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Resources for Planning an ID Project Schedule Project management can quickly get overwhelming. Luckily for us, working in the 21st century means we have unlimited access to websites, blogs, and online videos to help walk us through the rough paths of project management. By utilizing these ready-to-use resources, a project manager can make a more informed decision on tasks such as budget and scheduling. According to Niño et al. (2015), sharing lessons learned and knowledge management allows a project manager the flexibility to practice, reflect, and formalize plans before sharing them with their stakeholders with less risk of failure. The Digital Project Manager website blog offers its project manager viewers articles on managing teams, selecting the right tools, and training. The best part of this website is that it has a podcast. Podcasts allow the busy professional to gain knowledge and, at times, be entertained while on the go privately at any time (Goldman, 2018). Wearing headphon...

 Face-to-Face Wins the Case A critical soft skill for project managers to master is communicating effectively. According to Jena and Satpathy (2017), soft skill reflects a person’s relationship with other people through his character traits and interpersonal skills. A project manager has the sole responsibility to manage a project effectively. Therefore, managing people is one of the requirements a project manager must attend to for a project to be successful.  This week's assignment taught us to view the multimedia program “The Art of Effective Communication.” In the program, I observed a piece of communication in three different modalities: written text, audio, and video to represent face-to-face communication (Walden, n.d). Here is a brief synopsis of each modality.  Written Text /Email In most businesses, day-to-day communication happens often enough by the use of email. The purpose of an email message for business use should be to express an individual’s needs, requi...

 Project Management: Learning from a Project "Post-Mortem" As a school administrator, I often manage and monitor many projects concurrently. Projects are complex and nonroutine in a school because they involve many people, including students and teachers. As a school administrator, I can be considered a project manager because, generally speaking, the project manager's business is to create a product (Gaddis, 1959). In this case, the product would be an orientation for new students.  Background Information As the project manager of an orientation for incoming students, my roles and responsibilities were clearly defined and shared with the team of teachers involved in the planning stage. The teachers in the project implementation also had clearly defined roles and timelines to stick to to prepare for the orientation. According to Attarzadeh and Ow (2008), projects fail mainly because of the inability to plan and estimate correctly, failure to implement the tasks according ...

     Distance learning will have no choice but to evolve with the technological advances that will continue to emerge and present itself as a tool to help learning from the palm of your hand or the comfort of your home be more straightforward, faster, and more accessible to everyone. People’s perceptions of distance learning will evolve positively with it, too. It’s inevitable. Distance learning is currently described as institutional-based, formal education where the learning group is separated, and interactive telecommunications systems connect learners, resources, and instructors (Simonson, 2022). The current perception is that a learner enrolls in a program and follows a set of modules or units of study to reach a successful outcome of learner objectives within a certain period yet at their own pace. The expectation is that the learner should be able to demonstrate skills to prove they have learned the concepts taught. In the not-too-distant future, I can see the peri...