PPMP20012 Template Portfolio - Week 1

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Lina Olmos / 12107123 - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 1 Week 1 Topic: Explain the relevance of systems thinking to PM. Reading samples Learning outcomes of the unit Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and prior unit readings and assignments Supporting documentation including any prior learning Mandatory Readings  SEBoK: 'Introduction to SEBoK'  SEBoK: 'Introduction to Systems Engineering';  SEBoK: Part 7: Systems Engineering Implementation Examples  Kerzner (2013) Chapters 2.1; 2.6 - 2.8; 2.21;  AS/NZS 15288:2015 Introduction; Optional Readings  AS ISO 21504:2016 Project, programme and portfolio management— Guidance on portfolio 1. Explain the relevance of systems thinking to the project, program and portfolio manager. In this portfolio please reflect on the readings (1 st column) and the learning outcome (2 nd column). Ask yourself in what way does the readings provide insights into the learning outcome? Maybe they don’t! What are your thoughts?` Are there other insights that you can make from other units that you have studied? Or your work and life experience? From the reading and the lecture, I could understand that systems engineering is an integration of different engineering disciplines or fields to meet the user’s requirements and needs trough the delivery of an effective systems. System engineering provide concepts and practices to be applied in any project, program, portfolio such as scheduling, risk management, validation and testing. Such as concepts are significant during the development of a projects as per their misuse or absence the project could fail or encounter problems. By following this approach, the project is ensuring its success or unless minimizing the likelihood of failure. During the lecture was also mentioned and outlined that there can be multiple systems elements par the of a system that interact with each other’s and external elements such as environment, users among others. SE systems help to create synergy through those interactions to engage those to work. The SE also ensures that quality characteristics such as functional, performance, physical, and cost SEBok, 2019 “Denver Airport Baggage System SEBok, 2019 “introduction to SEBok” SEBok, 2019 “ foundation of systems Engineering”. National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling 2011 “Deepwater disaster” 1 of 3

Lina Olmos / 12107123 - PPMP20012 Unit Portfolio for Week 1 Reading samples Learning outcomes of the unit Learnings from your weekly study, experience, this and prior unit readings and assignments Supporting documentation including any prior learning management; and schedule are balanced to meet the requirements. Denver airport baggage systems is a crystal-clear example of a failure system whose outcome was a delay of 16 months and 500 million of overbudget. The main objective of the system was to ensure the baggage to arrive safely and timely. The system consisted of a multiple complex systems and subsystems to develop in an ambitious schedule involving system engineering with high risks among other problems that could have been mitigate by implementing an effective System engineering approach; therefore, the problems encountered were lack of adequate project management processes and procedures which led to the failure of the systems. The system thinking process provides the concepts and knowledge that enable the understating the problems as well as their possible solutions to any problem arisen during the development of a system. The BP disaster could be described as a lack of a proper approach of both System Engineering and system thinking. The BP’s system Engineering approach was not effective (risk assessment, procedures, processes etc); besides, they lack contingency plans as their system thinking approach was not effective; they lacked of problem analysis and problem-solving skills. 2 of 3

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