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Academia vs. PM Reality
A project management instructor shares why he uses the scenario of a Business Intelligence system implementation in order to go beyond the textbooks and explore the many ways that real-world projects get messy — and how solid project management practices can help sort it out.
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Teaching college courses always has challenges. There is the ongoing issue of how to connect with the students, as well as how to best present materials that reflect real-life scenarios. In academic situations, textbooks often oversimplify the complexities involved in trying to achieve business solutions. This can readily be witnessed when teaching a class on project management or systems analysis where vendors, clients and IT professionals all tend to work hand-in-hand to achieve the ultimate solution for an organization and in the end everyone lives happily ever after.
Anyone who has ever lived through a complicated system implementation knows that unforeseen problems will arise and personalities will clash. I have found that the steps involved in developing Business Intelligence (BI) solutions is an effective way of …
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