VUSSC/Samoa Boot Camp/Team leaders meeting/Day 2

=Brief Minutes: Day 2=

Morning Session: 9:00am - 12:30pm
Orientation to Project Management by Richard Nielson, Denrich Consulting
 * 1) Introduction of participants
 * 2) Power point presentation by Richard on ~
 * 3) Issues highlighted when working on projects:
 * Task to be completed within a given timeframe - in this case write a course in the two weeks in Samoa
 * Communication is a major and an important tool that will assist in getting the job done - everyone needs to be crystal clear on the task that lies ahead and what exactly is it that is to be accomplished..."when in doubt - ASK!"
 * Scope of project: Level 100, 3 credit point introductory disaster management course - offered as an elective or school wide course that will run for a semester (assuming a semester is 15 teaching weeks)
 * Resources for this project: Bootcamp participants, uploaded materials in basecamp, computers provided, support from COL, anything else???
 * Contstraints:
 * only 12 working days to come up with a finished product, and even more so, this is a course that must be ready to be offered in January 2008.
 * different levels of computer skills

Afternoon Session: 1:30pm - 5:00pm
Applying Project Management to VUSSC workshop
 * 1:30pm - 3pm:The group cut and paste, and did a bit of re-arranging of the curriculum topics that was produced in the brainstorming session in day 1,...to produce a 15 topic content that could be allocated between the diffrent groups in Samoa to work on.
 * 3:30pm - 5:00pm:Formation of groups and allocation of topics to different groups, and development of plan by Richard to manage project.
 * Groups for Samoa Workshop