This course has helped to evaluate my current skills and try to improve the most important to become a great project manager and applied them to my life. From taking this class, I have learned to use Microsoft Project and understand better different tools that every project manager has to use to be more efficient. I also learn about planning and any contingency and the most important create good communication with the people around and management risks.
The Project management provides great life skills and I would like to improve my weakness and keep working with my strengths.
My strengths in this class is my ability to set goals and be disciplined enough to reach those goals by the deadline. This class forced me to become more organized and also plan ahead. There are many aspects of planning used in project management that we can use in other areas of our life. Think about planning a vacation. There are many jobs that needed to be completed before the vacation day. You need to decide where do you want to go, how much is your budget, etc. To keep yourself from getting overwhelmed you can use your project management planning skills by building a schedule, define the team that will be helping plan the vacation, create a cost management plan, etc.
Assumptions.- We have all been in a situation where we made assumptions about a situation, but didn’t validate those assumptions so the outcome we had in mind was altered. If we start realizing while we are planning or working on a task that assumptions are being made during the process, then we can begin validating the assumptions so they do not turn into a risk.
For example in a vacation, if you are going on a vacation and assume that you don’t need to pack certain toiletries or devices because the hotel will have them you could be in for an unpleasant surprise. In this example, you could either pack these items just