{"id":358,"date":"2018-03-02T19:16:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T03:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/?p=358"},"modified":"2018-03-02T19:16:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T03:16:59","slug":"unit-3-activity-1-project-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/unit-3-activity-1-project-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 3 Activity 1: Project Management"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this example, the problem to be solved was the replacement of an existing, outdated technology with a new technology. The old technology was a source of many complaints, and it was hoped that replacing it with a newer, more-modern solution would lead to improved user experience. The overall goals were clearly documented and were integral to the selection process. The stakeholders were mostly instructors and students, but also some staff. There was a project plan that outlined the steps, clearly outlined the goals for each step, who was working on each step, what each person was doing on each step, and when each step was scheduled to be completed. The main challenge with the success of the project was that someone, think \u201cmanagement\u201d, decided to overrule the project leader\u2019s plan to allow users to have a transition period that would have allowed users to choose between either the older or newer technology until they had time to learn the new technology. This last minute change resulted in a lot of user frustration as they were suddenly forced to learn the new technology. Also, since the change was last minute, the project plan was not designed to provide support for an immediate transition. It\u2019s hard to plan for situations like this. You can\u2019t include mitigation strategies for every potential project risk.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this example, the problem to be solved was the replacement of an existing, outdated technology with a new technology. The old technology was a source of many complaints, and it was hoped that replacing it with a newer, more-modern solution would lead to improved user experience. The overall goals were clearly documented and were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt525"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}