Moore.Instruction.23

  Describe a project, either personal or professional, that experienced issues related to scope creep. What specific scope creep issues occurred? How did you or other stakeholders deal with those issues at the time? Looking back on the experience now, had you been in the position of managing the project, what could you have done to better manage these issues and control the scope of the project?                                                                              image source: Zentao Scope creep occurs when a project acquires new, unauthorized features that potentially disrupt the budget, timeline, scale, or other major points of a project (Larson, 2009). For me, scope creep occurred at the very start of the 2022-2023 school year. For context, I was starting at a public school here ...

  Money is a finite resource in most projects. Knowing where this resource is used and how it is being used is of the utmost importance for PMs. As we learned in the resources this week; suggesting, implementing, using, and tracking a budget is very important. Fortunately, there are a number of programs that exist to help assist PMs with "following the money."  According to Carrol (2022), a solid project budget and resource management tool can make managing a project go easier. PMs, should use project management software to automate budgets and report accurate data. A good program would also provide data so that PMs can make adjustments to the project.  I looked into float.com and smart sheets again this week to identify how they help with budgets. Float.com: With float, the process of tracking budgets clearly was apart of its most recent updates. According to Prator (2023), a developer at Float, the project budgets will allow users to plan, set, and track project hours a...

Navigating Projects                                                     Image source:https://trackimo.com/live-map-tracking-system/  This week we were tasked to research different online programs that would help with the management process. According to Dr. Stolovitch "Working as a PM is similar to being a traffic conductor, you have to manage people, resources, budgets, activity, and so on."  (Walden, n.d).  Dr. Stolovitch also used a similar analogy when it comes to project management, describing it as a "highway" of sorts. So to help us navigate and monitor the high traffic of our projects, we have to use effective systems, much like one would use a GPS to navigate. The overall goal of any system tool is to make work streamlined and efficient. Two tools I discovered this week are Float (https://www.float.com/) and Figma (www.figma.com). Both...