PPMP20009 Leading Lean Projects

Topic and reading samples.

Personal learning outcomes

Learnings from your experience.

References.

Project Management & Its History

Project Management is the discipline that provides the guidelines to handle the various situation that come up during the project lifecycle with an aim to achieve the project goals successfully.

Activities such as management of household chores covering grocery management, cleaning and preparation of food come under the project of household management.

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 1

Project success is the accomplishment of the project goals and objectives covering the project requirements and specifications as per the quality and ethical standards.

Project success is an outcome of project management. However, the two terms are not the same.

Vertica (2016). Powering higher efficiency, customer service with quality data and analytics. [online] Available at: https://www.vertica.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Ameripride-Success-Story.pdf [Accessed 11 Oct. 2017].

The project of implementation of HPE Big Data tools and services in AmeriPride Services is an example of successful project.

Journals & Standards

· IJPM

Adherence to the quality standards, project risks and conflicts along with communication gaps are the three problems under project management.

· PMJ

· SAI Global

In order to be a good manager, it is necessary to have technical as well as managerial skills with leadership abilities. Functional manager can be good project managers.

Functional Manager, Project Leaders and Business Analysts shall look over the shoulder for better project management and it shall change as per the project factors, priority and resources.