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Part 1:

For this first segment please return back to the first module of the OGL 240: Introduction to Project Management class and once again consider "How Good Are Your Project Management Skills?"

You are not required to take the quiz (although it might be fun), but use the questions or prompts as a source of reflection as you consider the content and experiences you have gained in both project management/leadership courses.

Please address each of these questions: Since first taking the quiz "How Good Are Your Project Management Skills?" until now, can you identify areas of growth or knowledge regarding project leadership specifically, or leadership in general?

Do you find yourself giving more consideration to particular areas, principles, or practices (e.g. scheduling, scope management, communication styles, etc.)?

Given your previous experience, as well as your more recent interactions with the Harvard Simulation scenarios, how would you define your personal approach to project leadership? What areas do you tend to emphasize or privilege while managing projects where trade-offs are inevitable? In what areas do you find your biggest challenges?

Lastly, although the scenarios that you worked through in this class offered a very narrow arena in which project leadership techniques can be applied, please take a moment and make the connection between the skills that you employed and learned to your own professional environment-whether you are already working within it or aspiring to soon work within a particular industry.

For example, how can project leadership skills be useful in government jobs, education, the non-profit sector, etc.?

In other words, what are your "take aways" that hold direct relevance to you professionally?

Be specific. Although you can easily discuss these questions in general terms, please integrate as many specific examples from this course's assigned readings, blogs, and simulation scenarios that you can to better illustrate your points, along with your personal experiences that help to illustrate your points.

Part 2: Part two has a more singular focus as you create THREE areas of advice for someone else preparing to start the Harvard Project Management Simulation for the first time. You are the expert since you have spent the last several weeks navigating each scenario and discussing them with your classmates. What words of wisdom can you impart?