1) The document outlines the competencies achieved by the student in project management fundamentals courses over one semester. 2) It provides details on the student's competencies at the start and end of the semester for both socio-cultural skills and project management skills. 3) By the end of the semester, the student achieved an involved level of competency across most skills areas, as demonstrated through project work experience and activities completed as part of course assignments.

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ASIA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE
SELF LEARNING FINAL REPORT
SEMESTER I
SBM 1101, 1102, 1201
SHALINI SINGH
STUDENT ID: 201400853

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1. Table of Contents
2. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................3
3. COMPETENCIES ACHIEVED .................................................................................................................4
4. 2.1. Socio Cultural & Personal Competencies: .....................................................................................4
5. 2.1.1 Competencies at the commencement of semester one:..............................................................4
6. 2.1.2 Competencies post completion of Activity 1, Activity 2 & Activity 3 of Semester one:..................5
7. 2.2 Competencies for Project Management Fundamentals:.................................................................9
8. 2.2.1 Competency before course commencement:..............................................................................9
9. 2.2.2 Competencies post completion of Activity 1, Activity 2 & Activity 3 of Semester one:................11
10. 2.2.3 Competencies achieved at the end of the semester:.................................................................19
11. 3. Conclusion: ..................................................................................................................................22
12. 4. Appendix I Personal Goals (L&D)...................................................................................................25
13. Short Term Goal (less than a year):...................................................................................................25
14. Medium Term Goal (between 1-2 years):..........................................................................................25
15. Long Term Goal (post 2 years): .........................................................................................................25
16. 5. Appendix II Personal SWOT Analysis (LPD) ....................................................................................26
17. SWOT ANALYSIS:..............................................................................................................................26
18. 6. Appendix III Progress against Plan (L&D).......................................................................................27
19. 7. Directory to Evidence: ..................................................................................................................28
20. 7.1 SOCIO CULTURAL SKILLS: ............................................................................................................28
21. 7.2 Management Skills & Experience: ...............................................................................................30
22. ........................................................................................................................................................30
23. PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS SKILLS:............................................................................36

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1. INTRODUCTION
Before joining APIC College in Sydney, I have been exposed to professional industrial experience where I have
been working in the capacity of Team Leader Operations for 4 years in India.
Being a post graduate in Masters in Business & Management (2009 batch) from India, it has been much
comfortable for me to accomplish & achieve excellent performance at work. Started my career as an executive I
managed to quickly climb the ladder as a Team Leader where I had an opportunity to handle & lead a team of 15
advisors.
However, to reach the expected heights in career I always urged to work as an expert in Project Management
field. So I applied & got admission in APIC as a student for eth course of Masters in Business & Project
Management.
During this first semester pursuing MBPM, it has been an opportunity as well as a challenge for me to be able to
understand the aspects of Project Management and implement the same in our project report and assignments.
Following has been few summarized points that enabled me to understand the Project Management concepts:
1. At the beginning of the course my Socio-Cultural competencies were low that I developed during my
first semester, as I had an opportunity to work with multicultural team and International standards.
2. With respect to Technical skills like understanding Project Management Fundamentals at the initial
phase of the course I had absolutely negligible knowledge of any concepts.
3. However with the help of lectures, notes, and tutorial & study material I have been able to understand
the Project management skills well in detail.
Post completion of this course, I aim at getting a job as a Project management professional specialized in
Strategic Management with a good understanding of International policies & framework to deal with strategy
formulation globally.
The following document outlines my competencies in Project Management fundamentals modules namely SBM
1101, SBM 1102 & SBM 1201 along with Socio Cultural Competencies from initiation till completion of first
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2 COMPETENCIES ACHIEVED
2.1 Socio Cultural & Personal Competencies:
Competencies at the commencement of semester one:
At the commencement of this semester I set my Socio cultural competencies target at 80%, however based on
my skills & knowledge at that time I had set my understanding at much lower level that I aimed to grow during
completion of this semester.
The bar chart shown below has illustrated my skills at the commencement of this course:
Bar titles:
1: Generic
2: Leadership
3: Commitment
4: Attitude
5: Self Direction
6: Learning
7: Cultural Empathy
8: Creativity &
Innovation
Fig 1. Socio Cultural & personal competencies at the commencement of course
The table below shows my socio cultural competency elements at the beginning of this course:

