Welcome to Week 2 of ITC571. This week I focused on the commencing the project planning and addressing the Week 2 Topic activity: Identifying which project management tool I would be using – MS Project was chosen as this tool is commonly used in organisations, including my own. Establishing a project gantt chart – this can be found as a preliminary schedule in the Project Plan. What gained project management skills would I be able to utilised from my current day job for this project – this summary is provided below. My current role in mining involves the use of Read More …

First week of the project is done, with the project content underway. In the past fortnight, a capstone research topic was chosen – along with a project abstract stating the project problem domain, background on why the research topic was chosen, the aim of the project, what resources would be used to further explore the topic and the specific project deliverables. Given the other highly technical subjects chosen by peers, I did question if the topic I had chosen was technical enough to be assessed. I contacted the lecturer with my topic, receiving full support to go ahead with this Read More …