I am tasked to facilitate the IT Project Management module this semester. Frankly speaking, i face great difficulties trying to bring the concept of ITPM across to students. If only we can create a real life working scenario within the four walls of a classroom. Unfortunately, due to time constraint, it’s rather hard to achieve this goal.

Being an ex-hamburger meat Project Manager myself before i join this tertiary institution, I could see myself adding value into the day-to-day lessons with the students. This of course can be a great disadvantage also, as i tend to ‘nag’ the students more whenever they did something wrong or irrelevant. It just gets over my head sometime and i find myself having more and more difficulties ending my lessons on time.

The true life of a PM is not as easy as what the students thought. We introduce the Project Manager as the piece of meat wedged in between two pieces of thick halves of a bun. He/She has to appease the top management and the users (a.k.a customers) as well as to manage the teams under his/her charge below.

Most of the time, the users and the top management are not that nice to work with; and they can scream at the top of their voices whenever a project slips off the deadline or doesn’t meet their requirements. So being the meat of the burger you had to try ways and means to ‘protect’ the bottom half of the bun from sinking further, else the meat will be the one touching the ‘hot’ ground.

Aww…. this is also the main reason why i tend to be stricter to students in my classes this semester. I am just trying to be the bad egg in the basket. Hehee.

The world is a treacherous place to work in.

Stumble it!