Project Management: What I Learned

Before I started my classes at Southwestern, I thought I had a good grasp on leadership and managing teams in a quality environment. However, I believe Southwestern has taken that knowledge I had and built upon it in magnificent ways. The Business Quality Management degree relates to my primary Air Force specialty. Going back to college after 10 years scared me. However, it was the best decision I could have made. I am now equipped with knowledge and skills necessary to be an adaptable quality

Construction management or construction project management (CPM) is the overall planning, coordination, and control of a project from beginning to completion. Throughout this semester I learned many various information on construction management, from the bid package process to scheduling a projects. Also learned the various contracts and legal structure of a construction company. Overall this semester I learned the overall knowledge of construction management. The first thing we learned was the bid

Lessons Learned As a transfer student, I only had to take three core courses to finish my Bachelor degree in Information technology because my other courses from my previous school supplemented the other core courses. But I did learn a lot from the three core courses that did I take at Campbell University were (ITS-345) Database Management , (ITS-410) System Analysis Design & Dev, and (ITS-410) Networking & Telecommunication. In taking these courses, I felt these courses taught me relevant concepts

course, I thought that in order to manage a project you need to be a project manager. However, this course changed my perspective on project management. As I continue to read the book, I realized that I actually manage many projects, and project management is not only limited to organizations. Throughout our lives, we manage many projects from planning a wedding to building a house, some of those projects may take few days and some may take years to complete. In addition, I also learned that there

introduced himself and provided an introduction to the meaning of projects in which case it is a temporary endeavor, a specific outcome, is unique and has high risk. Furthermore, there are reasons behind performing projects which is accomplishing the mission, the objectives, the goals and the activities. In addition, the project DNA consists of a dynamic plan, high risk, exec support, control change and cancelable. As for the project management formality, the more complex it is, the more risk there is in

about a project failure due to inefficient human resource management planning. This paper begins with a brief background of the case followed by identifying the issues needing attention. There will be a discussion on who was responsible for the failure and whether or not the appropriate direction was justified. There will be a brief summary of what I felt would be a better plan followed by any lessons learned I gained from this case study. Background Desi Solutions, a project management consulting

has taken me to complete the IT Management course of study at Webster University I have learned that there are additional tasks that I was previously unaware of in regard to the management of Information Technology. Although I work in the IT field, my adult education was anchored in the Psychology field where the use of IT assets is limited at best. Learning the importance and relevance of organizational behavior, finance, communication systems, project management, procurement, systems analysis,

Lesson learned 3: Inability to identify exact requirements and inability to control scope change Scope management begins at the beginning of a project. In the planning process group, two types of “Scope” need to be carefully defined: product scope and project scope. The product scope here would be the features and functions requirements of the e-Borders system. The project scope here should be how the work would be done including the deadline for the project completion. A scope baseline

What comes to mind when you hear the word leader? Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy? According to Webster's Dictionary, a leader is "one who leads." After participating in the Leadership Program, I have learned that a leader is hard to summarize.   I entered the Leadership Program with a narrow mind. I thought that I knew the expectations of leadership along with everything that leadership entails. After all, how difficult could it be to persuade others to see your personal opinion

Related Factors that Contribute Most to Project Success Projects are often deemed unsuccessful because many project managers do not have the training or experience to properly manage a project (Kwak, & Anbari, 2009). As businesses realized this, they started to research the various reasons for project failures; however, in many cases the people managing the projects were eliminated from the research. In the 1990s, certain industries noticed that many project managers needed to be properly trained