Value group 1

Value group 2

Value group 3

Value Group 4

Value group 5

Acceptance

Ambition

Achievement

Being the best

Accountability

Advancement

Ethics

Commitment

Intelligence

Curiosity

Brilliance

Humanity

Loyalty

Motivation

Learning

Leadership

Mindfulness

Making a difference

Risk taking

Responsiveness

Quality

Safety

Recognition

Well-being

Perfection

Punctuality

Teamwork

Preparedness

Understanding

Professionalism

Level of importance

Value

1^st (Most important)

Perfection

2^nd

Professionalism

3^rd

Brilliance

4^th

Quality

5^th

Safety

Perfection value provides perfect value to the customers throughout perfect value creation process. Professionalism value changes the profession, sociologies of work along with occupations. Brilliance changes skills and intelligence while quality value for customer’s satisfaction. Safety leads to secure of customer’s health. 

Not competent

Somewhat competent

Uncertain

Competent

Highly Competent

Agile practices

X

Data gathering and modelling

X

Earned Value Management

X

Governance

X

Lifecycle management

X

Performance management

X

Requirements management and traceability

X

Risk management

X

Schedule management

X

Scope management

X

Time, budget, and cost estimation

X

The technical project management competence has changed my managing as well as leading skills into the project. The competence helps to build trust for taking responsibility as part of the project. Earned value management, Requirements management and traceability, performance management and Risk management are at higher competent level.

Not competent

Somewhat competent

Uncertain

Competent

Highly Competent

Benefits management and realisation

X

Business acumen

X

Business models and structures

X

Competitive analysis

X

Customer relationship and satisfaction

X

Industry Knowledge and standards

X

Legal and regulatory compliance

X

Market awareness and conditions

X

Operational functions (e.g. finance, marketing)

X

Strategic planning, analysis, alignment

X

Into strategic and business management, there are higher competent in customer relationship and satisfaction, industry Knowledge and standards, therefore in order to satisfy the customers there must be better customer relationships by building trust and delivery of quality product and services meet with customer satisfaction. All the employees should maintain a good knowledge and standards for the project.

Not competent

Somewhat competent

Uncertain

Competent

Highly Competent

Brainstorming

X

Coaching and mentoring

X

Conflict management

X

Emotional intelligence

X

Influencing

X

Interpersonal skills

X

Listening

X

Negotiation

X

Problem solving

X

Team building

X

Error recognition

X

Leadership skills are based on listening to the employees, problem solving and team building. A good leader should solve the problems of employees and build a team of higher skilled and knowledgeable members.

Compare and discuss your answers to (a) and (b). Is there a difference between the two? What are the potential causes of any difference or similarity?

How does this made you feel?

What lessons I have learnt about myself from this experience?

Comparing answers a and b, I have noticed that there is no a big difference between the answers as in a, I achieved of project management skills and knowledge while working and in b, I definitely achieved manage time, which is one of the project management skills i.e. time management.

I feel that before working into any project whether it is technical or not, we have some basic knowledge on project management.

I learned of time management which helps in my future project to manage the time so that I can deliver the work on estimated time.

I have diverse range of capabilities to manage the project work. I am flexible to execute the project and met with project deadline.

As this is the first time into such project, I have lack of knowledge into meeting the project deadlines.

Challenge

Situation

Describe your experience of the following conceptsin the context of the unit, including whether you found this challenging or not.

Your Reaction

How did you react (note both feelings and actions) to the challenges?

Industry readiness

How does having this experience better prepare you for working in industry?

a) Dealing with the pressures of extremely tight timeframes and limited resources.

When working into the project, I am under tight deadlines to complete the work on time.

I become stressed due to limited resources, as I have to complete more of the work on scheduled time.

I gained experience of managing time.

b) Dealing with team dynamics when team members may be diverse, have differing expectations and commitment.

When the team members have different expectations, there is conflict among the teams.

Conflict lessens the success rate of the project.

I achieved to manage of conflicts among the groups.

c) Defining an innovative solutionfor a social issue that is not your primary area of expertise.

While starting to work into the project, I faced issued of lack of project management skills.

Lack of skills and knowledge into technical field, I faced challenge to manage the schedule and budget.

After gaining knowledge into technical field, it helps me to work in this field in the future.

d) Achieving project delivery for a social issue that is not your primary area of expertise.

Delivery of project on time is a bug deal for me.

Lack of knowledge on managing the delivery time

I gained experience to schedule the project activities and allocate the tasks to all team members based on their expertise.

e) Engaging with and eliciting feedback fromstakeholders

I do not have knowledge on how to take survey of the stakeholders.

I have taken help from my senior members to take survey from them.

I analysed the feedback and then come to the require results.

Demonstrated Hard Skill

Technical project management skills, the hard skills are ability to perform of technical aspects of the project. The technical skills are included of knowledge, skills into the information technology and scientific tasks.

Situation

I prepared work schedule to complete the project on time using Ms project software. I have knowledge to operate work schedule software to keep the project progress.

Task

Technical skills involve preparing of work breakdown structure to provide details of the project.

Action

I have managed various technical reports which include of cost information, project schedule information and risk management reports.

Result

Estimate the completion time of project

Demonstrated Soft Skill

Interpersonal and leadership skills, these skills are required when communicating with the project team members. Leadership skills are required for building strong relationship and motivating people to work more.

Situation

I used of interpersonal skills when communicating and interacting with other people both individually as well as into the groups.

Task

At the time of allocating the project activities among team members, leadership skills are used.

Action

Successful leaders are tending to show higher communicational skills when communicating with the members.

Result

Successful completion of project work

Option

Action

Submit

Option 3.

Improve your industry exposure and networks

b)Apply for certification

I planned to get PMP certified to achieve my career objective.  The eligibility criteria for this PMP certification is:

· 4-year of bachelor’s degree

· 35 hours of project management educations

· 4500 hours of experience to lead and direct project

At first, I should apply for exam, then application review and payment.  Second step is prepared for PMP certification exam and then third step is sit for the exam.

I would advise the students those would sit for the exam is to get knowledge on PMP before sit for the exam.

a)Building your CV

Work / career related action to add to yourCurriculum Vitae (CV).

Research and teaching experiences

Award and honours related information

(Please insert your CV) 

b)Finding Balance

Fun / exciting activity that you have never done before (does not need to be work related)

Take a spontaneous road trip with my friends

OPTIONAL – email contact

Provide an email address that will be active in six months if you wish to receive a follow-up email(note if this is your last unit the CQU email may not still be active).

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