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Team leadership, scheduling, avoiding scope creep, and not biting off more than one can chew are the most important principles for managing projects effectively. The reflection discusses how a positive leader affects team morale and success. It also explains how a class project on planning a birthday party showed the importance of scheduling and planning. Companies sometimes take on more work than they can handle and allow scope creep without authorization, which can be detrimental. The reflection also discusses learning about the major steps in projects and feeling most capable in communication, checking in with teams, and providing positive uplift. Areas to improve include business strategy and thinking critically under pressure. The class helped gain confidence in understanding successful project management factors.

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Project Management Insights

Team leadership, scheduling, avoiding scope creep, and not biting off more than one can chew are the most important principles for managing projects effectively. The reflection discusses how a positive leader affects team morale and success. It also explains how a class project on planning a birthday party showed the importance of scheduling and planning. Companies sometimes take on more work than they can handle and allow scope creep without authorization, which can be detrimental. The reflection also discusses learning about the major steps in projects and feeling most capable in communication, checking in with teams, and providing positive uplift. Areas to improve include business strategy and thinking critically under pressure. The class helped gain confidence in understanding successful project management factors.

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Reflection Module 7

Aug 9, 2022 7:01PM


Caitlin Morganti

PART 1: I think the most important principles and practices for effectively managing
projects are, team leadership, scheduling, biting bb off more than you can chew and
avoiding scope creep. I think these are the most important because when a project is
introduced the project manager and or team leader needs to be positive, uplifting, and
supporting. In my own experience when you have a leader that is negative or not as
involved it affects the employees and or team members morale and the project's overall
success. In previous classes in organizational leadership I have learned how important
it is to have a strong leader so the group feels empowered to reach the goals set. As for
scheduling I have learned this is extremely important in project management especially
with my group in module 3/4 when we had to create a plan for a child's birthday party.
This module and project during this semester showed me how important scheduling
and planning is, even if it was just for a party there is a lot of work that goes into
planning and scheduling. As for "biting of more than you can chew" I think companies
get really excited when they are asked for a project or selected to make a new product
from other vendors. We have seen these in other case studies especially the "rush to
failure" story in the HBR guide to Project Management. This is a clear example of biting
off more than they can chew as well as avoiding scope creep. Before I took this class I
had no idea what scope creep meant, after taking this course I feel as If I have mastered
what scope creep is. I think it is extremely important to recognize how detrimental it can
be to adding and removing parts of a project with no authorization and or
communication.

PART 2: I have learned a lot about project management from this course and the
different aspects involved in a project. Until taking this class I did not realize how many
major steps there are within a project especially if it is for a big company. Although, I do
see myself as a team leader that is different from a project manager. The areas of
project management I feel I would excel in would be communicating with my team
constantly and checking in with them. As a supervisor at Starbucks I am constantly
checking in with others about how they are doing, how their roles are, and how the other
tasks I gave them are going. I would also uplift my team and be as positive as I can be
even when there are problems within a project. I still feel like some areas I can learn
more about are the business and strategy side to project management. I would like to
learn more about businesses and how to think critically in situations especially under
pressure. I would also like to work on being more confident with scheduling for a project
and making sure I am not over using resources or out of budget. Overall, I really enjoyed
taking this class and learned a lot about the different aspects of project management
andI feel I am more confident in understanding how to take on a project and the most
important factors it takes to be successful in a project.

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