project management for operators of large assets
PPMP20013 PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT Assessment Title Portfolio Assessment
Task Description In this course you are required to complete a weekly portfolio. A portfolio provides evidence of
previous experience and presents a dynamic record of your growth and professional learning over the
duration of this course. Your task is to write a portfolio each week reflecting upon your learnings from
the prior week of the course.
In your portfolio you will identify:
1. The learning outcomes and module/topic of the course;
2. A description of your experience, including reading samples or records;
3. Your learnings based from your experiences;
4. Any supporting documentation of prior or current learning.
The primary purpose of this assessment is to help you to develop skills for discussing the value of
project management for mining, plant and large asset operators and owners. The secondary purpose
of this assignment is to give you the opportunity to enhance your analysis, critical thinking and written
communication skills; particularly in the areas of thinking about and reflecting on your personal and
workplace practice.
Developing a portfolio, as a result, makes your learning more explicit as you translate your workplace
and personal experiences into documented evidence. You can then learn to critically examine the
nature of your learning on this course in relation to specific experiences in your project management
practice. As a result you will demonstrate that you have learned from those experiences and how you
have achieved or maintained your professional competence as a result.
You will be provided on the Moodle web site with a portfolio template. You should use this template
to write your portfolio and then upload a weekly portfolio to the Moodle web site. At the end of this
course you will consolidate your portfolio into a single document and upload an overall consolidated
portfolio submission.
Your portfolio should contain a coherent, but necessarily restricted, review of the academic literature
related to the project management topics for each week. You should also include a weekly reference
list formatted in the prescribed Harvard style. You are also encouraged to include a bibliography.
This assessment item involves researching the topics to enhance your understanding of each concept
through an utilisation of academic literature and secondary sources.
Whil t t th d d t tb k h ld l f t th th M dlSubmission Upload to Moodle a single file. If you have more than one file then create a single Zip file and upload
that. The written assignment must be a Microsoft Word document.
Appendices may be included as PDF, Excel or other files.
Weighting 35%
Writing portfolios,
portfolio size, and
referencing criteria
Weekly Portfolio
Your weekly portfolio can be as long or as short as you want it to be. It is your portfolio and shows
your development of understanding during the course. Naturally, this will make the portfolio different
for everyone. Each student’s background, education, current and past work experiences is what makes
it different. Each student’s personal researches will be different. The weekly portfolios are not marked
BUT are needed for the Consolidated Portfolios. Also be aware that there is a due date for each
Weekly Portfolio and late portfolios are not accepted.
What you need to do is to give yourself enough time to reflect and show how you have thought and
come to grips with the ideas that address the learning outcomes of the course. The amount of time
you should be allocating to the course is 12 to 16 hours per week (which includes writing the
portfolio). So there should be a fair bit of time for you to make the reflections and reach a depth of
insight that will make the portfolio meaningful.
With each weeks portfolio you submit do not include the writing that you made for a prior week.
Instead you use the same portfolio template using only the section for the week you are writing about.
In other words each week’s portfolio is a reflection upon that week. You should however, revisit the
whole course learning outcomes each week. The portfolio for any previous week is a reflection of your
insights and thoughts for that week. Once you upload the portfolio then leave it for that week. Over
the duration of the course you will find that there is a development and change of your ideas as you
study the material. You then have opportunity at the end of the course to consolidate everything and
show how you have gained the insights that the course is seeking to provide. At the end of the course
you should then review your weekly portfolios and consolidate them into a single submission. This is
the assessment that gets marked.
It is to your benefit to have the personal discipline to make sure that you do not get behind. If you are
allocating 12 or 16 hours per week for the course then there is plenty of time for the portfolio. If you
find that one week you slip then ok, but the course is fundamentally planned so that you need to
allocate 12 to 16 hours each week. Two hours lost in one week means that you need to do 14 to 18
hours the next! The course is straight forward, but there are lots of web sites to visit and material to
download. The text book is only part of the story and you won’t be able to do the course with just the
t t b k U f t t l th t t b k i A i d l t ti j t tthey are included in the final portfolio. In most of the weeks of the course you look back at the
previous week when you complete the portfolio. However, for week 11 you do not need to submit
week 11 as a separate portfolio since in effect you’ll be rolling week 11 and 12 into the final
consolidated portfolio in week 12.
