3 Project Management Skills I Learned From AIMC
#1: Lean Meetings
Lean Meetings were introduced to our class as a way to generate lots of ideas in a short amount of time. We practiced lean meetings by taking our sticky notes and sharpies and each writing down 5 ideas that we had. At the end of the 5 minutes, each person in our class had 5 ideas generated, and when we stuck the sticky notes on the whiteboard. It became clear as soon as the sticky notes were on the board that this method was a huge time saver! We were able to generate about 30 unique ideas from our class in the span of 5 minutes. Although not every meeting can be a lean meeting, and they often lead to more in depth conversations, they can be a great way to break the ice and generate lots of ideas, especially in instances where not everyone is comfortable sharing their ideas with the group.
#2: Take Lots of Pictures of Your Work
Not only can pictures help you visualize the work that you did, they can also help you describe the process to others.
When our class first started creating websites for our own personal brands, our Professor, Dan Purdy, introduced us to the idea of wire framing to plan out our websites.
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I, like many members of the class, had no clue what a wire frame was, or how I would start planning a website. Luckily for us, Dan had pictures of his own wireframes that showed us what it should look like. Although the picture seems like a small thing now, I've realized how much time we saved by being able to visualize a final product, rather than have it described to us.
Check out the wireframe I made for my website!
#3: Staying Agile and Adapting
As I'm sure you can expect with any new course that's being offered, there countless times this quarter that we began work, and then decided to pivot and try something else. I truly believe that the AGILE methodologies that we learned through our first quarter made this process easier down the line. Using "sprints", a term that refers to short periods of time that you have to complete work, to keep us on track was essential. At the beginning of the class we were all very hesitant to post; using the sprint method forced us to push out content, and our goal became to improve with each new piece of content, rather than making every single one perfect.