Project plan is the approved blue print for project execution and and project control. During project planning, the project scope is defined and described with greater specificity as more information about the project is know. Existing risks, assumptions, and constrains are analyzed for completeness and added or updated as necessary. The define scope process is highly iterative, as we are learning more and more about the project, things are getting more clear to us. We utilized expert analysis approach to understand the scope of the project and created work breakdown structure to identify all the tasks associated with this project. We are utilizing a online hosted tool "Asana" to record and maintain our project plan.
I primarily worked on scope, budget, and procurement sections of the project plan. Scope is always evolving with our deeper understanding of the project. Change management plan is helping us to record any approved changes. Budget part is calculated more for educational and learning experience. Client has all the software and hardware resources, and our project team is a virtual team with personal software and hardware resources. Finally, this project hardly requires any procurement plan due to in-house development of instructional application. We worked as a team to develop project plan, this helped us to learn and apply our knowledge in virtual team work environment. Our Project manager provided valuable insight and guidance through fruitful discussions and meaningful suggestions. At the end of the day, this was a great collaborative effort in which our client also played a vital role by providing reliable documentation and by engaging meaningful discussion through conference call and electronic communications.
I primarily worked on scope, budget, and procurement sections of the project plan. Scope is always evolving with our deeper understanding of the project. Change management plan is helping us to record any approved changes. Budget part is calculated more for educational and learning experience. Client has all the software and hardware resources, and our project team is a virtual team with personal software and hardware resources. Finally, this project hardly requires any procurement plan due to in-house development of instructional application. We worked as a team to develop project plan, this helped us to learn and apply our knowledge in virtual team work environment. Our Project manager provided valuable insight and guidance through fruitful discussions and meaningful suggestions. At the end of the day, this was a great collaborative effort in which our client also played a vital role by providing reliable documentation and by engaging meaningful discussion through conference call and electronic communications.
Moving forward, project plan is helping us to stay on track and within budget. It is also helping us to allocate our time and resources according to the plan to achieve our deliverable on time along with specified quality. This process also helped me to learn and excel in collaborative working environment to construct collaborative new knowledge through inquiry of learning. This is always fascinating to learn the internal prospective of the client and its interpretation based on the organizational culture and context.
Our project manager did a great job in presenting our project plan using a screencast. Though we all worked on the project plan development process, Jennifer had a sound understanding of the whole project plan. This a great approach to learn about whole by working on a part. Sharing ideas through discussion enhances confidence in the process of constructing new knowledge. I plan to apply this approach in any opportunity I can avail.
Asking questions and learning from the peers and Dr. Weaver is a unique and enlightening experience. This process is continuously helping me to think hard and understand new project management and instructional design concepts with much deeper understanding with a new and different prospective. Finally, watching Dr. Weaver’s screencast provides a clear guideline on how to deal with so many moving parts without getting overwhelmed. I would like to apply the techniques I am learning from Dr. Weaver to utilize in my future teaching profession.
Learning project management process and learning how to work successfully in team set up are two 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 of these ends slowly but steadily! Finally, learning is a continuous journey, not the destination!
My task list for week three:
Task
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Percent Complete
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Time
Spent in hrs |
Weekly Group Meeting
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100%
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1
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Contribute to the discussion in G+
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100%
|
2
|
Develop Project Plan
|
100%
|
3
|
Discussion and feedback on project plan
|
100%
|
1
|
Asana to add and update project tasks/sub-tasks
|
100%
|
1
|
Keep up with Dr. Weaver's post and screencasts, taking surveys
|
100%
|
.5
|
Discussion on Content Analysis Report
|
100%
|
1
|
Reading on Develop Project plan
|
100%
|
2
|
Posted 15/5s for my blog
|
100%
|
.5
|
Other reading related to Treatment Report
|
25%
|
1.0
|
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