1. Objective of project report:

The foremost objective of this project report is to recollect all the learnings, experience, tools

approach learnt in project management training. In this I am going to interface all the learning in

to my project at Saudi Aramco which was to “Identify and deploy the most suitable digital

learning platform”. This will help me to revise the project and give me the virtual experience to get

to know the gaps and the bridge the gap by using the PMA learning. The report will help me to

get the IPMA Level- C certification in terms of application of Project Management elements

learned.

In this project my role as a Project Manager I have learnt many things and there are positive and

there some learning experiences too.

Positive Experience of the Project:

▪  Learnt to do proper Stakeholder Analysis

▪  Understand the importance of Communication Plan

▪  Completed the project with in time

Constructive Learning Experiences of the Project:

▪  Risk Management – In the hindsight, some of the risks should have been identified

better by involving the stakeholders

▪  Proposal got changed many times and it led to delay

1.1. Objective of project:

The objective of the project was to “Identify and deploy the most suitable digital learning

platform across Saudi Aramco”, which will help the Global Learning & Performance,

Seagate fulfill the learning vision of the organization.

2. Structure of the project report

(This Project report prepared based on the guidelines from IPMA)

2.1 Project Characteristics:

This project was need of the day for Saudi Aramco to facilitate the need to facilitate the

need of all the employees to stay updated in the rapidly changing technological environment and

develop the new capabilities to grow the business. The Global Learning & Performance team at

Seagate owns the primary responsibility of facilitating all the learning across all business and

functional groups. In the last decade or so, the number of technological changes that have flooded

the technology industry in general and storage industry in particular, made the organization realize

that fulfilling all the training requirements from one centralized team is going to be very difficult.

Even the recent advancements in the learning space has supported the learning pedagogy which

keeps the learner in the center and ensures that the ownership of learning stays with the learner

rather than the organization. The need to identify the right digital content provider to meet both

the relevant quality and scale as well as devising a framework to enable the learners to use this

platform and take up the ownership of their own learning, was long felt.

This enablement will place Seagate at the forefront of the list of storage space providers with the

most reliable and innovative products globally. This would also save the cost incurred on external

consultation and certification provided by learning vendor partners.

2.2 Project Stakeholders (Interested Parties)

In this project there 9 main stakeholders, we had a number of one to one and group discussions

with all the stakeholders about the project and get their views, and there are Stakeholders who

were “Neutral” & “Supportive” and no stakeholders were “Resistant”

IP – 1 – Global Learning & Performance, Global Team – includes the Project Manager (Me)

IP – 2 – Human Resource Business Partners, Global Team, Saudi Aramco

IP – 3 – IT Team, Saudi Aramco

IP – 4 – Finance Team, Saudi Aramco

IP – 5 – Legal and Contracting Team, Saudi Aramco

IP – 6 – SMEs from identified business groups to validate the content

IP – 7 – Global Learning Content Provider – LinkedIn Learning (Identified through RFP process)

IP – 8 – Senior Leadership, CLO reporting to the Chairman & CEO – Sponsor

IP – 9 – All the learners, employees of Saudi Aramco – End User

During the project kick of some of the stakeholders were at UNAWARE level and we needed  them to reach the destination of Supportive or Leading.