Consolidated Portfolio
You should submit an essay for your consolidated portfolio due at the end of the course. Since you’ll
have made your own journey studying during the course via the weekly portfolios, the material that
you want to include in the portfolio will be unique for you. Your final portfolio will explain how you
have developed your understanding of the learning outcomes and the topics with each week’s study.
There are a number of ways you can provide a consolidated portfolio. It is up to you to decide which
way work the best for you. For example:‐
1. You could write a 1‐3 page essay (there is no limit) to share your reflection of the term.
2. You could merge all your reflections into one and provide a single file.
3. You could alternatively zip all of the previous portfolios into one and use a single ‘master’ portfolio
to refer back to each week BUT make sure you have a reflective summary of the term and the
learnings at the end of this submission.
4. You could use an index and numbering system to identify material from prior weeks. Remember to
include your reflection of the learnings from the subject and how this subject has affected you.
Whatever way that you do it; the final portfolio is the important one!
In summary, an analogy for the final portfolio is that you can imagine that you are going before an
examination board at the end of the course and presenting to them a complete portfolio of your
journey through the course. You will hand the board a package of your journey that they should then
be able to read and from it appreciate everything that you have done and learned.
Referencing
Ensuring you have accurate references is important and will allow the marker to easily identify where
your tender maps to the course material. Also you need to show how you have made critical reflection
on the material and added your own unique insights.
Referencing should be made according to CQU’s Harvard referencing guide. To locate the guide then
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1. /20
2. /40
With imagination, originality or flair, based on proficiency in
all the learning outcomes of the course; work is interesting or
surprisingly exciting, challenging, well read or scholarly.
With awareness and understanding of deeper and less
obvious aspects of the course, such as ability to identify and
debate critical issues or problems, ability to solve non‐routine
problems, ability to adapt and apply ideas to new situations,
and ability to invent and evaluate new ideas.
With ability to use and apply fundamental concepts and skills
of the course, going beyond mere replication of content
knowledge or skill to show understanding of key ideas,
awareness of their relevance, some use of analytical skills,
and some originality or insight.
By having met all of the basic learning requirements of the
course, such as knowledge of fundamental concepts and
performance of basic skills; demonstrates sufficient quality of
performance to be considered satisfactory or adequate or
competent or capable in relation to the learning outcomes of
the course.
With imagination, originality or flair, based on proficiency in
all the learning outcomes of the course; work is interesting or
surprisingly exciting, challenging, well read or scholarly.
With awareness and understanding of deeper and less
obvious aspects of the course, such as ability to identify and
debate critical issues or problems, ability to solve non‐routine
problems, ability to adapt and apply ideas to new situations,
and ability to invent and evaluate new ideas.
With ability to use and apply fundamental concepts and skills
of the course, going beyond mere replication of content
knowledge or skill to show understanding of key ideas,
awareness of their relevance, some use of analytical skills,
and some originality or insight.
Assessment Criteria Criteria
Evidence of weekly portfolio’s for:‐ 1.1 Week 1 1.2 Week 2 1.3 Week 3 1.4 Week 4 1.5 Week 5 1.6 Week 6 1.7 Week 7 1.8 Week 8 1.9 Week 9 1.10 Week 10 1.11 Week 11 1.12 Week 12
Qualitative reflections of the course learning outcomes
2.1 Clear terminology to describe the key areas of project, program and
portfolio management practices as applies to asset rich organisations.
