{"id":24314,"date":"2014-12-10T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T08:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=24314"},"modified":"2015-08-31T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T11:40:09","slug":"managing-a-project-guest-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2014\/12\/10\/managing-a-project-guest-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing a project: guest speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Paul Spice spoke to grades 7\u201312 about project management. Entertaining and engaging, he kept provided students with valuable and practical information for planning a project. Key ideas shared include&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* Understanding the components of a project: time, cost, defined milestones, final product.<br \/>\n* Breaking a project into individual steps and determining a Critical Path based on a logical sequence of steps<br \/>\n* Understanding the logical connections between steps: finish to start (FS), finish to finish (FF), and start to start (SS)<br \/>\n* Identifying places to improve efficiency or flexibility<br \/>\n* Quality, Time, Cost: Recognizing that any project can only optimize two of these three at the expense of the third.<\/p>\n<p>Please take some time to talk to you child about this presentation as it is a great summary of how to manage projects in school (such as the grades 7 and 8 personal projects, IGCSE coursework, or IB extended essays and internal assessments).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0483.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0483.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0483.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Paul Spice spoke to grades 7\u201312 about project management. Entertaining and engaging, he kept provided students with valuable and practical information for planning a project. Key ideas shared include&#8230; * Understanding the components of a project: time, cost, defined milestones, final product. * Breaking a project into individual steps and determining a Critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":24308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secondary-maths","category-grades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}