The situation that I want to present is a personal project.  I am a musician and a year ago I started my second production.  To create a CD You will need to considerate many hours of planning and to take care of things to obtain good results.  Automatically I became the PM of the project, and at the same time the ID.  The first steps of the project are completed at my house.  I also have a music arranger, which turn my ideas true during the preproduction stages.  This process has to be very clear and establish details.  Once there are agreements with the other parts; this is permanent.  One example is the selection of songs; once they’re selected we need to search for copyrights and permissions.  This stage brings much money invested and many planning.

After the music arranger started, he calls me to share some suggestions and to change songs.  He wanted to use certain songs that he had the approval of recording them.  Starting the project all over again, meant a waste of money.  This situation interrupted my musical inspiration.  There were many calls, insisting on changing materials.  I don’t want to ignore how this situation made me stop my recording.  I wasn’t sure on how to handle this situation.  I decided to stay firm and share with him my desire to continue the recording as planned.

“There are critical moments when project teams have just gotta say “no!”.(Greer, M. 2010). This weren’t easy moments.  I was trying to keeping it as it was.  This changes affected my timeline and it brought many disappointments.  It end up delaying the date for the release and changes on the agenda.   An important detail is the fact that I didn’t include an PM that would have all evidence and documentation to avoid Scope Creep.   Factors should as “change Scope document” could help us.  These documents help us to stay firm and not accept changes.

References:

“Practitioner Voices: Overcoming ‘Scope Creep’” Walden University, 2010

Greer, M. (2010). The project management minimalist: Just enough PM to rock your projects! (Laureate custom ed.). Baltimore: Laureate Education, Inc.

“Project Management Concerns: ‘Scope Creep’” Walden University, 2010

Budgets and Resource Allocation

The process of developing trainings is arduous that requires a series of specific steps for the quality of it.  Various websites dedicated to the development of trainings presents us their services.  It presents various models that shares the amount of hours invested in this profession of Instructional Design.

 Learning Circuits

http://www.astd.org/LC/2009/0809_kapp.htm

Learning Circuits is a division of ASTD, dedicated on trainings for all types of business.  The majority of their studies are based on ADDIE.  R. Defelice and K. Kapp presents us a study about training development and the different factors that affect it.

 

 

 

Proton Group Co. 

 

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This company is dedicated to project managements of construction projects.  Project Controls, Scheduling, Estimating, Cost control and other specialized services offered.  The design and construction of structures requires a detailed planning process and budget planning.   The control of the inventory, work hours, payroll and schedules are priority for a company that is looking for success.