ORGANISATION, MANAGEMENT AND DELIVERY 1 Seminar 2 – Discussing and Understanding Project Management *and learning about effective reading, note taking & building presentation skills Your reading • In pairs/groups have a discussion – what did you read? – What is Project Management? – What is a Project? – How do you define project management? – How do you define a project? – Did you take notes whilst reading? – How did you take the notes? What is a project? Project – example #1 Project – example #2 Click the picture to play a timelapse video of Wembley stadium: from Football to Boxing Project specifications Task: Improve these objectives • The product will be delivered soon. • Several •I items will be produced on time. will read for this module. • All crimes will be solved by the end of the year. Elements to improve within the objectives • The product will be delivered soon. S: which product? – T: soon? – M? • Several items will be produced on time. S: how many items of what? – T: on time? – M? •I will read for this module. S: Read what for which module? T? – M? • All crimes will be solved by the end of the year. A? – S: what area? – R? SMART objectives Write at least one SMART objective to achieve the overall aim of achieving 60% or higher mark for this module. Examples: • I will engage actively with all lectures and attend all seminars having completed requested tasks. • Every week during semester 1 I will read a minimum of 2 textbook chapters for this module. • 5 weeks prior to report submission date I will begin work on my report by structuring the text and make organised notes from the reading of academic project management texts. Task • In groups of 3-4 students produces 5mins PowerPoint Presentation on the following task • Pick an organisation/company from your sector • Produce several slides with the following information on them – What does the company do? – What products and services does the organisation/company offer? – Find a few examples of projects that the company has completed or is working on – you can include videos, links to websites and images – Find some financial information on the company by visiting the database ‘FAME’ on Library Gateway - Reading this week Lock (2014) Project Management, chapter 2. Defining the Project Task. Each seminar is timetabled as 2 hours, but the tutors will be running the session for 90 minutes and then you will be given a task to do yourselves. You can either stay in the classroom and complete the task or leave and complete it in your own time