PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio: Week 8 Reading and Application Systems

This portfolio assignment, part of the PPMP20012 unit, focuses on project management application systems and their role in monitoring performance and managing changes. The student explores how these systems assist in project execution across various industries, drawing from mandatory and optional readings. The assignment examines the effectiveness of application performance management (APM) tools, proposes appropriate PM application systems for different industries, and discusses contemporary developments in the use of project, program, and portfolio (PPPM) application systems. The analysis highlights the importance of application systems in providing visibility, facilitating decision-making, and addressing challenges within organizations. The portfolio also references relevant academic sources to support the analysis and findings.

(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 8
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
 PMI (2013) The
Standard for
Program
Management --
Third Edition
Chapter 8;
 PMI (2013) The
Standard for
Portfolio
Management --
Third Edition
Chapter 7;
Optional Readings
 -
Web Sites
 -
8: Identify how PM
application systems
can assist project
managers to monitor
performance and
manage changes
within the project.
Application performance management is defined as one of the
procedures that helps in monitoring as well as managing the
performance and availability of different types of software applications.
It is identified that APM helps in striving for detecting as well as
diagnosing the complexity of the application performance related issues
for maintaining an expected level of service. It is identified that APM
generally helps in monitoring the speed at which the entire network-
based infrastructure is done for successfully supporting the software-
based applications in order to provide proper end to end overview about
the bottlenecks as well as service interruptions.
The changes are generally done with the help of the application systems.
It is found that with the application system, the first and the initial step is
to determine what will generally get improved with the changes.
Secondly it is quite necessary to effectively present the entire business
case to the project stakeholders by creating proper plan for the change.
In addition to this, it is found that proper resources as well as data
utilization are generally evaluated for monitoring as well as managing
resistance. In addition to this, it is quite necessary to revise as well as
review the changes for making sure that the changes are generally
creating positive impact on the organization.
Moreover, the web application can also hinder the performance due to
occurrences of DNS issues, slow servers, poorly written code, lack of
proper load balancing as well as traffic spikes. In addition to this, the
performance gets also impacted due to the complexity of the
application, application design, application testing as well as due to
Ahmed, T. M.,
Bezemer, C. P., Chen,
T. H., Hassan, A. E., &
Shang, W. (2016, May).
Studying the
effectiveness of
application
performance
management (APM)
tools for detecting
performance
regressions for web
applications: an
experience report. In
Proceedings of the
13th International
Conference on Mining
Software Repositories
(pp. 1-12). ACM.
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 8
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
network.
I have found that the readings generally put proper insights on the PM
application system for reflecting how it is generally helpful in monitoring
the performance as well as the changes within the entire project quite
successfully.
Mandatory
Readings
 PMI (2013) The
Standard for
Program
Management --
Third Edition
Chapter 8;
 PMI (2013) The
Standard for
Portfolio
Management --
Third Edition
Chapter 7;
Optional Readings
 -
Web Sites
 -
9. Propose
appropriate PM
application systems
to support successful
project execution in
different industries.
It is found that with the help of the application system, the organization
needs the application system to perform proper functions directly for the
end users. Various types of applications software are generally utilized
for running a project, program or a portfolio so that the entire work of
the project can get completed effectively. It is found that in order to
communicate between them proper relation between the staffs as well
as head of the organization should be present so that the
communication-based gap that remains will generally get resolved and
the staffs can be able to communicate quite effectively.
The application system generally helps in flowing and down the
information that are either needed for the project, program or for the
portfolio.
It is found that big organization like BP faces a number of issues if they
are unable to have proper visibility about what is generally happening
within the entire organization. With the help of the application system,
the organization BP can be able to get the entire visibility about the
issues and challenges that they generally face within the dangerous
environment so that the entire problem can be resolved quite
effectively.
It is found that other organizations like healthcare, transportation,
manufacturing, construction, military as well as police also requires
proper visibility in order to understand the issues as well as problems so
Putra, N., Ariantara, B.,
& Pamungkas, R. A.
(2016). Experimental
investigation on
performance of lithium-
ion battery thermal
management system
using flat plate loop
heat pipe for electric
vehicle
application. Applied
Thermal
Engineering, 99, 784-
789.
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(Insert Student Name) / (Insert Student Number) - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 8
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
that they can be able to get proper idea about what is generally
happening and who is generally involved in order to manage the
situation.
I have identified that both the learnings as well as readings generally put
insight into the entire learning outcome such that the project
management-based application system is generally helpful in successfully
supporting the project execution within different industries.
Mandatory
Readings
 Sterman
Chapters 1, 2, 13
and 15;
 Insight Maker
Optional Readings
 INCOSE
Web Sites
 -
10. Discuss
contemporary
developments in the
use of project,
program and portfolio
(PPPM) application
systems.
It is identified that both contemporary development within the use of
project, program as well as portfolio application system. It is found that
around 10 weeks are generally spent by successfully considering the
different aspects of project management application and how they are
generally useful for helping the project, program or the portfolio
management. The main key objective is to give proper facility of visibility
to the organizations so that the organization can be able to make proper
decisions. It is analyzed that proper development within the program,
portfolio as well as project can only be possible with the help of proper
application system.
Moreover, I have analyzed that the mandatory readings that are
generally provided are generally helpful in discussing the various types of
contemporary development and how the developments in context to
project, program as well as portfolio application system are generally
helpful or beneficial.
Sturm, R., Pollard, C.,
& Craig, J. (2017).
Application
performance
management (apm) in
the digital enterprise:
managing applications
for cloud, mobile, iot
and ebusiness. Morgan
Kaufmann.
Kerzner, H., & Kerzner,
H. R. (2017). Project
management: a
systems approach to
planning, scheduling,
and controlling. John
Wiley & Sons.
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References
Ahmed, T. M., Bezemer, C. P., Chen, T. H., Hassan, A. E., & Shang, W. (2016, May). Studying the effectiveness of application performance management
(APM) tools for detecting performance regressions for web applications: an experience report. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference
on Mining Software Repositories (pp. 1-12). ACM.
Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Putra, N., Ariantara, B., & Pamungkas, R. A. (2016). Experimental investigation on performance of lithium-ion battery thermal management system using flat
plate loop heat pipe for electric vehicle application. Applied Thermal Engineering, 99, 784-789.
Sturm, R., Pollard, C., & Craig, J. (2017). Application performance management (apm) in the digital enterprise: managing applications for cloud, mobile, iot
and ebusiness. Morgan Kaufmann.
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