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Description Deficiencies
Generic Have to have in depth understanding of professional behavior and ethics globally
Leadership Yet to excel and learn leadership skills as a Senior Manager while managing business
units.
Commitment Need to work on managing study, work and personal life side by side here while
successfully accomplishing all expectation from me in all three areas.
Attitude I have been a flexible manager while I feel I need to learn how to deal with the
stubborn and rigid clients. Also while being resourceful need to understand to
delegate the work pressure and not taking all pressure on me.
Self-Direction Need to learn about carrying broader responsibility of self-motivation and being
following policies and framework in multicultural environment
Learning I am a quick learner, but I need to improve on getting good learning among team
member & keep them motivated to be growing on their learning curve.
Cultural Empathy I have never been exposed to multicultural environment although have dealt with
people from different backgrounds & ethics. Still need to learn skills to deal with
people from different nationalities.
Creativity Innovation Have been actively involved to introduce new innovative ideas at work although
while being a part of professional environment sometimes was difficult to bring own
ideas and introduce changes at work that I want to improve on & show the positive
impact I may bring with them to have an approval from my clients.
Competencies post completion of Activity 1, Activity 2 & Activity 3 of Semester one:
The figure shown below explains the trend of socio-cultural competencies I acquired post completion of Activity
1, Activity 2 and Activity 3. The competencies are categorized as:
Attitude Commitment
Generic Leadership
Creativity & innovation Cultural Empathy
Learning Self-Direction

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Attitude Commitment
Generic Leadership
Creativity & Innovation Cultural Empathy

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Learning Self-Direction
The Table below shows my competencies I acquired during the Course and have summarized by end of the
semester one:
Competency
Level
Achieved
Evidence
Generic Involved
1. At the beginning I have been able to understand the basic
concepts.
2. Understood the terms and was able to recognize the
conflicts among the team.
3. However I acquired skills to understand the concepts well
in detail while performing group activity during every
assignment.
4. Has been able to identify key skills among each team
member & delegate roles accordingly.
5. Have been actively involved in every group discussions and
meetings and has brought the conversations to fruitful results
with a clear objective to meet expectations required from each
activity.
Leadership Involved
1. I have been the Project Leader chosen by all team members
based on skills identified by peers in me.
2. Have been actively leading on all project related tasks
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3. I have been setting up the frame for all activities before the
team that defined the target set to complete each task.
4. Have motivated & directed team towards set goals to
accomplish with an aim to deliver desired outcomes from all
team activities
Commitment Involved
1. I have been actively involved in all group discussions &
meetings, be it face to face or through online communication
tools.
2. Have been able to identify the lack of involvement among
team member and has worked on improvement to bring the
expected results.
3. Have been fairly involved in understanding the
commitment required by each of the team member to deliver
expected work during each group activity.
4. Have been able to apply effective tools & methods of
communication & transaction among all team members to
bring the effective communication in team.
Attitude Involved
1. Have been able to identify variation in attitude of all team
members.
2. Have been able to integrate team efforts to bring
uniqueness in efforts.
3. Have been actively involved in identifying individual as
well as team honesty towards delivering results in
assignments and activities delegated.
4. Have imbibed positive attitude among team members by
bringing all meetings and discussions to viable outcomes that
are agreeable by all team mates.
Self-Direction Involved
1. Have been able to understand the importance of being
available for all group discussions and meetings
2. I have been available in class for all tasks & presentations
which were expected to be presented by team
3. Have delegated roles & responsibilities among team
members as per their skills & knowledge.
Learning Involved
1. Have done detailed research on all aspects of our online
beer project that has been relevant to the E-Commerce
industry
2. I have been able develop learning skills through developing
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3. Have identified and developed niche system for our project
to recognize eth target segment for online beer market.
Cultural empathy Involved
1. Our team is a mix of culture and nationalities with people
from France, Malaysia, Columbia, India etc. although I have
been able to work with in such multi-cultural team
2. As a team has been able to bring a common view in spite of
from different background and skill set.
Creativity &
Innovation
Involved
1. We as a team has introduced various skills and techniques
to develop the team integrity, as a team member I have
contributed to bring new innovative ideas at study
2. Have introduced new methods to develop charts & tables in
assignment & reports.
3. I have invited and welcomed all new ideas & suggestions given
by my team members during discussions to bring the creativity in
our work.
Competencies for Project Management Fundamentals:
Competency before course commencement:
The Graph and table shown below explains my managerial and technical project management competency at
the commencement of this course. I have been not exposed to most of the Project Management concepts and
areas that I needed to develop during this course.

