CQUniversity Unit Profile.

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:

1. The learning outcomes and module/topic of the unit;
2. A description of your experience, including reading samples or records;
3. Your learning from your experiences;
4. 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 practice 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 an essay reflecting on your learning and experience through the term and is NOT just your weekly portfolios put together.

The assessment for this assignment will consist of a measurement of how comprehensively you address the following criteria:

1. Evidence in regular weekly portfolios of meeting the graduate attributes? (20%) 
2. Qualitative reflections of each of the unit learning outcomes? (40%)
3. Quantitative achievement of the unit topics? (20%)
4. Clarity of expression, grammar and spelling? (5%)
5. Strict conformity to CQUniversity Australia APA Referencing Guide (author-date)? (5%)
6. Document clarity and presentation format? (10%)

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 practice 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.

TASK

Your task is to consider the contents of the unit and apply it to a tender request. Your tender must do the following:

1. Define the project in the context of mining, plant, or a large asset;
2. Explain the project justification and contract process;
3. Explain the financing of the project;
4. Identify the project conditions, project team and project processes required;
5. Provide your expected estimates to the tenderer for the project labour, plant, materials, and sub-contractors;
6. Provide your requirements for project changes;
7. Provide your requirements for quality assurance and quality control;
8. Provide your requirements for document management, reporting and governance;
9. Provide your requirements for disputes, arbitration and mediation;
10. 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 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. However, the assessment must be your own.

The file submitted must be a Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) document.

Submit a copy of your tender online through the unit website on Moodle.

You can submit any additional documents (drawings, specifications, etc) in a Zip file. However, your tender essay MUST be a separate Word document so that Turnitin scoring can be completed.

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.

1. Reflection of AS 4120-1994 (45%) 
2. Financing justification and financial arrangements of the project by the Principal (5%) 
3. Contractual terms (15%)
4. Quality Assurance and Control requirements (20%)
5. Safety requirements (15%)

ASSIGNMENT

• There will be 10 multiple choice questions in the quiz which will be randomly selected from a pool of questions.
• 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 and your average score will apply.
• You have 30 minutes on each time to attempt the quiz.

PURPOSE

• The primary purpose of this assessment item is to help you to identify factors associated with the first five 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.

1. Your answers will be graded in Moodle based on material from the first five week of this unit.
   
2. An average score for your attempts will apply.
3. You have 30 minutes on each time to attempt the quiz.

This is an open book test.

• The test will be of 2 hours duration (120 minutes + 15 minutes perusal time).
• You will have to download the test, read the questions, make your answers, check, and finally upload your answers back into Moodle within 135 minutes.
• You should make sure you upload your test answers within time-frame otherwise a penalty of 5% will be applied for every 5 minutes of late submission.
• You should make sure that you save drafts of your test answers frequently in Moodle to ensure that you have partial answers secured in Moodle.
• The test will comprise of 10 questions. You are to submit your answers to 5 of the 10 questions using the assessment submission link located in Moodle.
• Your submission must be in a Microsoft Word document file format.

• Concise and completeness of the answer with relevant information to the question in context (10% per answer).
• Critical analysis of underpinning ideas and theories supported by relevant references taken from the unit (10% per answer).