Project Management

MGMT 3011
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George Brown College
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
MS
Educator
3
General
  • Undergraduate; 3rd year
  • 50 learners; individual projects
  • 100 hours per learner
  • Dates set by experience
  • Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
  • 6 projects wanted
  • Anywhere
  • Academic experience
  • Any company type
  • Any industries
Categories
General
Skills
project planning risk analysis
Project timeline
  • April 30, 2017
    Experience start
  • August 31, 2017
    Experience end
Overview
Details

Do you have a project that needs to be coordinated between May-August 2017? A George Brown project management student can manage this for you!

Learner skills
Project planning, Risk analysis
Deliverables

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 May-August 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
  • 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