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Area Description Deficiencies
1 PM_Fundamentals1 Have no direct exposure to Project Management
skills
5 PM_Fundamentals2 Need to have an in depth understanding of project
management theories and applications
6 Information_Communications Being a part of tech world need to understand more
into details of role of Information Communication
7 Leadership_Change_Management Have a theoretical learning approach towards
understanding Leadership skills.
10 PM_Fundamentals3 Inability to understand application of project
management skills professionally in different
industries.
11 PM_Fundamentals4 Lack of detailed excellence of knowledge towards
Project Management cycle and its professional
implementation
12 Venture_Proj_Econ_Finance Understand and learn to check financial feasibility
in project venture.
13 Proj_Prog_Delivery_Systems Complete unawareness to Project program
delivery system

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Competencies post completion of Activity 1, Activity 2 & Activity 3 of Semester one:
SBM 1101 Project Management Fundamentals 1:
The Table & graph shown below shows my Project management skills that I learned & acquired during this
semester.
SBM 1101 Project Management Fundamentals 1
Competency Score SCA PCA
Activity
1
Understanding projects & programs 100 33.33 33.33 1
Managing strategic context 98 33.33 32.5 1
Managing governance and decision making 100 33.33 32.5 1
Systems’ integration 80 33.33 32.5 1
Understanding projects & programs 85 53.33 47.33 2
Managing strategic context 80 55 48.33 2
Managing governance and decision making 85 55 47.33 2
Systems’ integration 80 60 51.67 2
Understanding projects & programs 90 60 72 3
Managing strategic context 85 55 65 3
Managing governance and decision making 80 50 63.5 3
Systems’ integration 85 60 55 3

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SBM 1102 Project Management Fundamentals 2:
The Table & graph shown below shows my Project management skills that I learned & acquired during this
semester.
SBM 1102 Project Management Fundamentals 2
Competency Score SCA PCA Activity
Project Human Resource Management 80 33.33 32.5 1
Project Communication Management 85 26.67 32.5 1
Project Integration Management 80 26.67 32.5 1
Project Human Resource Management 80 50 40.83 2
Project Communication Management 80 45 43.33 2
Project Integration Management 80 45 45.33 2
Project Human Resource Management 85 50 50.78 3
Project Communication Management 85 50 50.78 3
Project Integration Management 85 50 50.78 3

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SBM 1201 Project Management Fundamentals 3:
The Table & graph shown below shows my Project management skills that I learned & acquired during this
semester.
SBM 1201 Project Management Fundamentals 2
Competency Score SCA PCA
Activity
1
Project scope management 85 20 40 1
Project time management 80 26.67 40 1
Project cost management 85 26.67 40 1
Project scope management 80 45 46.67 2
Project time management 80 55 43.33 2

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Project cost management 80 45 43.33 2
Project scope management 85 33.33 48.67 3
Project time management 85 33.33 48.67 3
Project cost management 85 26.67 56.44 3

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Competencies achieved at the end of the semester:
Below is a summarized table that explained the competency I achieved and acquired post completion of this first
semester during Masters’ in Business & Project Management for SBM 1101, SBM 1102 and SBM 1201:
SBM 1101 Project Management Fundamentals 1
Competency
Level
Achieved
Evidence
Understanding projects &
programs
Involved
1. Have clearly understood Project & program definition,
concepts as during the project I have developed plan to
demonstrate Project Context
2. As I withhold an experience to work for an E-commerce
Project in cloud computing in India, has a clear
understanding of running a project & its objectives
3. I have developed the Project Charter that has defined the
detailed plan of our Website designing project
4. Have demonstrated Project & program differentiation
during our project report of World Beer Factory which is a
program with website & Marketing as two Projects managed
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Managing strategic context Involved
1. Have clearly defined our project strategic intent based on
identifying the business case
2. Developed the Strategic plan to achieve client's objectives
through defining KPI for our Website designing project.
3. Have been able to identify project related risks and
develop strategies to control risk aligned with project
activities
4. Have developed organizational plan for the current project
& have identified all stakeholders for the project
Managing governance and
decision making
Involved
1. Have developed governance framework for the successful
completion of the project
2. Defined roles & responsibilities within the team to ensure
quality outcomes in the Project
3. Identified criteria to delegate duties and authorities of
decision making based on skills & potential possessed by
each of the team member
4. Have designed Governance framework based on health
check plan including criteria such as quality management and
change management
Systems’ integration Involved
1. I have an experience into integrating organizational
framework to define strategy and develop quality plan.
2. Have developed Project Charter, WBS while defining
detailed Project management plan including Risk
management as well as KPI Mitigation plan.
3. Have been able to identify key performance indicators that
are aligned with organizational objectives.
4. Developed and contributed into Monitoring & Control plan
where I have developed health check plan based on
Governance based and outcome based assessments.
SBM 1102 Project Management Fundamentals 2
Competency
Level
Achieved
Evidence
Project Human Resource
Management
Involved
1. I have a rich experience into hiring human resource for
pilot projects as well as training & coaching them.
2. As a Team Leader I have been Leading & developing
attrition as well as occupancy for the temporary E-Commerce
projects.
3. During this Project assignment I have developed resource
requirement plan based on WBS activity structure.
4. Developed Resource levelling plan using MS Project tool in
which I have defined the duration & cost plan aligned to
human resource required by our project of Website
designing.
Project Communication
Management
Involved
1. I have contributed in identifying key communication
methods to bring efficiency in team activities & tasks aligned

