Week 5 EOC: Midterm

 

As far as how I feel we did on our presentation, I think we could have done better. One way this could have been accomplished is by rethinking our approach in how to present what we have done so far. After speaking with Frank, I have realized what we need to work on to make a stronger presentation, and to get our design across in a more affective way. I feel that by rethinking how we organize the project would definitely help in creating a better design and presenting that design. As stated in our book Successful Project Management by Gido and Clements, “Organizing involves securing the appropriate resources to perform the work.” With this being said, by utilizing what we have organized in a better way, I think we can come up with a better presentation to get our project across to our viewers. Things I feel we have done well with our project would include defining the project objective. This is a part of detailed planning according to Gido and Clements steps listed, “1. Clearly define the project objective.” We have done this already, but I feel it was lacking what we had talked about over the time we have spent on the project as a group. This area could possibly be stronger as well. One way to do this would be to “Define the specific activities that need to be performed for each work package in order to accomplish the project objective” (Gido and Clements). Although it is our job as a group to come up with the project, I feel we are not able to get to that potential because we are unaware of what these activities are suppose to be.

As far as comparison of the two presentations, I feel that our group had come in second place and 4 Interior Design had come in first place. I think that 4 Interior Design has come up with a great presentation to get their design across as well as make its viewers more aware of their company. They clearly stated their client, color palette, materials, and more. The only thing I feel that went wrong with the presentation was it running on its own and jumping into music. The music was nice, but when speaking is going on, it is difficult to understand what is being said. Maybe by just having the instrumentals of the song and at a softer tone would be a better route. This way if something goes wrong, no one will notice. As for our group, I think we just need to work on creating a better presentation. We had the materials to go within it, but we just failed to utilize it all.