26/10/2016

Today's session consisted of highlighting the potential risks involved with project management and working with an outside agency. Mark, our tutor for this session, discussed the variety of steps that individuals take when planning a project, and the risks involved. We identified that there are too many risks to consider when applying for jobs/universities etc, and at this point I honestly were not listening that much. I was thinking about all the up coming deadlines that I needed to be prepared for and was slowly get stressed out for.

Once I got back in to the Uni mind set, I realised that Mark wanted us to identify who the stakeholders are for the company Gratuu and why they believe they can be involved with the company.

Mark pointed out to us that the main elements that contain risks are:

- the resources required needed to conduct research

- risk and problem areas with dealing with the public

- budgets if being set one

- short-term or long-term objectives

In this session we found out that some of the projects set to us students are not for real life companies; ours however is, which honestly annoyed me as our group have put in a lot of energy and time towards or project, to help an outside company progress. The fact that other groups do not have to do that for this project, is frustrating for us. They can just pretend that they've been meeting up and still get a good academic result for this module.

We also found out that in the next few weeks we need to create a Gantt chart or a Kanban, but to be honest, I do not know what a Kanban is, so I will definitely need to conduct a lot of research about it.