10 Project Management Knowledge Areas Integration and Omission

*****Please ensure you read all guidance for this assignment – A normal PowerPoint Presentation will not grade well*****

The focus of your evaluation for this assignment should be your ideas regarding the importance and practical application of the 10 Knowledge Areas as stated by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and listed in this week’s readings.

In this activity, you will use Canvas Studio to compile a Pecha Kucha-style presentation. Pecha Kucha is a form of a fast TED Talk if you will (please see guidance below). For this presentation, assume that the audience is a group of Project Management students at a conference; all are familiar with the 10 Knowledge Areas from PMI. You are one of several presenters they will receive briefs from today, so be creative, embrace the intent of Pecha Kucha, and follow the guidance!  Here is what to address in your presentation:

Topics to address in your Pecha Kucha-style presentation:

• Your thoughts on the importance of Integrating PMI’s 10 Knowledge Areas in the Project Management Plan, and does this importance change depending on the size of the project. 
• Your thoughts on the consequences or advantages of omitting certain knowledge areas from the Project Management Plan, and whether the size of the project matters regarding matters of omission.
• NOTE: No need to waste time explaining or defining each knowledge area; your audience knows what they are. Get right to the heart of this assignment! Demonstrate your critical thinking based on what you found in your research on this topic. Go past what was provided to you in this week’s readings and begin to formulate your ideas. This will pay off greatly regarding your understanding in the next few modules.  

Presentation Guidance:

PLEASE NOTE:  A Pecha Kucha-style presentation is one of the types of presentation methods the university has selected for graduate student exposure. PLEASE ensure you read about the intent of and proper use of this presentation style via the links provided. Pecha Kucha is not merely a PowerPoint presentation. You may use PowerPoint to create your slides and imagery, but PLEASE ENSURE you utilize Canvas Studio (link in the side tool bar under “Studio”) to execute and record your presentation in Pecha Kucha-style (vice posting a PowerPoint presentation for this assignment). Using the Studio Screen Capture (Go to Studio, select “Record”, select “Screen Capture”). Presentations are saved in your Studio files and can then be embedded in your post via the Canvas Studio link in the post toolbar.

Pecha Kucha is a rather condensed, short, informative presentation that leaves the viewer informed. The visual images are creative, cause an unexpected association to create a mental “hook” which is effective at driving the point home very quickly and in a memorable way. For instance, while explaining the adverse effects of extreme cold on uncrewed systems lithium battery life, I may choose to show you a picture of a Polar Bear clinging to a block of ice or a person running slowly in the snow, rather than busy eye charts or a pic of a drone flying in winter. Think of this as a fast TED Talk with visual imagery carefully selected. As it is said, a picture is worth a thousand words. Your picture should create a visual Hook for the reader that ties into the very brief and highly focused content you are speaking about. Again, this is different from a mere slide presentation. Use no more than 7 slides (not including title slide and reference slides) with only 20-30 seconds per slide maximum. Again, this will be a short, powerful presentation that leaves the audience informed and the images will drive the point home and stick with them. This style of presentation can include standard bullet statements on slides but are not required (and often not needed or as effective). If used, bullet statements should be very short, not full sentences. Your comments about your ideas are what matters, so think critically and spend some time mapping out your presentation. Thoughtful imagery should be on every slide.