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.1.3
2.1.4
2.2 The relevance of tools and techniques for investigating and describing
project process related to developing new workings, facilities,
equipment, plant and processes or maintaining existing facilities and
equipment. 2.2.1
2.2.2
2.2.3
By having met all of the basic learning requirements of the
course, such as knowledge of fundamental concepts and
performance of basic skills; demonstrates sufficient quality of
performance to be considered satisfactory or adequate or
competent or capable in relation to the learning outcomes of
the course.
2.2.4 By having met all of the basic learning requirements of the course, such
as knowledge of fundamental concepts and performance of basic skills;
demonstrates sufficient quality of performance to be considered satisfactory or
adequate or competent or capable in relation to the learning outcomes of the
course.
2.3 The presentation and interpretation major processes that are based on
sound policy, information, and research that enable project justification,
tenders, contracts, and selection criteria to occur in an asset rich organisation.
2.3.1 With imagination, originality or flair, based on proficiency in all the
learning outcomes of the course; work is interesting or surprisingly exciting,
challenging, well read or scholarly.
2.3.2 With awareness and understanding of deeper and less obvious aspects
of the course, such as ability to identify and debate critical issues or problems,
ability to solve non‐routine problems, ability to adapt and apply ideas to new
situations, and ability to invent and evaluate new ideas.
2.3.3 With ability to use and apply fundamental concepts and skills of the
course, going beyond mere replication of content knowledge or skill to show
understanding of key ideas, awareness of their relevance, some use of
analytical skills, and some originality or insight.
2.3.4 By having met all of the basic learning requirements of the course, such
as knowledge of fundamental concepts and performance of basic skills;
demonstrates sufficient quality of performance to be considered satisfactory or
adequate or competent or capable in relation to the learning outcomes of the
course.
2.4 Critical analysis of management strategies and operational activities from
a broad perspective with the aim to avoid overruns or rework, to manage
variations and claims, and to make decisions to discontinue or close projects.
2.4.1 With imagination, originality or flair, based on proficiency in all the
learning outcomes of the course; work is interesting or surprisingly exciting,
challenging, well read or scholarly.
2.4.2 With awareness and understanding of deeper and less obvious aspects
of the course, such as ability to identify and debate critical issues or problems,
ability to solve non‐routine problems, ability to adapt and apply ideas to new
situations, and ability to invent and evaluate new ideas.
2.4.3 With ability to use and apply fundamental concepts and skills of the
course, going beyond mere replication of content knowledge or skill to show
understanding of key ideas, awareness of their relevance, some use of
analytical skills, and some originality or insight.
2.4.4
With imagination, originality or flair, based on proficiency in
all the learning outcomes of the course; work is interesting or
surprisingly exciting, challenging, well read or scholarly.
With awareness and understanding of deeper and less
obvious aspects of the course, such as ability to identify and
debate critical issues or problems, ability to solve non‐routine
problems, ability to adapt and apply ideas to new situations,
and ability to invent and evaluate new ideas.
With ability to use and apply fundamental concepts and skills
of the course, going beyond mere replication of content
knowledge or skill to show understanding of key ideas,
awareness of their relevance, some use of analytical skills,
and some originality or insight.
By having met all of the basic learning requirements of the
course, such as knowledge of fundamental concepts and
performance of basic skills; demonstrates sufficient quality of
performance to be considered satisfactory or adequate or
competent or capable in relation to the learning outcomes of
the course.
