This was the winning team's presentation at the APM Wessex branch's PM Challenge finals night. All three finalist teams came from Bournemouth University where APM's 'The PM Challenge' is embedded in to their course.
9. • Planning tools – Gantt, Risk assessment, PBS,
WBS
• Progress report for APM and Karen – allowing
us to analyse the success more frequently
• Managing Quality, Time, Cost
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12. • Poster were not printed in time
• Graphic designer was late
• Red bull didn’t work out
• Lack of ‘what's in your fridge’ uploads
• We kept a risk log throughout the process which we
added to
• Made sure we had appropriate contingency plans
13. What did we do well?
• Worked well as a team
• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Stall in the atrium
• Innovative
What did we learn?
• Importance of communication
• Being realistic
• Naivety
• Professionalism
What would we do differently?
• Prioritise the APM challenge
• Utilise our resources more
• Select one deliverable
• Communicated more with certain
stakeholders
Recommendations we have
developed for future projects
• Ensure initial objectives are realistic
• Maintaining motivation
• Communicate with stakeholders
• Be cost effective whenever feasible
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15. • Lack of comments from external users (not as
self manageable as originally expected)
• Maintaining the site ourselves is feasible in
the short term
• Long term view seek out new owners –
possible first year students looking for project
management experience.
16. • Thank you to the APM for this opportunity
• Karen for embedding this opportunity into the
unit
• Russel (our mentor) for guiding us through the
process