Project Management

Project Management (USM ASET)

The Universal Answer to Complexity, Uncertainty & Risk

Presentation to Undergraduate Class

Technology Department, School of Applied Sciences, Engineering & Technology

January 2010

What makes Project Management worthy of being a specialty? What does it contribute?

This 90-minute guest presentation of 40 students in the introductory session of a three-credit Project Management course decribed typical projects, how Project Management works andwhat the essential steps are. It explored the elements of the Key issues of people, commitment, risk, communication and problem solving. It sketched the problems of the English Channel Tunnel project, and how they were caused by a failure to employ Project Management principles and practices.

The presentation concluded with information about te Project Management Insitute, its Maine chapter and Project Management as one of the top five in-demand skills.

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Project Management is the 21st-century model for managing complex, risky innovations to on-time outcomes within budget. Jim Milliken offers workplace-tested designs in customized formats for onsite implementation and classroom training.

Communication is the lifeblood of human organization, in small partnerships and large corporations – and the pipeline to their markets. Jim provides practical approaches to all the oral and written forms.

Personal Productivity is fundamental, and it consists of skills that can be examined, practiced and perfected. Likewise Leadership and Supervision. Jim has common-sense training designs for dozens of these essentials.

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