{"id":392,"date":"2017-01-31T22:47:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/?p=392"},"modified":"2017-02-16T01:50:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T01:50:46","slug":"project-management-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/2017\/01\/31\/project-management-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Management Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p>I always integrate project management readings and discussions into my production oriented courses. It&#8217;s a good skill set for students to pick up, and discussions of project management tips and techniques needs to be more formalized in our programs. As a long time consultant, being a good project manager was a key to my success not only on specific projects, but in my consulting career as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>So students had to read some stuff on project management and then we attempted to do an in-class exercise about the readings with an emphasis on collaboration. But, alas, that exercise was in some ways a total bust. What we did get out of the exercise was a big laugh and ongoing reference to the failed exercise where we all ended up standing against in the wall in weird disjointed circle.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, following are some of the questions that students asked about project management and my answers to their questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How much variation between organizations is likely in regards to control given to info designers (or professional writers)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are there questions that are standard to ask clients\/customers\/user during the planning phase?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does innovation really look like, especially within traditional project at a large organization? How often do these innovations fail?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Given pressure from above, how strictly should one adhere to the project plan?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strategies for dealing with inflexibility that jeopardizes part of the project?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In large organizations with multiple project managers, how do all parties maintain effective communication with one another?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the best way to disseminate information in the impossible planning stage? Is simpler better?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always integrate project management readings and discussions into my production oriented courses. It&#8217;s a good skill set for students to pick up, and discussions of project management tips and techniques needs to be more formalized in our programs. As a long time consultant, being a good project manager was a key to my success &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/2017\/01\/31\/project-management-questions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Project Management Questions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/info-design-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}