Project Management
General
- Undergraduate; 3rd year
- 10 learners; individual projects
- 100 hours per learner
- Dates set by experience
- Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
- 6 projects wanted
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Academic experience
- Any company type
- Any industries
Categories
Skills
Project timeline
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September 10, 2017Experience start
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September 25, 2017Project Scope Meeting
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December 15, 2017Experience end
Timeline
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September 10, 2017Experience start
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September 25, 2017Project Scope Meeting
Meeting between students and organization to confirm: project scope, communication styles, and important dates.
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December 15, 2017Experience end
Overview
- Details
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Do you have a project that needs to be coordinated between Sept-Dec 2017? A George Brown project management student can manage this for you!
- Learner skills
- Organization, time management, critical thinking, problem solving
- Deliverables
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Each student project manager will devote at least 100 hours to your project, specifically the student will:
- Create a Project Charter
- Create a Project Plan, including a Project Budget
- Prepare Status Reports
- Set up Project Management Tools to increase Virtual Collaboration effectiveness
Project Examples
1-2 George Brown Project Management students will spend the September-December period doing at least 100 hours of project management work on a project of your choosing. This includes project planning and preparation, and coordinating work effort.
Successful projects in the past have included:
- Improve the volume and quality of a database, and how it's used
- Social Media Marketing Campaign with content plan for a year (note, students can work on marketing related projects but there should still be a project management focus)
- A new product launch
- Creating an annual event or attending an upcoming one (tradeshows, conferences)
- Stakeholder mapping
- Development of a new website
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Treat PMs as entry-level contractors
Be willing to support the PMs as this may be the first time in this position, at least in the beginning until they get the ball rolling
Be available for 1.5 hours per week for regularly scheduled meetings
Be responsive to periodic emails or phone calls to answer any questions or concerns that the student(s) may have as they progress
Complete a final evaluation for the professor