1. Project Management

2. DEFINITION
Planning, organizing, and managing resources to successfully complete a project
Creating timelines to meet required deliverables
Checks and Balances among teams
Record of milestones and how milestones were achieved
Documenting the process

3. SUCCESSFUL PLANNING Detailed short-term planning
Broad long-term planning requiring the plans to be revisited as the project progresses

4. PLANNING USING AN EXCEL TIMELINE SPREADSHEET
Use any version of Excel to make timelines and planning for the sub systems
As teachers each subsystem should have certain deliverables to you as well for the sake of the whole project
Free online Gantt Chart project planning software is also available (e.g. Tom’s Planner –

5. PROJECT DIVISION INTO SUB TEAMS
Evaluate the Experimental Design and Project Overview
Determine how the experiment could be broken into different sub categories
Plant Growth: Plant Physiology, Mechanical, Electrical, Water System, Microcontroller
Give a mission and purpose to each sub-team
Assign deliverables for that team
Develop roles for each team member
Arrange weekly grades or meetings to determine if they are on task

6. BENEFITS OF SUB TEAMS Shared workload
Chances of leadership and personal satisfaction
A sense of belonging to a successful process
The ability to accomplish more than if work is performed independently

7. COMMUNICATION Using the Engineering Notebook
Engaging in sub team discussions
Having total team discussions
Meeting deliverable timeline

8. TEAM ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Recorder: Someone primarily responsible for the note taking (others will also transcribe information to their own notebooks)
Designer: Responsible for sketches and drawings
Procedure Developer: Designs the Procedures to use during testing
Data collector: Decides how the data should be collected and uses charts, tables, and graphs to collect the data
Data Analysis: Once data is collected, then it is analyzed
Communicator: Present findings to the larger group

9. MORE TEAM RESPONSIBILITIES
Prototype Planner
Prototype Construction
Portfolio Developer
**All Projects may vary on the roles and responsibilities and can be expanded or combined in any way that serves the class more appropriately.**