Analysis report is the corner stone for any successful instructional development. Knowing the project goal and instructional goals are instrumental in designing any instructional system. Finally, we had the meeting with the client and all project team members. This helped us to understand the scope of the project in a much better way.
Project charter is completed and reviewed by the project sponsor ; final signoff will come from the client. Project team agreed to utilize Asana, one of the best cloud-based project management tool, to capture our detail tasks and scheduling. The idea of work breakdown structure is making sense as we are trying to get a complete list of deliverables and associated tasks. Reading chapter 2, chapter 5, and chapter 3 provided pedagogical framework to think about goal statement and context analysis. Finally, group discussions are essential in forming a single path to move forward with the project. Working on communication plan is forcing us to think and identify all communication channels, stakeholders, and means and frequency of communication with different involved parties.
Asking questions and learning from the peers and Dr. Weaver is a unique and enlightening experience. Every one was very involved in finalizing the project charter. Conference call with the client was also very instrumental for ensuring every one is on the same page. Finally, watching Dr. Weaver’s screencast provided a clear guideline on how to deal with so many moving parts without getting overwhelmed.
I am working as the lead developer and lead evaluator for this project. Currently, we are primarily focusing on project planning, and analysis report. This process is helping me to be a better communicator and flexible team member. This is also helping us to work under extreme time constrain and within thin resources. Our clients are well trained in designing and delivering training materials for diverse group of their employees. They shared some of their organizational documents through share point file server. I plan to master some of their documentation and delivery techniques to utilize in future e-course development projects at my current job.
In team format, continuous communication is essential to avoid misunderstanding and duplication of effort. Asking right and timely question is another top priority. My group is doing a wonderful job through Google community to always stay ahead of assigned tasks. Though I am active in the community, due to time constrain, I failed to visit the Google community more frequently. I would love to post and initiate more discussion if I can manage more time!
Learning project management process, instructional development process, client interactions and expectations management besides learning how to work successfully in team set up are some of the essential skill sets for any profession. To master these skill set one needs both pedagogical backbone and practical experiences. I am seeing progress from both these ends slowly but steadily!
My task list for week three:
Task
|
Percent
Complete
|
Time
Spent in hrs |
Weekly Group Meeting with the
client
|
100%
|
1
|
Weekly Group Meeting with team
members
|
100%
|
1.5
|
Contribute to the discussion in G+
|
100%
|
.5
|
Worked on project charter
|
100%
|
1
|
Identify a cloud-based project
management tool for the group: Asana, Tom planner, etc.
|
100%
|
2
|
Keep up with Dr. Weaver's post and
screencasts
|
100%
|
1
|
Read chapters 4, 6, & 7
in Dick, Carey, and Carey Textbook.
|
100%
|
2
|
Watching content analysis
presentation and Objective and Assessment review
|
100%
|
1
|
Read Project Management eLearning chapters
3,4,5 and 7,8
|
100%
|
2
|
Started looking into Analysis
report
|
40%
|
1.0
|
Posted 15/5s for my blog
|
100%
|
.5
|
Worked on a shared Google doc,
with the team members, to capture all our questions for Terminix related to
Project Charter and Goal Analysis.
|
100%
|
1.0
|
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