International prject management

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1. The learning objectives as set out in your initiation report.

The learning objectives and personal goals may seem to differ from one engineer to another. In general, when choosing the International Project Management course the primary aim is to effectively practice project management skills with an international dimension, to familiarize oneself with the diversity of the various standards as well as maintaining awareness of the differences between countries in terms of managing projects. This will assist me to be qualified to manage projects overseas with a international management techniques which will broaden my outlook and sense of perspective. Furthermore, there are some personal goals as follows.

  • Improve the ability of managing the nine areas of PM standard and can easily apply them and match report types to examples of their use to be able to solve problems as a project manager.
  • Recognise the importance of leadership in project management and match project manager roles with examples.
  • Identify the types of questions to ask to define a project and role as the project manager.
  • Determine the right amount of project management in given scenarios with a greater understanding of different PM standards.
  • Recognise the types of project authority and match project stakeholders to examples of their responsibilities.
  • Identify appropriate team members for a project in a given scenario and match imposed team issues with solutions.
  • Match the stages of team development to their characteristics for better use of team development tools to manage the development of a project team in a given scenario.
  • Recognise ways that project management software can be used to manage projects.
  • Increase the competency to be able to get higher level of PM certificate.

2. A comparison of what you have learnt with the objectives set out

Before comparing of what I have learnt with the objectives set out using the Australian National Standard for Competency in Project Management at level 5 and the ICB Global Competency Standard at level B. I organised my objectives based upon how much experience and the requirements which should be met to gain maximum improvement of competency based on their assessment as it shown in table 1.

Competency gap table showing the competency before taking this course as well as what I expect to achieve for assessing my progress in this course. Then, is the next step which is in long term that I hope to attain after 5 years.

2.1 A comparison of what I have learnt with the objectives set out for AIPM at Level 5.

Table 3 shows a comparison of what I have learnt in this course with my target grade which is related to my objectives of taking this course by using the Australian National Standard for Competency in Project Management at level 5 for each area of knowledge. I have written comments under each area as an evidence guide to what I have learnt and to guide myself to improve the concerned competency area.

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2.2 A comparison of what I have learnt with the objectives set out in the ICB at Level B.

A comparison of what you have learnt with the objectives set out using the Global Competency ICB. In the ICB there are three ranges containing related competence elements, technical, behavioural and contextual competence. Table 4, 5 and 6 show the elements of ICB standard that used in the Self-assessment for each range.

* This rating assessment has been composed based on personal views and feelings as they do not reflect ICB assessment at all. 5=I feel confident in this ...

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