I have learned a lot of things from this program. Below are some significant personal lessons learned through the program:
1.Practicing communication skills
There is no doubt that communication is the key to the success of the project management. As a project manager, you may meet varieties of communication challenges including communicating with the global team or virtual team. Selecting appropriate communication methods or understanding the communication channels are all basic skills that project managers should know. Therefore, project managers should practice their communication skills to ensure the success of the program.
2. Simplifying work procedures
The project managers should analyze the outdated process 's goals. Determine what
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As a result, I can use these skills learned from class to make accurate plan for my future career.
How has this program prepared you to advance within your career? What have been the most significant lessons learned/ insights about project management?
The program provided me the ability to solve practical problems. It is not an exaggeration to say that any problem that has the possibility of practical implementation. In particular, WBS gave me ideas that “translate events into smaller events” can make tasks easy to implement and control. Project managers need to develop this habit no matter in work or daily life. Furthermore, facing practical challenges can cultivate my confidence in facing any difficulties that will happen in my further career.
What is more, the project manger should have a big picture. Raise the heights of looking at the problem When you are working as a project manager. When I am the project manager, I will consider the way of work is: "The project must be XXX". After learning the skills of project management, it will naturally increase the perspective of looking at the problem. With the improvement of your ability and position, the vision of project manger will be broader and
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A good project team. Experienced and skillful team members are really helpful for a project management work.
4. Risk management plan.
How will you do this?
Here are the explain how I will do these work throughout a project.
1. Pre-prepare
2. Hold a kick off meeting. Announce some important project document including project management plan and assign works to project team members.
3. Start to do the project. I will pay attention to communication and the usage of project skills.
4. Be a good time manager. Set a deadline and try best to stick to it. Set deadline a few days before the task absolutely has to be done. This allows for the possibility that other things will get in the way, but also allow for you still to get the task done.
5. Hold weekly meeting to track project process.
6. Monitoring and control.
What is your concentration and how have your non-project management courses contributed to your ability to lead projects?
These aspects will help me better manage my project. (Three other majors)
1. Leadership: build a good relationship with project team. How to lead the project?
2. Communication: communicate with team members and stakeholders
3. Social media: email, chat app, skype, visual
The project manger must have the ability to understand work flow, be a supporter of change, and highly organized. The physician lead
From this class, I have learned to work with other people, including students and adults, as well as leading a team, creating ideas, and problem
This course hasn’t influenced my career plans, but it has enhanced how I manage my projects and interact with colleagues on a daily basis. Furthermore, this class and all of my future classes will really be useful as I retire and become a self-employed government contractor. Reading about companies like Lincoln Electric, and how well they manage their employees and business inspires me to incorporate many of those techniques into my own company vision and mission. I’m using more critical thinking in my day-to-day activities and decision making. Critical thinking forces me to slow down and make better decisions.
Task 1 (P1) Create a poster, for the trainee staff, illustrating the typical phases of a project lifecycle, with a clear explanation of each of the stages. The phases of a project lifecycle include the following: Define and Produce Specification The first part of a project lifecycle is defining what the project will be about this first part is important because if the project wasn’t defined then what will the staff and the project manager be working on as they would have no idea what is required this can be done by asking for the requirements that the client wants for the project if there is one, then after this comes the specifications this means what components are needed for the project or any other things that are needed will vary depending on what the project is about but this will give the manager details on the things needed so that they would be able to get a precise cost on the components needed. Plan and Design Next comes the plan for the project which gives a better idea of what the project will look like and also it might have a rough sketch of not only the design but the components as well it can also have a timeline to give everyone working on the project a time frame when certain parts or things in the project needs to be done, design is also part of this part of the life cycle this
Being a part of The Salvation Army, I greatly appreciate the various welfare services that you provide for the people in need by establishing environment where compassion, respect, excellence, integrity, relevance, cooperation, and celebration are valued. I would be happy to contribute my talents as a store manager with a solid educational background in Business Management and with over four years work experience in a non-profit setting at The Salvation Army. My sales associate role at The Salvation Army has given me the excellent opportunity to learn the overall merchandising, stocking, general production and sales targets procedure at the Salvation Army. Moreover, by being a customer service expert, I am able to identify the needs of diverse people and help them accordingly.
You need to create the project scope; how big the project will be and the deadline, budgeting, etc. You need to breakdown to the goals and milestone into task that would be completed. You need to identify constraints that restrict not just the project as a whole but the tasks themselves. You need to think of how many people should work on one task and if one task is related to another. 6.
Question 1: What are the project’s risks? Answer 1: As the Hubble project requires specific expertise in this project, new contract with CGI will led them to certain risks, are as follows: 1. As the client (The Financials) and the service provider (CGI) are not following the same goals, it is difficult to pin point the exact difficulty and satisfy ever changing request from the client’s side might prove this project insuperable. As CGI always worked on the prerequisite needs of the projects, this project will be difficult to handle as the needs are very vague and not well defined.
PMPG 5501 Team Assignment Assignment #: 1 Date Submitted: Friday Jan 16 2015 Team #6 Team Leader: Pratik Patel Team Members (full names): Nimish Thakur Dilip Bhatija Introduction The purpose of this assignment is to distinguish clearly between leaders and managers. We have answered the following questions in this assignment.
To begin the process, you should develop a high level of self efficacy, not just knowledge. The next step is to have regular targeted feedback on implementation fidelity. Another key piece is to have a goal orientated exit strategy. She emphasized how many plans don’t have an exit strategy and they did not complete the project to their full potential. Another key piece is to maintain a support plan.
Budget for future contingencies. 8. Employ experts to review the strategy and work plan. 9. Prepare for completion, other legal formalities, and appraisals.
In this course I have been assigned 4 major projects and 4 mini projects. The four major projects are the memo assignment, the resume and application letter project, the feasibility report, and the instructions project. Of these four major projects
We believe that the credibility and reputation of the project management as a profession are forged on the basis collective conduct of each professional. As practitioners of project management, we are committed to act correctly and honorably. Us set a high level of demand, we aspire to achieve in all aspects of our lives: at work, in the home and the service of our profession. We believe we can enhance our profession, both individually and collectively, by taking. This Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
This extra professional accomplishment would give me extra edge to attract major employers. This MSc course at University of Bedfordshire is accredited by the Association of Project Management and also reflects areas of knowledge specified by the Project Management Institute. These features of the course at this university influenced my choice of university hugely. The university is an award winning institution and was presented with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise ‘International Trade 2011’. Beds have outstanding reputation for teaching – were awarded top marks – a 'confidence' rating – in most recent QAA audit.
Reflective Journal Student Name: Talita Silva Lima Programme: Higher Diploma in Science – Cloud Computing Month: July 1. Project Management In this section I will explain in detail my project management through a Gantt Chart and what I have done since my last journal until now, how my time management is going in order to delivery this project before the deadline and some of my achievements.
At the same time, as a Scrum Master(SM), a project manager is also responsible for ensuring the team obeys to its processes, ensuring resolution/escalation of inadequate or ill-defined user stories, Product Owner accountability and removing barriers and at the same time, shielding the team from external interference. Different types of project managers will be required by different firms, but some of skills are inborn. When it comes down to it, Leadership [3] assumes to be the most important inherent skill of a project manager. The project manager is highly responsible for the project's success or failure of a project. It may be a burden for him/her, but it is essential for this wisdom of possession to occur in order for the project to have a right direction.