A personal project
experience that I have had was in my under-grad. I was taken a geography course
and part of the course was to do a group project where we had to choose a
chapter from the course texts book. As a group we choose a chapter from the
book and then each group member choose the section that they were going to
cover in a power point presentation. One of the groups did not participate in
any of group meeting and did not provide a power-point for the presentation. The
way the stakeholders dealt with the absent group member was to continue to
communicate with the member and find and a time and day that would be best for
the group member. This approach still did not work, so the group leader decided
that we all would take additional section from the missing group member so that
we could turn in the project and present the project to the class. The project
scope creep issue that occurred was monitoring the scope which states that
since the scope creep is a major cause of cost and time overrun, the project
manager must control changes to the project charter and project scope by
following the change management and the plan that was created during the project
phase ( Lynch and Roecker 2007). Looking back at the experience now there are
many things that could have been done different such as choosing group member
that were accountable and that were willing to do their part of the project. As
the project manager I would make sure that all of the group members communicate
during the project phase and also setup a time to meet to go over the progress
of the project. I would make sure that everyone in the group was on the same
page when we present the project so that the group will receive a positive
grade.
As an instructional designer
making sure that I am able to provide step-by-step instructions to students so
that they clear on the expectations of the course. To also make sure that I am
able to guide the students with videos from instructors that have experience
field, assignments and project that will help the learners to grow in their
perspective fields, and providing discussion questions that will help them
learn from the instructor and classmates.
Lynch, M. M., & Roecker, J. (2007). Project managing e-learning: A handbook for successful design, delivery, and management.
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