Bradley PallisterOperations Director, Programme Delivery, Career Readiness Campus Lead| Innovolo Product Development & Design ServicesCarclaze, Pl25 3ah, United Kingdom
Hi all,
I am part of the career readiness team for a local sixth form college, and we have a Careers Day to plan in for the next few months. We had the idea of getting the students to project manage the whole event to give them some real life experience in the field.
I would be looking to mentor them during this project, but I'd love to hear some tips / ideas from you great people on this? Saving Changes...
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Jorge LamadridPMP, PMI-ACP, PMI-PBA , Peruvian-Spanish-Mexican| architectLima, Peru
Hi Bradley,
Before initiating the project (p.charter, stakeholders id.) I would suggest you first work on these:
1) understanding of the business problem or opportunity;
2) preparation of requirements traceability, change management, document control,
and acceptance criteria;
3) elicitation, analysis, decomposition, acceptance, approval, specification, and validation of the requirements;
4) communication of the requirements status to stakeholders;
5) obtaining stakeholder sign-off on the developed solution using decision-making
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Eric SimmsSenior Program ManagerBaltimore, Maryland, United States
You might want to divide Careers Day into a program instead of a single project. This way more of your students will have the opportunity to perform hands-on project management, instead of trying to have all 20 students (I’m guessing at the number you have) perform the same tasks. This arrangement will also allow the students to later compare what they did on their individual projects. You might also want to set up some students as a PMO. You could designate one the PMO Director, another as the Risk Manager, etc. It would be beneficial for them to see how work and risks are coordinated across the projects.
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Nov 30, 2017 1:51 PM
Bradley Pallister
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Food for a lot of thought there Eric, thanks
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Bradley PallisterOperations Director, Programme Delivery, Career Readiness Campus Lead| Innovolo Product Development & Design ServicesCarclaze, Pl25 3ah, United Kingdom
Nov 30, 2017 11:00 AM
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You might want to divide Careers Day into a program instead of a single project. This way more of your students will have the opportunity to perform hands-on project management, instead of trying to have all 20 students (I’m guessing at the number you have) perform the same tasks. This arrangement will also allow the students to later compare what they did on their individual projects. You might also want to set up some students as a PMO. You could designate one the PMO Director, another as the Risk Manager, etc. It would be beneficial for them to see how work and risks are coordinated across the projects.
Food for a lot of thought there Eric, thanks
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Nov 30, 2017 1:53 PM
Eric Simms
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My pleasure, Bradley.
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Eric SimmsSenior Program ManagerBaltimore, Maryland, United States
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Wonderful Idea.
Have each one or group lead certain part of the event so they can plan the event, execute and monitor / control then close. There are so many different activities to engage them in. Saving Changes...
Maybe first get an idea of those that actually want to participate so you have more buy in and effectiveness from students who want to both manage the project and get hands on experience in the field. Saving Changes...
Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
I like Eric's idea of setting it up as a program with multiple projects. As long you have enough people to support multiple projects, it would be a great learning opportunity for the students and yourself, as well. Saving Changes...
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