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2. Effectively developed methods to communicate among
team members to ensure exclusion of any conflicts &
communication gap among team.
3. Have been effectively communicating via various tools
using Whatsapp, azendoo.com, face-to face meetings etc.
4. I have formulated communication plan & meetings for
team members to accomplish tasks assigned to each of the
team member.
Project Integration
Management
Informed
1. I have been involved into developing Integration plan for
our project of website designing.
2. Have developed Integration plan for the project for all
phases since initiation, planning, execution, monitoring &
controlling and closure.
3. Have been actively involved in defining key strengths of all
components of project and create a link between all phases
4. Have defined the plan to develop Environmental
Enterprise Factors as well as Organizational Process assets
SBM 1201 Project Management Fundamentals 3
Competency
Level
Achieved
Evidence
Project scope management Informed
1. Have understood the project scope and its impact on other
factors such as quality, time & cost management based on
PMBOK as well as APIC methodology
2. Have been able to comprehend the scope of our project as
a project manager while recognizing the feasibility check of
client's strategic objectives
3. I have performed detailed research on E-Commerce
industry to identify the scope of our project & perform the
viability check.
4. Understood the scope for our website designing project to
deliver online beer through highly competitive website
services.
Project time management Informed
1. I have been able to demonstrate time management
techniques to develop time schedule for a project in our QA
plan
2. Have been able to understand various tools & techniques
to design and define time schedule for any project
3. Have designed time schedule for our website project using
MS Project 2010 tool.
4. Have managed to align time to each task and activities
defined in WBS and accomplish set tasks during project
planning as well as delivery plan.
Project cost management Informed
1. Understood the project cost management concept during
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2. Have been able to identify various tools & techniques to
develop project cost management plan using critical path
method for ex; PMBOK, APIC methodology, MS Project tools
etc.
3. Have developed our team project cost management plan
aligning WBS with resources assigned to every task with cost
estimation.
4. Have developed Cost management plan based on Earned
Value Analysis, cash flow techniques.
Conclusion:
During the completion of this semester one course of Masters’ in Business & Project Management I have been
through many challenges as well as opportunities that has helped me to be equipped with higher horizon n pool
of knowledge and project management skills.
This course has given me fundamental knowledge of project management concepts such as understanding
complete project life cycle starting from initiation until closure.
However I still have a lot to learn as a professional Project manager to utilize my skills as a working professional
in industry.
The following graphs below shows my learning curve for all three Project Fundamentals Management modules
which are SBM 1101, 1102 and 1201:
SBM 1101
Understanding projects
& programs
Target Self Peer
Activity 1 100 33 33
Activity 2 85 53 47
Activity 3 90 60 72
Managing strategic
context
Target Self Peer
Activity 1 98 33 33
Activity 2 80 55 48
Activity 3 85 55 65

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Managing governance
and decision making
Target Self Peer
Activity 1 100 33 33
Activity 2 85 55 47
Activity 3 80 50 64
Systems’ integration Target Self Peer
Activity 1 80 33 33
Activity 2 80 60 52
Activity 3 85 60 55
SBM 1101 87 48 48
SBM 1102
Project Human Resource
Management
Target Self Peer
Activity 1 80 33 33
Activity 2 80 50 41
Activity 3 85 50 51
Project Communication
Management
Target Self Peer
Activity 1 85 27 33
Activity 2 80 45 43
Activity 3 85 50 51
Project Integration
Management
Target Self Peer
Activity 1 80 27 33
Activity 2 80 45 45
Activity 3 85 50 51
SBM 1102 82 42 42
SBM 1201
Project scope
management
Target Self Peer
Activity 1 85 20 40
Activity 2 80 45 47
Activity 3 85 33 49
Project Time
Management
Target Self Peer
Activity 1 80 27 40
Activity 2 80 55 43
Activity 3 85 33 49

