Teaching Project Management with a SMART GIRL

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2021.1902" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2021.1902</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/inted.2021.1902" target="_blank" >10.21125/inted.2021.1902</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Teaching Project Management with a SMART GIRL

Original language description

Teaching subjects on any level of education is a process of passing knowledge from teacher to students. The result of this process is very much dependent on teacher's ability to pass his knowledge in an understandable and easy to remember form. Using examples, case studies, allegories or acronyms is a way of teaching appreciated by students. In management theories and practice, including project management, a concept of so-called SMART goals is widely used. The word SMART is an acronym of adjectives describing the characteristics of well-defined goal. The individual letters of the acronym stand for (S) specific, (M) measurable, (A) achievable or accepted, (R) relevant, and (T) timebound. As the letters create a word "smart", they are easier to remember for students. Project management is a type of management sciences which is taught at universities around the world. It is usually presented in a traditional form when students need to remember several so-called knowledge areas (PMBoK, 2013). This paper presents an alternative way of teaching project management by using an approach following an extended acronym SMART GIRL. While the first part of the acronym stands for the same words as in the SMART goal concept, the second part represents words (G) goals, (I) information, (R) resources, and (L) luck. When teaching project management this sequence of words not only makes logical sense but also is easy to remember thanks to the acronym. The paper briefly describes this concept and offers an alternative approach to teaching project management.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50204 - Business and management

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Conference Proceedings of the 15th International Technology, Education and Development Conference

ISBN

978-84-09-27666-0

ISSN

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e-ISSN

2340-1079

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

9086-9091

Publisher name

IATED Academy

Place of publication

Valencia

Event location

online

Event date

Mar 8, 2021

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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