Entries Tagged as 'Project Management'

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Project Management – Final Grade

I have been enjoying my time off so I had not checked back until now to see what my final grade was in Project Management. Drum roll please….. 87% which equals a “B”. In looking at the points that I acquired I got 870 out of 1000 available points. What this means is that if [...]

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Project Management – Week 8 – I Am Done

Wow – what a day. Yesterday was a very, very busy day for me. First I had 6 meetings at work which equals – no work done – only talking about doing work and then my final presentation and quiz for school. I really was not nervous about doing the presentation in front of the [...]

Friday, December 8th, 2006

I Aced My Quiz

I actually did pretty good on my latest quiz. It looks as though I only got one question wrong which still gave me a 92% which is an A. This now puts my grade at a solid 85% for the class and if I do well on our class project and the final I may [...]

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Project Management PERT Homework

Over the Thanksgiving weekend we had a PERT assignment for homework. To sum it up PERT is a method of estimating the probability of finishing a particular project with a specified amount of time. For anyone doing any type of a significant project that is valuable information. Basically you make up a project network which [...]

Monday, November 20th, 2006

I Am Not the Only that Bombed the Quiz

I am sitting in class right now waiting for it to start. I talked with some of my classmates and found out that I was not the only one that did not do good on the quiz. Everyone else that I spoke with said the same thing – they did not know what our professor [...]

Friday, November 17th, 2006

My First Quiz in Project Management

Well I took my first quiz last night in my Project Management class. It was an open book quiz which was cool. Unfortunately I still did not do very well. Several of the questions where not taken directly from the text. I think they may have been from the lecture but I do not recall [...]

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Week 3 and No Homework Done

That’s right, I stepped into class on my 3rd week without having done my home work. I have several different excuses that I could hand you that would work in the working world but school is different. The fact was that I was tired after working on the house all weekend and then helping my [...]

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Settling in to Going to Class

So I went to my second class on Monday. I still had not finished my homework from the the first class since the deadline for it was extended out to Tuesday night. I took the time instead to read the required 3 chapters for our second class. In class we discussed the various methods and [...]

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

My First Class – Project Management

Well last night I had my first class at DeVry. The class is taught by a professor that has a PhD in Project management and 30 years experience which includes 20 years of PM experience in the Air Force – pretty impressive. He is a good professor in that he tries to mix real life [...]