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Project Cost
Management
Target Self Peer
Activity 1 85 27 40
Activity 2 80 45 43
Activity 3 85 55 56
SBM 1201 83 38 45
Last but not the least I would like to thank all my tutors especially Mr. Andre Smit, Mr. John Woollet, Mr. Ted
Tooher and ofcourse Mr. Mohammed Mojtahedi for their enormous support & guidance as without that It
would have been impossible to achieve such knowledge and skills.
Also I would like to thank all my friends and team members including Team F & G who has been highly
supportive throughout my course journey so far.
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SBM 1101 SBM 1102 SBM 1201
SELF REFLECTIVE LEARNING SUMMARYTarget Self rating

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6. Appendix I Personal Goals (L&D)
To define my personal goals I have fragmented them into short term (less than a year), medium term (between
1- 2 years) and long term goals (post 2 years).
As building career in Sydney, has been a new career path that I am carving with Project Management course as a
foundation to my International career.
Short Term Goal (less than a year):
 To be able to score high distinction in all subjects in Project Management course
 Improve on my Socio cultural skills
 To be able to bring financial balance to survive in Australia.
 To be the top ranker in college
 To be appointed as an Academic representative of Asia Pacific College.
Medium Term Goal (between 1-2 years):
 Learn & deliver my Project Management skills learnt during this course
 Try to find a job as a professional Project Manager.
 Build strong relationship between industry experts and Asia Pacific International College
 Bring stability to my financial status & save for future.
Long Term Goal (post 2 years):
 Work as a Sr. Project Manager with a reputed organization
 Build a rapport in industry as a professional
 Open an old age home with innovative schemes for senior citizens
 Bring family from India here in Australia
 Build own house in Canberra.

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7. Appendix II Personal SWOT Analysis (LPD)
SWOT ANALYSIS:
STRENGTHS
 Self-Motivated
 Determined
 Confident
 Quick Learner
 Time Management
 Organized
 Professional Experienced
WEAKNESS
 Lack of Creativity
 Highly Competitive
 Restless
 Emotional Stability
 Multitasking
OPPORTUNITIES
 Multitasking
 Multicultural Exposure
 Global learning
 Project management Skills
 Practical exposure to tools
THREATS
 Home sickness
 Financial management
 Time Management between Work &
Study
 Highly Competitive environment

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8. Appendix III Progress against Plan (L&D)
Duration Goals
July
2015-Sep
2015
Oct
2015-
Dec 2015
3rd
Semester
(2016)
4th
Semester
(2016)
2017-
2018
2018-
2019
Short Term
Goal (less
than a
year):
To be able to score
high distinction in all
subjects in Project
Management course
Improve on my
Socio cultural skills
To be able to bring
financial balance to
survive in Australia.
To be the top ranker
in college
To be appointed as
an Academic
representative of
Asia Pacific College.
Medium
Term Goal
(between 1-2
years):
Learn & deliver my
Project
Management skills
learnt during this
course
Try to find a job as a
professional Project
Manager.
Build strong
relationship
between industry
experts and Asia
Pacific International
College
Bring stability to my
financial status &
save for future.
Long Term
Goal (post 2
years):
Work as a Sr. Project
Manager with a

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reputed
organization
Build a rapport in
industry as a
professional
Open an old age
home with
innovative schemes
for senior citizens
Bring family from
India here in
Australia
Build own house in
Canberra.
Directory to Evidence:
SOCIO CULTURAL SKILLS:
COMMUNICATION PLAN (Team F & G):

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Leadership Skills:
English Skills (IELTS Test Score):
IELTS Band 7 scorer:

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Management Skills & Experience:
At HCl as a aTeam Leader, letter of appreciation from Stratwegy Head:

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS SKILLS:
Project Work & Contribution:

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Team Member Name Responsibilities
Shalini Singh Cost Management plan, Integration management for STC of
Project, KPI Mitigation & Health Check
Rene Pavageau Project Business case management Plan, Marketing
Research, Human Resource Cost management plan
Meenu Mamak Project Context, requirements Challenges, Business
Strategy & objectives
Premjeet Kumar Project Governance, Organizational Chart, HRM,
Communication Management

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