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
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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