In Dr. Lisa Anderson's class during the fall of 2019, EME 6235 Technology Project Management, we were tasked with a semester-long planning project. I elected to expand upon an experience from my teaching career which involved teacher inservice training. 

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At first I did not understand what was meant by the phrase "project managment" and I felt I had no experience with it. I learned that was not the case, and that, in fact, I had practiced many aspects of project management when I was assigned to manage an inservice training program for my faculty at my high school site. This assigment built upon tasks given each week, and the final product is the accumulation of this process. Once the topic was selected, I worked each week to add each required component of the project, conduct the necessary research, create the deliverables, establish a schedule and a timeline, and simulate a state-wide implementation of a policy mandate for teacher training. I was proud of this paper as it was rooted in my own past experience, yet it was updated and adapted for a larger organization with a more complex, hierarchical structure. Dr. Anderson was very complementary and provided helpful feedback for this project.

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What I wish could have been different about this project was the fact that I could not actually implement a plan I had spent so much time and effort creating. Ideally, when learning project managment, it may be more realistic to select a project that can actually be completed and evaluated so one can see how effective or ineffective the management plan turned out to be. Still, the lure for me was a connection to my own experience, and this helped me envision this plan from beginning to end.