3. /20
Knowledge Communication Cognitive, technical and creative skills Research Ethical and Professional Responsibility
Knowledge Communication Cognitive, technical and creative skills Research Ethical and Professional Responsibility
Knowledge Communication Cognitive, technical and creative skills
2.5 Demonstration of an effective, professional level of teamwork and
communication and support collaborative peer group learning within
the portfolio. 2.5.1
2.5.2
2.5.3
2.5.4
Quantitative achievement for the course topics 3.1 Adequate definitions related to project management for operators of
mines, plants and owners of large assets, through the application of:‐
3.1.1 3.1.2 3.1.3 3.1.4 3.1.4 3.2 Exploration and explorations of project justification and contract
processes, through the application of:‐ 3.2.1 3.2.2 3.2.3 3.2.4 3.2.4 3.3 Exploration and explanation of the financing of projects, through the
application of:‐ 3.3.1 3.3.2 3.3.3 3.3.4 Research 3.3.4 Ethical and Professional Responsibility 3.4 Identification and application of project contract conditions regarding
project teams and project processes, through the application of:‐
3.4.1 Knowledge 3.4.2 Communication 3.4.3 Cognitive, technical and creative skills 3.4.4 Research 3.4.4 Ethical and Professional Responsibility 3.5 Definition and application of estimating processes and concepts for the
project, through the application of:‐ 3.5.1 Knowledge 3.5.2 Communication 3.5.3 Cognitive, technical and creative skills 3.5.4 Research
3.5.4 Ethical and Professional Responsibility
Knowledge Communication Cognitive, technical and creative skills Research Ethical and Professional Responsibility
Knowledge
Communication Cognitive, technical and creative skills Research Ethical and Professional Responsibility
4. /20
/100
3.6 Management of project requirements and change processes, through the
application of:‐ 3.6.1 Knowledge 3.6.2 Communication 3.6.3 Cognitive, technical and creative skills 3.6.4 Research 3.6.4 Ethical and Professional Responsibility 3.7 Definition and application of quality assurance and quality control,
through the application of:‐ 3.7.1 Knowledge 3.7.2 Communication 3.7.3 Cognitive, technical and creative skills 3.7.4 Research 3.7.4 Ethical and Professional Responsibility 3.8 Design and application of document management and governance
processes, through the application of:‐ 3.8.1 Knowledge 3.8.2 Communication 3.8.3 Cognitive, technical and creative skills 3.8.4 Research 3.8.4 Ethical and Professional Responsibility 3.9 Management of change, disputes, arbitration and mediation, through the
application of:‐ 3.9.1 Knowledge 3.9.2 Communication
3.9.3 Cognitive, technical and creative skills 3.9.4 Research 3.9.4 Ethical and Professional Responsibility
3.10 Cri
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tical analysis of the implications and impacts of safety, ough the
application of:‐ 3.10.1 Knowledge 3.10.2 Communication 3.10.3 Cognitive, technical and creative skills 3.10.4 Research 3.10.4 Ethical and Professional Responsibility 3.11 Exploration of modern approaches to extended projects,
through the application of:‐ 3.11.1 3.11.2 3.11.3 3.11.4 3.11.4 3.12 Ensuring sustainability, through the application of:‐ 3.12.1
3.12.2 3.12.3 3.12.4 3.12.4
Qualitative assessment of the submission Clarity of expression, grammar and spelling Conformance to the CQU Harvard Style Document clarity and presentation format
Late penalty where applicable TOTAL MARKS Final result: (Total marks/100)*35 = Final mark
Conditions Minimum mark or grade ‐ 17 marks (approximately 50% of the total marks for this assignment)
Learning Outcomes
Assessed
1. Use clear terminology to describe the key areas of project, program and portfolio management
practices as applies to asset rich organisations.
2. Discuss the relevance of tools and techniques for investigating and describing project process
related to developing new workings, facilities, equipment, plant and processes or maintaining existing
facilities and equipment.
3. Present and interpret major processes that are based on sound policy, information, and research
that enable project justification, tenders, contracts, and selection criteria to occur in an asset rich
organisation.
4. Critically analyse management strategies and operational activities from a broad perspective to
ensure safety and quality, to avoid overruns or rework, to manage variations and claims, and to make
decisions to discontinue or close projects.
5. Demonstrate an effective, professional level of teamwork and communication and support
collaborative peer group learning.
Graduate Attributes
being assessed Knowledge Communication Cognitive, technical and creative skills Research Ethical and Professional Responsibility