End of Week 5 Reflection

This week the biggest discussions were based on project management and going about getting permission to implement new ideas in the workplace. It has been interesting this semester looking at the different plans that have been made for projects on websites. I did this and am continuing to do it for my Project Management class. Some of the plans are so elaborate, some would wonder if it was really that necessary to have such elaborate plans. But if you look at history and at projects that surpassed expectations vs projects that failed, the ones that failed lacked the planning needed. Even if you don't think it is important to note, you might as well note it just in case someone out there comes upon the project and is wondering that exact same thing. Once again, my whole documentation idea pertains to this week also as documentation on a project is key. If you don't have the documentation necessary and someone knew comes onto the project, then it is going to end up being troublesome for the new guy and waste manhours and possibly lead to misinformation being handed out.