciplines –
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Engineering
and Industrial
Engineering';
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Engineering
and Specialty
Engineering';
 Part 7: Systems
Engineering
Implementation
Examples:
 How Lack of
Information
Sharing
Jeopardized the
NASA/ESA
Cassini/Huygen
s Mission to
Saturn;
 Project
Management
Case Study;
 Kerzner (2013)
Chapters 17.12-
17.17;
 AS/NZS
15288:2015
Chapter 5;
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 3
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
Optional Readings
 AS ISO
21504:2016
Project,
programme and
portfolio
management—
Guidance on
portfolio
management;
Movies and Web sites
 YouTube:
 "Systems
Engineering"
(by
ThinkTVPBS)
 Modeling the
Management of
Systems
Engineering
Projects (by
VitechCorp)
 Web Sites:
 International
Council on
Systems
Engineering
(INCOSE)
 Systems
Engineering
Society of
Australia
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 3
Reading samples Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and
prior unit readings and assignments
Supporting
documentation
including any
prior learning
 The Guide to
Lean Enablers
for Managing
Engineering
Programs - MIT
Mandatory Readings
 SEBoK Part 2:
Foundations of
Systems
Engineering –
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Fundamentals';
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Science';
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Thinking';
 'Knowledge
Area:
Representing
Systems with
Models';
 Part 6: Related
Disciplines –
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
Engineering
and Industrial
Engineering';
 'Knowledge
Area: Systems
5. Explain the
importance of
appropriate
selection of project
management (PM)
application systems
in regards to
meeting the
internal and
external objectives
of a project.
The data that are incurred in the processing of the project includes the factor
that the PPM provides the better data evaluation which helps in the association
of the processing.
Khan, F. and Hashemi,
S.J., 2017. Introduction.
In Methods in Chemical
Process Safety (Vol. 1, pp.
1-36). Elsevier.
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