Cmgt 450

What constitutes a "Project" in your work situation? What is your position in the Project structure?

In my work situation a project can be considered as a temporary organization, or set of managements; undertaken in order to achieve a desired product. A project in my workplace is like homework, you need to prepare, collect and read the subject materials then you would analyze and research the information gathered and turn it into a complete paper to meet the deadline set by the teacher.

I have worked in an elementary school-based environment as a technology coordinator for about three years now, this is where I get the analogy of a project as a “homework.” Students are often given homework by their teachers, and this is where the organization process begins from start to finish, trying to meet certain criteria and requirements. Does the homework completed in time to meet the deadline? Does it meet the result?

In my IT department however, this “homework” analogy translates into a larger accountability matter. The project given to the IT department has to meet and satisfy (or sometime compensates) the time criteria (which is the deadline); The cost criteria, which is the money and resources spent to get the desired result; and the scope criteria, which is the final outcome of the project itself.

As a technology coordinator, I supervise and oversee the technology management in the whole campus. This is also constitutes my role as the project manager for any technology projects given by the project sponsor, in this case mostly the principal of the school or the school governing committee which is the SBM (School Based Management)

2. What are the primary Project Management Techniques used in your work situation? How are Performance, Cost, and Schedule evaluated. Which are fixed and which are allowed to slip?

In my school site, we use some tools like the planning