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Project Management 101 - April 29 - 30, 2015



KS Project Management in Action!

~Presenters~

Lance Tachino, Grant Murata, Siew Phua, Lauren Sodetani, and Kimble McCann (Guest)

- Strategic Planning & Implementation Division -

The presenters utilized lecture, guest speakers, videos, real world examples and team-based exercises to teach us Project Management Terminology, Methodology of Triple Constraint and Process; and Initiating, Planning, Executing, and Closing. During these discussions we also were able to work with various templates, such as Project Charters, WBS, Network Diagrams, Risk analysis, Communication Planning and Closure.

The presenters also covered the more nuanced interactions needed to maintain and motivate a cohesive and high functioning team. This is an important distinction of the KS methodology versus the standard project management guidelines. Most trainings of this type do not cover in as much detail the soft skills to successfully completing a project. The philosophy is that a project must build pilina and team satisfaction if it is to be a truly successful project.

We were also fortunate to have a presentation from Kimble McCann, IT ETS-I and past student of the workshop, that used his new skills to launch an initiative to bring Minecraft EDU to some KS elementary programs.


Using KS Emerging technologies as the avenue to explore Minecraft EDU he coordinated the effort to combine Hawaiian Culture, Geology and Minecraft. The end product was short videos created and produced by the students showing their ahupuaʻa they created with Minecraft EDU including a stream, lo'i and hala. It was inspiring and worth a whole talk on itʻs own.
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The workshop was a useful and entertaining introduction to the KS style of project management. I would recommenced anyone interested in honing their skills in this area to attend.



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