The Wow Project (Pm)

Jill Walker discusses in her essay A Network of Quests in World of Warcraft typical questlines and why they are both helpful and problematic towards gameplay.

Babe Ruth said, "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." A dedicated, determined worker and leader is what brings projects to completion. The quality, first-class work elevates projects. This comes from knowledgeable people who understand clients and their vision while using their own experience and creativity to make dreams come true.

Rather than allowing a massive reduction of working hours to free the world’s population to pursue their own projects, pleasures, visions, and ideas, we have seen the ballooning not even so much of the “service” sector as of the administrative sector, up to and including the creation of whole new industries like financial services or telemarketing, or the unprecedented expansion of sectors like corporate law, academic and health administration, human resources, and public relations.

In the current business environment, the demand for project managers is ever growing. In short, project management is a provisional project constrained by time, cost and scope (A guide to the project management body of knowledge, 2013). Between the immense organization, optimization, and communication assets skilled project management brings to a project, it is easy to see why project management is a booming field of study. Furthermore, project management can be both financially and personally rewarding when long term milestones and goals come to fruition.

Successful organizations are always looking for ways to improve process and procedures, increase revenues and profits, while staying relevant in today’s business world. Strong leadership is the backbone of any organization and is the catalyst for driving a culture of innovation and change. Organizations looking to make small or large-scale changes typically do so through the implementation of work projects. Projects are collaborative efforts carefully planned and designed to achieve a specific goal. According to Young (2010), “projects take careful planning, and a successful project is one that is done on time and within budget” (p.344). Project management is the activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, while monitoring procedures and timelines, and usually has an assigned project manager (PM). Organizations such as Apple are known to have many projects in motion at any given time. This many projects happening simultaneously can be extremely complex, expensive, and taxing on resources, but somehow Apple has managed to implement project after project with huge success.

Soon after pursuing my undergraduate in SASTRA University, I had landed a job at TATA Consultancy Services (TCS), an IT company which ranks among the ‘Big 4’ most valuable IT services brand worldwide. Initially, my first thought was I’d be working in a cubicle programing data in a computer, and barely talking to my coworkers. But I was wrong. To my pleasant surprise, none of my predictions came true. TCS was a modern, fast-paced service company providing services in different domain to top brands and have a vast knowledge on technology right from mainframe to cloud computing. As a software developer I started working for a British based Insurance firm (Scottish Widows).

Executive Summary Project management is the science of planning, organizing, executing, and managing the resources needed to achieve a specific goal. Effective project managers (PM) strategically facilitate the entire project management process to ensure the project’s success. To do this the PM must adequately meet the specific requirements (i.e., time, scope, quality, and cost) set forth by the project and its stakeholders. It is theorized that PM must possess a set of core competencies in order to successfully manage a project. Those competencies are development of project management knowledge areas, application of appropriate project management tools and techniques, understanding of the project

This past summer I interned at Community Empowerment Solutions where I worked as a consultant for entrepreneurs in Ecuador. During this internship, I managed a team of interns solving problems facing entrepreneurs which included: looking for funding, improving customer support, and refining marketing campaigns. I lead my team to create efficient solutions to these problems while taking into consideration obstacles like limited internet connection, illiteracy, low-income, cultural and language barriers. Inspired by the impact students could make in Latin America, a group of interns and I formed Pakta Consulting; a pro-bon consulting group that seeks to match college students to Latin American entrepreneurs. In Pakta, I also manage a team of consultants to solve problems that entrepreneurs bring to us. In conjunction with this, I serve as Vice President where I manage Pakta’s growth, overlook other teams, and recruit both consultants and clients. These experiences have prepared me for an internship with McKinsey where I hope to continue to grow and

|Learning Team Instructions |Select a fun, real-life project to collaboratively plan using project management principles. | | |

Project management provides a strong foundation for developing the attributes needed to pursue high-level leadership roles, analytical positions, and many other areas within the business environment.

This paper includes an outline of a presentation, command terms and definitions, examples of graphs and a Work Breakdown Schedule (WBS) on project management, and presented to the class at Crescent View High School. The focus will be on how to plan, schedule, monitor, and report on projects. Also included are the project management methodologies, tools and techniques used. The discussion to the class will begin with an opening statement that provides an overview of project management, terms and definitions, and an example of buying a house utilizing project management to manage activities.

Project management is an essential part of businesses and industries in order to advance ahead and add value to products. Project management enables companies to innovate, plan strategically, and for the economy to progress. The important parts of projects are often values such as team working, planning, innovation, time and budget management, and leadership. In the modern society, some projects can be pharmaceuticals (inventing new drugs), IT solutions (new technologies), energy and environment (other sources of energy such as solar), and military (new weapons and machines). The similarities are such that these projects are undertaken to improve the lives of

Managing a project is no easy task. A project is a series of tasks or jobs that are related to each other and directed toward a common goal or output. Projects usually require a significant time commitment, and tend to be handled by groups of workers. The employees at Craft Construction, a small business that deals with complete remodeling and some small commercial buildings, generally divide into groups of two or three workers per project. The number of employees assigned to a job usually depends on the size of the project. For each project, a project manager and a lead carpenter are assigned to handle most of the work. Project scheduling is different for every job. Smaller jobs require less planning because there is

Project management is not only useful in the working environment, but it could also become great skills that can be used for all life projects that we do through out our life.

Task 1 of this unit will analyse an understanding for project management principles. This will define the principles and background for project management and appraising the viability the projects developing the success or failure criteria. We will further explain the principles behind the project management systems and methods. Finally, the key elements will be explained that is necessary to engage in terminating the projects and conducting post-project appraisals.