Project Management Essay: Few Questions for More Answers

Instead of answering questions, students should often do the asking. That should be a requirement in every coursework – at the end of each, to pose own questions. While looking at students’ capacity to ‘answer,’ the other half should not be forgotten.

Why is it that students don’t get to ask more often? Is it because their questions are dumb? Lacking of any academic substance, mediocre? Whatever it is, it’s not just healthy not to ask. Asking or inquiry carries with it the same set of skill as the ‘answering’ exercise – but, of course, in a slightly different light.

In the context of project management essay writing, this asking exercise has the potential of making the writing endeavour productive. For one, the field would require students to ask the following questions:

Analysis: What is it that needs to be achieved?
At this rate, students are presented with lots of information about the project. There’s goal, there’s risk, there’s a lot to be addressed. All of this is placed in sight and scrutinised for the purpose of adding it up in the project.

Develop: What needs to be done?
Being an action-question, project management essays will get to showcase the expected processes, and devise a plan for it (processes). Putting all that in sequence and other categories, students will have to meet the specifics by asking more and more.

Execute: How do we go from planning to actualisation?
Eventually, students will encounter implementation. It is easy to put such event into words via the project management essay if students are actually into project managing. But if everything is left to theoretical concepts and reading applications, the students can only afford to go in detail – that is, more questions.

Assess: How did the project fare?
At the end of asking all questions, it ultimately bottles down to knowing the level of success (or failure) the project achieved. This question is, practically, the most crucial query as it puts into justice all preceding questions.

Of course, one may point out that the asking practice is never ditched, that students do ask, only unconsciously. But what is the point of having a project management essay and all other courseworks? -- To affirm that, yes, students could answer? Yes, but not solely for that purpose; it is also for students to learn to question the posted question – is it worth students’ answers?