ASSESSMENT BRIEF
Subject Code and Title PROJ 6000: Principles of Project Management
Assessment Assessment 4 – Personal Reflection
Individual/Group Individual
Length 500 – 600 words
Learning Outcomes Successful completion of this assignment will result in achievement of the following subject learning outcomes:
1. Understand PMBOK knowledge areas and process groups and their role, relevance and impact on project management best practice and PMI’s Code of Ethics.
2. Critically compare and contrast project management approaches and their appropriateness for managing a variety of project types.
3. Apply appropriate project management tools and techniques, paying particular attention to risk management.
4. Critically reflect on the leadership styles necessary to succeed in a range of project management situations, and their personal capacity to succeed in those situations.
Submission By 11:55pm AEST/AEDT Last Friday of Module 6
Weighting 20%
Total Marks 100 marks
Context:
At the beginning of your learning journey on this subject, you were encouraged to maintain a Reflection Journal. This journal will provide an opportunity for you to reflect on your learning, document lessons learned, identify global project management practices you hope to adopt in your career and recognise current strengths, limitations and struggles. In short, your journal is a tool for reflecting and developing self-awareness in all matters relevant to
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you as a project manager and leader. Using the guidelines provided you should make a new reflection journal entry for each module.
Instructions:
At the end of Module 6, you will be required to submit a 500–600-word summary of your learning throughout the subject.
Your summary should include your assessment of the value of the reflection journal as a component of your learning experience. How has it contributed to your understanding of the subject matter? Has it changed the way you approach learning?
Identify any subject matter you found difficult to understand, and describe how you dealt with this challenge.
How has this subject contributed to your current growth as a project manager and your future capacity to perform project management effectively? What do you think are your strengths and limitations? Based on what you have learnt in this subject, describe leadership styles and their characteristics in the project management context. For two or three different project types, identify appropriate leaderships styles and explain why they are appropriate. Additionally, reflect briefly on how your own leadership style might compare to those that lead to project success.
Include references to readings and additional resources discovered. By maintaining a journal in each module, you will have a reflective resource to use in completing the assessment.
Output and Submission:
Submit your completed assessment at the end of module 6.
Learning Resources:
Document: Reflection Journal Guidelines (PDF)
Assessment Criteria
This assessment will be graded using the Learning Rubric below. It is worth 20% of the marks available for this subject.
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Learning Rubrics
Assessment Attributes Fail (0-49) Pass (50-64) Credit (65-74) Distinction (75-84) High Distinction (85-100)
Effective communication
25% Difficult to understand for audience, no logical/clear structure, poor flow of ideas, argument lacks supporting evidence.
No effort is made to keep audience engaged, audience cannot follow the line of reasoning.
Little use of presentation aids, or the presentation aids and material used are irrelevant. Information, arguments and evidence are presented in a way that is not always clear and logical.
Attempts are made to keep the audience engaged, but not always successful. Line of reasoning is often difficult to follow.
Presentation aids are used more for effect than relevance. Information, arguments and evidence are well presented, mostly clear flow of ideas and arguments.
The audience is mostly engaged, line of reasoning is easy to follow.
Effective use of presentation aids. Information, arguments and evidence are very well presented, the presentation is logical, clear and well supported by evidence.
Engages the audience, demonstrates cultural sensitivity.
Carefully and well prepared presentations aids are used. Expertly presented; the presentation is logical, persuasive, and well supported by evidence, demonstrating a clear flow of ideas and arguments.
Engages and sustains audience’s interest in the topic, demonstrates high levels of cultural sensitivity
Effective use of diverse presentation aids, including graphics and multimedia.
Knowledge and understanding
25% Limited understanding of required concepts and knowledge
Key components of the assignment are not addressed. Knowledge or understanding of the field or discipline.
Resembles a recall or summary of key ideas.
Often Thorough knowledge or understanding of the field or discipline/s. Supports personal opinion and information substantiated by evidence from the Highly developed understanding of the field or discipline/s.
Discriminates between assertion of personal opinion A sophisticated understanding of the field or discipline/s.
Systematically and critically discriminates between assertion of personal opinion and
conflates/confuses assertion of personal opinion with information substantiated by evidence from the research/course materials. research/course materials.
Demonstrates a capacity to explain and apply relevant concepts. and information substantiated by robust evidence from the research/course materials and extended reading.
Well demonstrated capacity to explain and apply relevant concepts. information substantiated by robust evidence from the research/course materials and extended reading.
Mastery of concepts
and application to new
situations/further learning.
Self reflection
50% No attempt to demonstrate connections to previous learning or experience.
No attempt at self-criticism.
Reflection is irrelevant to student and/course learning goals. Little to no attempt to demonstrate connections between learning experience and material, and/or personal goals.
Analysis is defensive or lack of depth.
Some attempt at selfcriticism, but fails to demonstrate awareness of personal biases, stereotypes or preconceptions.
No attempt at asking probing questions about self. Inconsistently draws connections between the experience and materials from other courses, and/or past experiences.
Sometimes defensive or one-sided in analysis.
Some attempt at selfcriticism, but fails to demonstrate awareness of personal biases, stereotypes or preconceptions.
Asks some probing questions about self, but do not attempt to The reflection demonstrates connections between the experience and material from other courses, and/or past experiences.
Demonstrates a non-defensive ability to selfappraise, discussing mostly growth related to learning.
Demonstrates the ability to question own biases, The reflection demonstrates connections between the experience and material from other courses; past experiences; and/or personal goals.
Demonstrates an open, non-defensive ability to selfappraise, discussing both growth and frustrations related to learning.
Demonstrates the ability to question own biases, stereotypes,
answer these. stereotypes, preconceptions but new modes of thinking is not evident.
Risks asking probing questions about self but only attempts to answer these sometimes. preconceptions and define new modes of thinking as a result.
Risks asking probing questions about self and attempts to answer these.