Cornerstone Lab

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Cornerstone Lab Project Management A Primer
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Project Management A Primer
Project Defined

• A project is a set of interrelated tasks
• designed to accomplish a specific goal.
• Any piece of work is a project if it involves
• A defined outcome
• Resources
• Time scale

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Project Lifecycle 4 Stages

• Concept Developing goals and
• objectives
• Planning What to make What to do
• Implementation Doing it Evaluation
• Evaluation Did we learn anything

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Project Lifecycle Concept Plan

• Identify what you want to achieve, by when, for
  whom and within what constraints.
• Goals and Objectives
• Stakeholders
• Benefits
• Challenges Risks

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Project Lifecycle Project Planning

• Answering Who? What? When? Where? How? What
  will it deliver, what is the logical sequence of
  tasks, who will do what and when?
• DBS WBS
• Allocate time and set order of tasks
• Allocate responsibilities
• Critical Path

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Project Lifecycle Project Implementation

• Putting your plan into action and evaluating
• the effectiveness of your project.
• Okgo do it!
• Evaluation
• Analysis
• Corrective actions

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Project Lifecycle Final Thoughts

• Evaluate your finished product using the four
  Cornerstone competencies.
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Creativity Problem Solving
• Adapting to Change

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Project Requirements

• Each team member MUST contribute at least 40
  hours of work not including team meetings and
  class attendance.
• The project must have tangible and
• identifiable stakeholders.
• 3. Stakeholders must experience the project.
• 4. You cant double-dip!

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• Keys
• There must be a benefit to living, breathing
  stakeholders preference is given to non-profit
  and educational organizations
• A project partner representing your stakeholder
  must agree to work with your team throughout the
  life of your project.

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Project Examples

• Creating a Safety Video for an Orlando Skate Park
• Coordinating a Family Day at a local YMCA
• Managing a food and clothing drive
• Creating a web page and instructional data for a
  UCF professor
• Constructing a haunted house for Camp Challenge
• Running a instructional baseball camp for a local
  nonprofit

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Grading

• Team Assignments Scoring
• Project Concept Outline (20 points)
• Project Concept and Plan (70 points)
• Implementation and Evaluation (60 points)
• Planning Presentation (75 points)
• Implementation Presentation (75 points)

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Grading Reports (150 points)

• Project Report Format
• Completed cover page
• Memo of transmittal
• Report body
• Agenda(s) for team meeting(s)
• Minutes of team meetings
• Appendix with any supporting documents.
• Turnitin.com verification

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Grading 2 Presentations (150 points)

• Project Presentation Format
• Informative, Creative, Professional
• All members MUST speak
• Approximately 13 17 minutes long
• Use visual aids
• Apply presentation skills (SEI)
• Participative QA