1 Portfolio
Assessment Title
Consolidated Portfolio
Task Description
DETAILS
In this unit 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 unit. Your portfolio provides an account of your learning based on your practice and your critical reflection.
Further information is available on the Moodle site.
TASK
Your task is to write a weekly portfolio reflecting upon your learnings from the prior week. In your portfolio you will identify:
- The learning outcomes and module/topic of the unit;
- A description of your experience, including reading samples or records;
- Your learning from your experiences;
- Any supporting documentation of prior or current learning.
PURPOSE
The primary purpose of this assessment item 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 unit in relation to specific experiences in your project management practise and demonstrate that you have learned from those experiences and how you have achieved or maintained your professional competence as a result.
STRUCTURE
You will be provided on the Moodle web site with a portfolio template. You should use this template and upload a weekly portfolio to the Moodle web site. At the end of this unit 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 style. You are also encouraged to include a bibliography. This assessment item involves researching the topics to enhance your understanding of each concept through a utilisation of academic literature and secondary sources. Whilst you must use the recommended textbook you should also refer to other sources on the Moodle web site and additional relevant peer reviewed academic journal articles of your choosing.
SUBMISSION
You are encouraged to discuss your ideas with your business and student colleagues on the unit discussion forum, before submitting your portfolio.
The file submitted must be a Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) document.
Submit a copy of your consolidated portfolio online through the unit website on Moodle.
Please be aware that the Consolidated Portfolio is a 1-2 page essay reflecting on your learnings and experience through the term and is NOT your weekly portfolios put together.
Assessment Criteria
The assessment for this assignment will consist of a measurement of how comprehensively you address the following criteria:
- Evidence of weekly portfolio’s being done as the consolidated portfolio refers to the reflections of the weekly topics (be aware that the weekly portfolios are NOT assignments and are not marked)
- Reflections of the unit learning outcomes of the term referring to "reflections" relevant in selected weeks.
- Clear reference to topics covered in the course in the reflection.
A more detailed assessment criteria will be published on the Moodle web site.
Learning Outcomes Assessed
- Review using clear terminology the key areas and processes of project, program and portfolio management practices as applies to asset rich organisations.
- Discuss the relevance of tools and techniques for investigating and describing project process related to developing new workings, facilities, equipment, plant and processes for justifying, designing, developing, or maintaining existing facilities and equipment within the context of their technological and asset lifecycle status.
- 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.
- 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.
- Demonstrate an effective, professional level of teamwork and communication and support collaborative peer group learning.
Graduate Attributes
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
2 Written Assessment
Task Description
DETAILS
You should use AS 4120-1994 as the basis of developing a tender request as the principal for a project in the mining, construction or in an industry where there are large plant equipment and/or large assets being managed or maintained. The project may be one of your choosing based on your current work practise or may be one selected from a set of possible projects on the Moodle web site. You must ensure that your tender document is consistent with all of the Australian standards referred to in this unit.
Should you wish to use a tender template from the organisation you work for then you may do so. However, you must ensure that all of the ten items in the task definition below are included in your tender.
You must obtain the agreement from your lecturer and unit coordinator that the subject project scope of your tender is suitable for this unit.
Further information is available on the Moodle site.
TASK
Your task is to consider the contents of the unit and apply it to a tender request. Your tender must do the following:
- Define the project in the context of mining, plant, or a large asset;
- Explain the project justification and contract process;
- Explain the financing of the project;
- Identify the project conditions, project team and project processes required;
- Provide your expected estimates to the tenderer for the project labour, plant, materials, and sub-contractors;
- Provide your requirements for project changes;
- Provide your requirements for quality assurance and quality control;
- Provide your requirements for document management, reporting and governance;
- Provide your requirements for disputes, arbitration and mediation;
- Provide your requirements for safety.
PURPOSE
The primary purpose of this assessment item is to help you to develop skills for expressing the manner in which a principal normally engages with contractors through a tendering process. 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 argument development and tender writing.
STRUCTURE
Your tender should be as much as practically possible a properly constructed tender. However, you must also apply the rigours of an academic essay. Therefore, you must include references within your tender and a reference list formatted in the prescribed style is compulsory at the end of your tender. Do not include a bibliography.
