My Reflection On My Experience In Project Management

As someone with a keen interest in project management, I was eager to experience all the stages of a project life cycle from its inception to conclusion. When I found out that we had to complete a project that ends with chairing a project management session during the SIUE Project Management Symposium, I was eager to participate. It didn’t take long for me to realize that even though it was a class project, we had to adhere to a lot of industry-standard project management practices or were in danger of failing to deliver an excellent product to our client and our stakeholders. I am happy to have been part of a successful project and while it was not always rosy, a lot of us had to learn a lot on the journey to delivering the final product. In the next few paragraphs I will breakdown my experience on working on this project into 3 sections; the most important thing I learned, the most surprising thing I learned & finally, the most useful things I learned.

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Over the course of the semester we learned that people are the most important resource so I was curious to see how the human element of project management would affect the quality of our deliverables. Since our project was just for class, I was surprised at how well the project manager, analyst & team leaders took to their roles of managing & supporting the team members. In the Results Team, our team leader made an active effort to understand the different personality types before she delegated tasks. Looking back on how we communicated during the first week to the week of the project roundtable, it was obvious that she was aware of this human element and in turn could lead effectively. While I don’t believe team members need to be coddled, it’s important that a team leader is empathetic and understanding towards