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A Method to Solve PBL Issues and to Improve Project Management Competencies of Students
Author(s)
Taketoshi Yokemura
Masahiro Inoue
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2185/2018.03.001
Affiliation(s)
Shibaura Institute of Technology, Saitama-shi; Ricoh Company Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Shibaura Institute of Technology, Saitama-shi, Japan
ABSTRACT
It is generally accepted that
Project-Based Learning (PBL) is very valuable in preparing students to become working members of society. However, some issues
have been recognized with PBL such as: (1) some students lack an active
attitude or ride on the coattails of their teammates in their PBL team work;
(2) a range of achievement levels among project teams; (3) spending most of their time to discuss the objective
and the goal; and (4) not well managed as a project. Integrated
Scheduling Method (IScM) and the associated tool called Deliverables Dependency
Matrix (DDM) have been proposed to create a highly feasible project schedule
for a product development. It was noticed that they might have the potential to
resolve these PBL issues because the schedule creation is a core part of
project management and includes most of all factors to manage PBL as a project. Two trials of the
application with Modified-IScM (M-IScM) and DDM to PBL courses have been
conducted. The first trial was intended to evaluate if M-IScM and DDM could
resolve the PBL issues. A lecture prior to the second PBL with some findings
from the first trial was given to students to improve their project management
competencies. As a result, it was confirmed that M-IScM and DDM had the
potential to resolve the PBL issues and revealed that PBL had two internal
project types, the Goal Search Project and the Goal Oriented Project with the
associated work processes and methods. Furthermore, the Goal Oriented Project
could be divided into the Development Project and the Value Creation Project.
Understanding and utilizing these project types will improve the competencies
of students regarding project management to produce a good outcome in PBL, and help develop the leadership and fundamental
skills to be a capable business person.
KEYWORDS
project management, project-based learning, work breakdown structure, scheduling
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