Sun., May 20th, 2012

My Life is a Laptop

Project: Literature Review


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Competencies Illustrated

Communication

Communicating ideas in writing is an essential skill I continuously strive to improve upon. Given most of the online course assignments involved extensive writing and mandated the use of proper grammar, spelling and structured writing, it enabled me to develop my written communication skills. This assignment, in particular, demonstrates my ability to extract the most important topics from a reading, summarize the information, compare them to other topics in project management and convey the high points presented by the author in a written paper.

Context This literature review, based on the book titled "Web Project Management: Delivering Successful Commercial Web Sites", was one of five major assignments completed during the Spring of 2006 for EME6631, Managing Instructional Development with Dr. Bonnie Armstrong.
Conditions
  • For this assignment, the guidelines were to select and summarize a book on a topic related to managing instructional development or performance improvement.
  • The summary review required an Introduction, content summary, comparison of topics discussed in the book with Project Management topics discussed in class, a job aid, and conclude with my reaction on the content and author´s presentation of the content.
  • Given the topic was of special interest to me, I recall reading, summarizing and writing the review in three days despite having roughly three to four weeks to complete this review.
Scope
  • This paper was an original work created for this assignment.
  • Excluding the reference page, the review was twelve pages long and included three tables; one of which served as a job aid summarizing the key deliverables to managing web projects categorized by phases and stages.
Role Individual Assignment
Excerpt from Project "Relevance to Managing Performance Improvement Projects

As I read the book I bookmarked the topics closely related to Instructional Systems Design and managing Performance Improvement Projects. As I went back to review them, I realize how many similarities there were; too many to remark in a page or two. However, a few were more analogous than others.

The Role and Skills of the Project Manager

The role of a project manager seems to differ only in the specifics of the product itself. While there may be different granular processes and terminology, the roles are very much the same; they prepare and plan the project, define the specifics on tasks, delegate roles, hire team members, consult subject matter experts (SME´s), advise the client, schedule staff, time, and resources, provide estimates and final costs, conduct and attend meetings, analyze the risks and plan for contingencies, and, finally, evaluate the project and performance outcomes..."
Project File(s) PDF Version of Literature Review Literature Review, "Web Project Management, Delivering Successful Commercial Web Sites".