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This course has changed how I think about project management in a few ways. I think when I first started, my view was mostly on the upside – how to take a plan and make it happen. What I didn't realize what that so much of project management involves the downside, the unforeseen, those aspects that aren't part of the project plan, but that can get in the way of success. Being able to anticipate and avert disaster or crisis is a bigger part of project management than I thought. This matters because that is a more creative side of the brain than the one normally associated with project management. I feel that with a focus more on the risk management side of things it also shows what your bosses feel – they are more worried that the project is going to fail, and avoiding failure is more important than any focus on a degree of success.
The other aspect is just learning that much more about project management. This is one field that really does seem to become deeper and more complex the more you learn. It is easy to think, when starting out learning about project management, that it is just about the orderly apportionment of resources. That's true, but first that is much harder than it sounds when dealing in the real world. Resources are finite, and sometimes they are perishable, like labor hours. Moreover, there are always constraints that have to be managed, and while it is not hard to envision a best-case scenario, it is also understood that you will never achieve that scenario. It's an interesting field in that sense.
Of interest to me is actually the risk management part. I think that in a large project, there are multiple roles within project management. One is to look at whatever it is you are building, and make sure that it gets built, but the other is that more creative side where you are looking at what might happen, envisioning problems, and proactively addressing them. Building a proactive vision of problems into your original plan is especially interesting to me, because this taps into that creative part. What I feel is that it's easy to envision disaster scenarios, but knowing how to...
…a detail oriented right-brained person, the amount of creative thinking is much higher than I would have guessed. But to me, that's a good thing, because I feel like I can tap into both sides of my brain, and that encourages me so that when I get out into the field and end up doing project management in practice I am prepared.What I have learned here will be quite helpful to me going forward. My sense is that I came into the course feeling like I understood project management reasonably well. Now I think that perhaps I know a lot less than I thought. I will not say that I know nothing, but I definitely know a lot less than I thought. This is good, though, because it gives me direction for future learning and skills acquisition, and I will take this humble pie to my next round of studies on the subject, and to when I start doing project management in practice as well. There is a lot of value in going from that stage where you think you know things to that stage where you realize you actually know very…
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