Teaching Agile Project Management in an Agile Way
HEA BMAF workshop
University of Hertfordshire
24 June 2011
Colston Sanger
HEA BMAF Teaching Research and Development Award, 2009-10
Faculty Learning and Teaching Fellow 2008-9, 2007-8
Agenda
1. How it all began
2. Teaching agile project management in an agile way
3. Contributions, questions
1. How it all began …
How it all began …
Returning to HE
At University of Surrey, 2002-3
Within the BSc WBL and MSc CASS programmes
Working in an experiential, Gestalt-informed way
Self, peer and tutor assessment
At London South Bank University, 2006-
Within the MBA programme
The opportunity to develop a Managing Projects unit
A series of funded informal experiments
Faculty Learning and Teaching Fellowships, 2007-8, 2008-9
HEA BMAF Teaching Research and Development Award, 2009-10
2. Teaching agile project management in an agile way
Managing Projects
Managing Projects
Not Project Management
… as a team sport
Requires
involvement, engagement
Working on real or „near real‟
projects
Staying alive to change
Frequent decision points
Communication, simplici
ty, feedback, courage
Intended learning outcomes
Knowledge and
understanding
Describe …
Identify
similarities, differences, conn
ections …
Intellectual skills
Evaluate…
Analyse …
Exercise appropriate
judgement …
Practical subject-specific
skills
Develop …
Demonstrate …
Transferable skills
Manage own learning …
Communicate effectively …
Work with others …
Recognise and support
followership, and be
proactive in leadership
Calibrating the process of
learning
Learning
agreement
Check-in
Weekly project
progress reviews
End of unit project
retrospective
Staying alive to change
Frequent decision points
Communication, simplicity, feed
back, courage
And also forms of congruent or
„authentic‟ assessment
Near real projects
You are members of the Special Projects team at the London Borough of Cross River
Your Chief Executive had a GREAT IDEA …
A summer Street Ski Jump Festival!
Ski jump
San Francisco 29/9/05
A summer ski festival
The great glass elevator
Landmark urban
regeneration
A solution to the inner
London housing crisis
Unlimited student
residences for Cross
River University…
Castle House,
Elephant & Castle
The “Elevator”
A London village fête?
2010-11 Project Challenge
Team Olympia
End of unit project
retrospective
What they said
Being asked what we had learnt
about managing projects at the
start of every class was
something I learnt a lot from. It
helped me reflect on experiences I
had with several formal and
informal groups I have been
involved with at LSBU this
semester.
But the main lesson, both for the human
and managerial side, has been that a very
high percentage of a project success
comes from the team coordination and
cohesion. Personally speaking, I believe
team members' motivation to achieve the
goal came from trust, perceived equality
in hierarchical terms, and pleasing work
environment. Sometimes this
atmosphere comes naturally, some other
times it needs to be created …
In this unit we were taught to find
many of the answers ourselves,
which I have personally learned
much more from... I learned to be
less dependent on teacher advice
and more dependent on my own,
which has given me more
confidence. I think this was a
really good learning experience.
Sometimes teachers answer far
too many questions easily when
they really need to let the student
search for their own answers.
Regarding my own learning
on the Managing Projects
course, I have to say that I
have really enjoyed the
classes, and the outcome
has been greater than I
would have expected...
Contributions, questions
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