Chapter $1$: Project Management: Past and Present

Chapter $2$: Project Management Overview

Chapter $3$: The Project Life Cycle $($Phases$)$

Initial Postings: Read and reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Then post what you thought was the most important concept$($s$),$method$($s$),$term$($s$),$and$/$or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding in each assigned textbook chapter.

Also, provide a graduate$-$level response to each of the following questions:

How does the application of a phased approach to project management vary in different industries? Do you think that the phases work the same in construction as they do in event management or software development?

In what ways can the following activities be seen as projects? In what ways do they resemble ongoing, routine business activities? Feel free to add assumptions and details to describe how the activity might be a project in one context and routine in another.

Reading the chapter before attending a university lecture.

Taking the bus to work each day.

Piloting an aircraft between Vancouver and Fiji.

Teaching a course for the first time; teaching the same course every semester.