Mark Price PerryBusiness Driven PMO Evangelist| BOT InternationalOrlando, Fl, United States
From an early age, our schools teach our children their ABCs, they teach them how to add and subtract, and at each and every grade level these basic fundamentals are built upon. And though our children have, in essence, one project after another to do from homework to special assignments, nowhere in the curriculum is project management to be found. As a result, numerous bad habits related to "getting things done on time" are formed and very few good habits are developed. As project management is clearly a life skill, might not learning just a bit about project management (simplified of course) from the earliest of grades possible help school children with their education? Or do we think the answer is to let an increasingly ADD-prone generation make their way with iPad-like devices, mobile phones or I should say texting-devices that have the ability to make a telephone call, and Facebook accounts? What if, from 1st grade on, school children learned how to organize their work into projects and how to manage those projects reasonably well? I would contend that many children would be well served by learning and developing this knowledge and skill - and that many parents would have less of their kid's homework to do as well. What do you think..? Saving Changes...
