Week 1
· What is a system?
· What is systems thinking?
· What is a project, a program, and a portfolio?
· Does systems thinking have any advantages for project management, or program management, or portfolio management?
· Does systems thinking have any disadvantages for PPPM?
· Is there anything that will explain these reflections using the Project-based Work Flow?
· Mandatory Readings:
· – SEBoK http:
www.sebokwiki.org;
· Part 1: SEBoK Introduction - 'Introduction to SEBoK'
· Part 1: SEBoK Introduction -'Introduction to Systems Engineering';
· Part 7: Systems Engineering Implementation Examples: Matrix of Implementation Examples;
· – Kerzner XXXXXXXXXXChapters 2.1; XXXXXXXXXX; 2.21;
· – AS/NZS 15288:2015 Introduction;
· Optional Readings
· – AS ISO 21504:2016 Project, programme and portfolio management— Guidance on portfolio management
· – Portfolio Instructions
· Case Study Web Site:
· – PDF Report - Full Final Report from the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
· – YouTube - Anatomy of a Disaster - A Safety Video by CSB
· – YouTube - Deepwater Horizon (Documentary) - from National Geographic
Channel
· – YouTube - Deep Water Horizon: What Happened, why, and where do we go from here? - by Frank Alcock, New College of Florida
· Mandatory Readings:
· – SEBoK http:
www.sebokwiki.org;
· Part 1: SEBoK Introduction - 'Introduction to SEBoK'
· Part 1: SEBoK Introduction -'Introduction to Systems Engineering';
· Part 7: Systems Engineering Implementation Examples: Matrix of Implementation Examples;
· – Kerzner XXXXXXXXXXChapters 2.1; XXXXXXXXXX; 2.21;
· – AS/NZS 15288:2015 Introduction;
· Optional Readings
· – AS ISO 21504:2016 Project, programme and portfolio management— Guidance on portfolio management
· – Portfolio Instructions
· Case Study Web Site:
· – PDF Report - Full Final Report from the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
· – YouTube - Anatomy of a Disaster - A Safety Video by CSB
· – YouTube - Deepwater Horizon (Documentary) - from National Geographic
Channel
· – YouTube - Deep Water Horizon: What Happened, why, and where do we go from here? - by Frank Alcock, New College of Florida