SUBMISSION
You are strongly encouraged to discuss your ideas with your business and student colleagues on the unit discussion forum, before drawing your conclusions and submitting your assignment.
The file submitted must be a Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) document.
Submit a copy of your essay online through the unit website on Moodle.
ASSIGNMENT SIZE AND REFERENCING CRITERIA
There is NO word limit for this assignment as each project selected will differ and the amount of documentation in a tender can differ; however it is hoped that your assignment will be concise. You are encouraged to take advantage of referencing as a means of limiting the number of words in the assignment. When you are incorporating many of the sections from the Assessment Criteria below you can refer to the text contained in the relevant standard. For example, using the assessment criteria below you can put for 1.3.1.9 -“Closing of tenders – tender closing will conform to AS 4120-1994 section 6.4 p.9”. If you have used a tender as a template that you have taken from your company then you may have different words that make it harder to align to the standards. You should then look through your tender template and whenever possible add a comment, such as – “this section is similar to AS 4120-1994 section 6.4 p.9”. Ensuring you have accurate references is important and will allow the marker to easily identify where your tender maps to the unit material. As a consequence you will be able to gain the MAXIMUM MARKS.
Assessment Criteria
The assessment for this assignment will consist of a measurement of how comprehensively you address the following criteria:
- Reflection of AS 4120-1994(10%)
- Financing justification and financial arrangements of the project by the Principal (10%)
- A clear description of the arrangements of the Financing of the project by the Principal (10%)
- Contractual terms(20%)
- Quality Assurance and Control requirements(20%)
- Safety requirements (20%)
- Clarity of expression, grammar and spelling (10%)
A more detailed assessment criteria will be published on the Moodle web site.
Learning Outcomes Assessed
- Review using clear terminology the key areas and processes of project, program and portfolio management practices as applies to asset rich organisations.
- Discuss the relevance of tools and techniques for investigating and describing project process related to developing new workings, facilities, equipment, plant and processes for justifying, designing, developing, or maintaining existing facilities and equipment within the context of their technological and asset lifecycle status.
- 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.
- 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.
- Demonstrate an effective, professional level of teamwork and communication and support collaborative peer group learning.
Graduate Attributes
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
3 Online Quiz(zes)
Task Description
ASSIGNMENT
You will be required to complete a series of multiple choice quiz questions.
Further information is available on the Moodle site.
PURPOSE
The primary purpose of this assessment item is to help you to identify factors associated with the first three weeks of the unit.
The secondary purpose of this assignment is to give you the opportunity to enhance your research, analysis and critical thinking skills.
Assessment Criteria
- There are twenty questions in the quiz.
- You may need to select one or more answers from each question to get 100% for that question.
- The quiz will be available from 00:00am Monday morning to midnight Sunday night (which is 00:00am the following Monday).
- You may attempt the quiz 3 times.
Submission
Online
Learning Outcomes Assessed
- Review using clear terminology the key areas and processes of project, program and portfolio management practices as applies to asset rich organisations.
- Discuss the relevance of tools and techniques for investigating and describing project process related to developing new workings, facilities, equipment, plant and processes for justifying, designing, developing, or maintaining existing facilities and equipment within the context of their technological and asset lifecycle status.
Graduate Attributes
- Knowledge
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
4 Online Test
Assessment Title
Online Test
Task Description
This is a 2 hour open book test.
Upon completion, and within the time 2-hour limit, you are to submit your question sheet with answers to 5 of the 10 questions using the assessment submission link located in Moodle.
You MUST upload the answer file BEFORE time is up.
Assessment Criteria
Each question that you answer is worth 7% (total max 35% for 5 questions)
Submission
Online
Learning Outcomes Assessed
- Review using clear terminology the key areas and processes of project, program and portfolio management practices as applies to asset rich organisations.
- Discuss the relevance of tools and techniques for investigating and describing project process related to developing new workings, facilities, equipment, plant and processes for justifying, designing, developing, or maintaining existing facilities and equipment within the context of their technological and asset lifecycle status.
- 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.
- 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.
Graduate Attributes
- Knowledge
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
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