Centennial College
Graduate Certificate Program
Project Management
International Project Management & Professional Responsibility
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Prof. Bob Xourafas

Reflective Journal

Submitted by:
Rafael Rodrigues #300849295

This reflective journal is divided in four parts, one part for each chapter. It has the goal of a reflection of what we have learned so far and also to review all contend covered until the chapter 4.

Chapter 1 –Introduct ion
The class started talking about the definition of international project. Before, I used to believe that the only difference between traditional and international projects was the size of them and they were not that different. I mean, both can be on multiple locations, could have different entities and business units, so I did not know the real difference and the complexity of them.
When it was talked about the PES analyze I started to recognize the huge difference between
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them. Although traditional projects can be in different localizations they are at the same country that has the same economic.
The most enjoyable part of this chapter is the standard methods used on projects. With this standardization is possible to have the same quality and “ language” documents regardless of of the localization and then we have examplesof international projects.
Another part that really called my attention was the part of communication. As in the example of the roads of Roma, the communication process showed is essential to international projects.
The communications are the road of information, without it communication international projects are nearly possible to be executed.
The following part of the class was about the sensibility that the manager needs to have in order to have a succeed project. He or she should pay attention in details such as:
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Local culture (You have to adapt to