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MAN6303 - Program Management, Edith Cowan University Australia
Assignment Task : Personal Learning Portfolio
This assignment requires you to create a personal learning portfolio (PLP). The purpose of this portfolio is to help you in the role as a project or program manager to envision yourself conducting the required activities for Program Management. The key activities that will help you build the portfolio are:
1. Reflection – thinking about the questions in regard to your own experience, capabilities and desires.
2. Collaboration – exchanging ideas with your colleagues, friends and mentors and testing out the solutions and directions you have arrived at.
3. Information – researching further, using your existing knowledge, using ECU library, using academic journals and industry publications, the internet, business and the materials presented in this course.
Portfolio Entry 1 – Case Study 1: American Shogun
Review the content in the case study (1), and consider the scenario provided with a view to providing detailed commentary, analysis and synthesis of key concepts against the backdrop of the Standard for Program Management (Version 4). You must refer to scholarly writings to and support your portfolio entry and it must meet the academic standards outlined in the assignment brief, learning outcomes and Unit Plan.
Learning Portfolio Entry 1 Questions
1.Comment on the overall success of the program in terms of its tangible benefits.
2.What aspects of the program were done well (when related to program management theory).
3.What are the lessons learnt in this case study?
4.What would your recommendations be to improve the program if done again in the future?
Portfolio Entry 2 – Case Study 2: Planet Orbits
Review the content in the case study (2), and consider the scenario provided with a view to providing detailed commentary, analysis and synthesis of key concepts against the backdrop of the Standard for Program Management (Version 4). You must refer to scholarly writings to and support your portfolio entry and it must meet the academic standards outlined in the assignment brief, learning outcomes and Unit Plan.
Learning Portfolio Entry 2 Questions
1.Summarise the key program management aspects of the case study, noting the key “takeaways” and highlights.
2.How should the earthly issues and the cosmic glory of Planet Orbits be balanced in terms of the success measures?
3.What are the major challenges of the Planet Orbits structure?
4.Explain why soft skills are so important, especially in this case study.
Portfolio Entry 3 – Case Study 3: ConSoul Software
Review the content in the case study (3), and consider the scenario provided with a view to providing detailed commentary, analysis and synthesis of key concepts against the backdrop of the Standard for Program Management (Version 4). You must refer to scholarly writings to and support your portfolio entry and it must meet the academic standards outlined in the assignment brief, learning outcomes and Unit Plan.
1.Summarise the key program management aspects of the case study, noting the key “takeaways” and highlights.
2.Explain how project management can be used to achieve business strategy
3.Which ONE of the three options listed in the case study would you choose and give reasons for the choice (as aligned to the Standard for Program Management).
4.What are the lessons learnt in this case study?
Portfolio Entry 4 – Successful Program Management
Discuss the statement ‘we still know little about what constitutes successful program management under various organisational conditions’. Use recent relevant examples and research to support any arguments and conclusions you make.
Portfolio Entry 5 – Reflective Report
Please reflect back on Activity A & Activity B) that you undertook with your group for ‘Assessment Task 2’. Create a written report about how you approached the case study, and how you dealt with group work. This is your ‘reflective’ report that should include the following:
1. What you have learned from working with other students on Assignment 1
2. What worked
3. What did not work
4. What you would do differently next time
5. How your management skills were tested during the assignment
6. How you communicated with the other group members (including evidence of contact – such as placing work into a shared folder)
7. (If relevant) How you responded to change and difficulties, including whether other members of the team contributed less than others, and any evidence you may have to support this view.