Unit 1
discussion
Part 1: Introduce yourself to your fellow students and
instructor. Tell us a little about yourself. Where are you from? What is your
major? What is your career? Include a fun fact about yourself as well.
Part 2: In Units VII and VIII of this course, you will
submit a comprehensive project plan and a PowerPoint presentation (see the
details in the syllabus). In this unit, start thinking about your topic for your
project plan. For this discussion board post, describe your topic ideas for
your final project and presentation. Discuss if this is a personal project, a
workplace project, or a civic project. Examples of potential projects might be
a construction project at your home, the planning of a wedding or other
celebration, or any other personal endeavor that requires multiple steps. It
can be a project you are currently working on or one that you would like to
take on in the future. Describe your ideas for your project plan. It is
acceptable to have multiple ideas at this point.
Unit 2
discussion
Review the case analysis, “Incidents For Discussion:
Pritchard Soap Co.” on pages 138-139 of your textbook, which illustrates
the problems that can arise when project managers are not good communicators.
Discuss your own strengths and weaknesses as a communicator, and describe how
you will capitalize on your strengths and mitigate your weaknesses when leading
a project team. Consider how you will apply project management communication
strategies to your final project due in Units VII and VIII.
Unit 3
discussion
Your final project for this course is due in Unit VII (final
project plan) and Unit VIII (presentation). For this discussion board post,
discuss your progress on your project plan. What progress have you made on the
required elements for the project plan (i.e., project overview, project mission
statement and scope statement, project schedule and control, project management
structure and budget, work breakdown structure, risk management process,
project communication, project closure)? What stumbling blocks are you running
into? What questions do you have for your instructor on the final project plan?
Unit 4
discussion
Why is it important to reduce risk in a project? Discuss
your thoughts on how the financial aspects of a project are interrelated to
risk assessment. How are you planning to employ risk planning into your final
project for this course?
Unit 5
discussion
Discuss how you might utilize some of the project management
scheduling tools discussed in this unit in your final project. Discuss the
progress you are making on your project (due in Unit VII) and presentation (due
in Unit VIII). What resources have you found most useful when preparing your
project?
Unit 6 discussion
n page 386 of your textbook (at the end of chapter 9 under
Reading: Let the games begin), review the Project Management in Practice. This
explains how the Olympic Games are scheduled using project management software.
Think about some of the extra schedule conflicts beyond changes in weather that
might occur at the Olympics dealing with global participants and guests to the
event. Bring to the discussion details of issues that past Olympic Games have
had to overcome. How might scheduling concepts learned during this course
minimize some of these conflicts?
Unit 7
discussion
Reflect on this unit’s reading, and think about the
evaluation of a project being a means of control. Discuss how you incorporated
the concepts of evaluation and control into your final project plan.
Unit 8
discussion
Think about topics learned during this course. What topic or
assignment did you find most interesting? What topic or assignment did you find
most challenging? How might you apply some of the project management concepts
we studied in this course to both your professional and personal life? What suggestions can you offer for
improvement of this course for future students? Please be honest, your feedback
helps us improve our courses (and will not affect your grade, I promise!)
