WEEK 15 (27.JULY.2010) - PROJECT LIFE CYCLE - COMMUNICATION & CONFLICT

Today, we are shown few videos by our lecturer for our better understanding on the topic that we learnt today...COMMUNICATION & CONFLICT.

We did a group discussion in a class on the effective communication, anger management and conflict handling. We did a presentation and teacher shot us with challenging questions to our answers. But our group leader was witty and quick enought to convince teacher and justify our answers. However the point raised by teacher were valid, and we took back into consideration if we faced the same challenges in our work situation we may know how to handle them.

Our tutorial 5 was thrown back to us because we made some error on our risk assessment portion. Teacher suggested that those cost that are deemed necessary to be incurred must be included in our cost budgeting. So we have taken back into consideration that we will amend our cost budgeting and which will intern affect our ROI calculation.
Hopefully it will be right this time.... :)

Task for next week will be to re-submit tutorial 5, and we will be finally come to the end of the project management assignment. We are required to submit the full report of all the weekly tutorial that we have and prepare project closure.
For now..we are all lost..... :( .. but we will do our best!!!!

Reflection: Every project will have communication breakdown at some point of the stage. Through this activity, we are able to learn better as with proper communication we are able to understand each other needs and objective in getting the project done on schedule and by the given timeline. This tutorial on which we are assigned - to work on the budget had us thinking as we have to look at each job activity to forecast and anticipate the actual cost involve. We brainstorm, analyse and re-calculate the actual cost for each job funtion to ensure that it is justifiable and accurate as per what its expected in the current work environment. Fortunately, we are able to derive a solution and understand the flow of the working calculation.