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    Project Management Skills for Coursework: A Practical Guide to Completing Bgcse Exam Coursework
    Project Management Skills for Coursework: A Practical Guide to Completing Bgcse Exam Coursework
    Project Management Skills for Coursework: A Practical Guide to Completing Bgcse Exam Coursework
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    Project Management Skills for Coursework: A Practical Guide to Completing Bgcse Exam Coursework

    By Dorcas M. T. Cox MBA

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    It can be a challenge to analyze information in ways that compares and contrasts, justifies a stand, supports and defends an argument, or creates a new product, outcome or point of view. Coursework is an avenue to question, test, evaluate, and formulate. It is also an opportunity to innovate. Applying project management skills to your coursework, helps you to flesh out concepts and crystallize these ideas in ways that promote broad thinking. This helps to give your coursework the edge making it a cut above the rest.

    Who Should Read This Book

    Project Management Skills for Coursework is intended to captivate the interest of persons who are:

    writing BGCSE coursework for various subjects (particularly business subjects)

    conducting and writing research papers

    new to the field of project management

    required to execute projects in accordance with a project plan

    aspiring to roles with increasing responsibilities that include project management

    focusing on real world practical application of project management

    increasing their breadth and depth of project management knowledge

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 30, 2013
    ISBN9781491700518
    Project Management Skills for Coursework: A Practical Guide to Completing Bgcse Exam Coursework
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    Dorcas M. T. Cox MBA

    Dorcas M. T. Cox is instructional designer and director of project services for Project Management Solutions Limited, a successful project management training and consultancy company. Combined, Dorcas brings over eighteen years of instructional design and project management expertise to her work in government agencies as well as having designed instructional material for a multi-national corporation that is used in English and Spanish throughout Central America and the Caribbean. She has facilitated training sessions in Canada, and throughout The Bahamas and the Caribbean including Trinidad, Barbados, Belize, and St. Lucia. She continues to work as an adjunct instructor for academic institutions. Dorcas has studied, lived and worked in North America and Canada. She earned her Project Management Professional distinction from the Project Management Institute and presently lives in The Bahamas with her son.

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      Book preview

      Project Management Skills for Coursework - Dorcas M. T. Cox MBA

      PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS FOR COURSEWORK

      A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO COMPLETING

      BGCSE EXAM COURSEWORK

      Copyright © 2013 Dorcas M. T. Cox MBA, PMP.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      iUniverse books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-0050-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-0051-8 (e)

      iUniverse rev. date: 11/02/2013

      To my mother, Ena-mae T. Cox, Desiree Cox, and David Allens, as well as all others who dare to believe and have the courage to try.

      Thank you Kim Bodie, Kmchell Dodge, and Astrid-Adjuah Cleare for your positive contributions in the areas of mentoring and youth empowerment.

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Introduction

      Chapter 1:   Starting the Project

      Definition and Purpose of Coursework

      Coursework as a Project

      Projects, Programs, and Portfolios

      Project Management Skills for Coursework

      Ethics and Internal Control for Coursework

      The Project Vision

      Project Start up Checklist

      Talk to the Right People

      Chapter 2:   Project Planning

      Collecting Requirements

      Confirming the Topic, Aim, and Objectives

      Using Data Collection Methodology

      Creating the Outline

      Estimating How Long it Will Take to Complete Each Task in the Outline

      Creating a Schedule

      Focusing on Quality

      Communicating Effectively

      Reducing the Risk

      Managing The List of People to Talk to

      Chapter 3:   Making It Happen

      Gathering Data

      Updating the People on Your List to Talk to

      Managing Expectations

      Monitoring and Controlling Schedule

      Reporting Performance

      Controlling Risks

      Conducting Meetings

      Chapter 4:   Celebrate

      About the Author

      Resources

      Preface

      When I began teaching project management certification classes in 2010, I focused on preparing adult learners to sit and successfully pass the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam and the Certified Associate in Project Management Exam (CAPM). These are globally recognized designations awarded by the Project Management Institute.

      Astrid Adjuah Cleare, a student in my first cohort, quickly became my friend. My requirements were that students applied the project management processes to real-world projects.

      During one Saturday class, Adjuah asked, What real-world project are you doing, Dorcas? How are you applying project management processes in ways that make a difference?

      Her question stopped me in my track. I began thinking.

      Adjuah shared her passion for youth empowerment with me, and I adopted it as my own. Our vision became the Bahamas General Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (BGCSE). The BGCSE is a national examination that culminates in a three-year program intended to equip students with marketable skills upon completion. The examination generally consists of three components, one of which is called the coursework. Coursework is a research project. Coursework is compulsory and is a perfect avenue to apply project management processes to youth audiences and positively impact national test scores in the Bahamas. Others partnered with us. Our vision developed with support from Rochelle Lightbourne, Tanya McCartney, Kim Bodie, Miguel Pratt, Kmchell Dodge, David A. Brown, Antonio Butler Jr., Daniel Bayssassew, Rachael Brown, Jordan Peterson, Gwendolyn Johnson, Cheryl Bowe-Moss, Keyshan Cartwright-Bastian, Ross Smith, Michelle Sears to name a few. Special thank you to The Hon. Jerome Fitzgerald M.P., Minister of Education, Science, and Technology for giving us the opportunity to present this body of work to the business subject teachers.

      For two weeks in the summer of 2011, we piloted our material to a group of tenth—and eleventh-grade students at Aquinas College in the Bahamas. These students applied project management processes to the BGCSE coursework requirements. We learned from the school’s principal (Mrs. Shona Knowles), subject teachers, and students. We continued working.

      As I taught more sessions of my professional classes, read books, and interacted with others, I continued learning and developing techniques for breaking down concepts often described as quite technical in easy-to-understand ways that were applicable to everyday life.

      My sister said, Simplifying the concepts broadens the audience appeal.

      Adjuah says, Find ways of teaching people how to apply project management to everyday life.

      My teenage son says, Make it interesting.

      It’s a tall order.

      Each of the four chapters of this book applies project management processes—from analyzing goals and identifying stakeholders to managing expectations, overcoming barriers, communicating effectively, and monitoring and evaluating progress and results.

      This compelling saga introduces concepts that may mirror your experiences. In relating to the concepts and becoming engrossed in their application, you may experience elements of your life unfolding.

      My teenage son will begin coursework in the upcoming school year. The contents of this book have supported him in successfully completing his requirements.

      I have made a difference through the work that I do. This book contributes to that work.

      Introduction

      It can be a challenge to analyze information in ways that compares and contrasts, justifies a stand, supports and defends an argument, or creates a new product, outcome, or point of view. Coursework is an avenue to question, test, evaluate, and formulate. It is also an opportunity to innovate.

      This book teaches you how to think through concepts and ideas. It shows how to develop greater skills in expecting and addressing change.

      Who Should Read This Book?

      Project Management Skills for Coursework is intended to captivate the interest of persons who are

      •   writing BGCSE coursework for various subjects (particularly business subjects);

      •   conducting and writing research papers;

      •   new to the field of project management;

      •   required to execute projects in accordance with a project plan;

      •   aspiring to roles with increasing responsibilities that include, and are not limited to, project management;

      •   focusing on real-world, practical applications of project management; and increasing

      •   breadth and depth of project management knowledge.

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