IT Shadow in STEM Meeting - 03/02/2021

Hi Charita,

Great recap of the meeting. After discussing with my parents to reflect of this call, I learned that communication and efficiency is key when working as a project manager. My parents told me that there were many situations where if the manager was not clear and direct with his requirements, then the whole team would be deeply affected and would push the deadline further which is very inefficient.

--Pawan Medidi

Thank you Charita!! Nice summary...Hope everyone responds with their comments.

Here are my meeting minutes:

Session One

• Computer science could involve you learning about databases, programming, project management, application development, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, etc.

• No matter which big company you go to, there will be a department for information technology

• Information technology is lead by chief information officers (CIO)

• The CIO has a chief technology officer (CTO) that helps manage research and development

• Members of the application development team help develop applications

• Business analysis helps analyze businesses, meaning they talk to other business or clients to gain information about what they want

• Websites tend to have a lot of things going on behind the scenes such as coding

• In order to create a website, we need a developing team - web developers, web designers, graphic designers, people who have experience with cybersecurity, coding experience, etc.

• However, there must be a project manager to run the whole project

• The clients, businesses, and business teams must be there to even start the project and describe what they want and need

• Websites use different types of domains such as .org

• Some websites are broad but some can be targeted towards a certain audience

• Projects can involve solving a problem or forming a new program, application, or website

• Project managers first create a plan and then use that plan to make sure everything is headed in the right direction and make sure everything meets deadlines

• To be a technology project manager, you need some knowledge of technology and you need to be educated in leadership and management, and you need a certification from a project management institute (PMI)

• Project managers can work with multiple projects at once

• Project managers put together a plan and manage that plan and they report on that plan through stakeholder meetings

• Project managers do not need to necessarily manage only technology projects but can manage other areas as well

• Project managers are the go-to person for running a project and everyone in the project must go through them

• Being a project manager requires computer science degrees, an MBA, and a certificate from the PMI

• There are multiple methods to going through a project

• Waterfall is traditional and is very straightforward (design, development, test, and release)

• When you have extreme time crunches, AGILE methodologies are used where you do tasks very quickly and have daily meetings - tend to be smaller projects

• Project managers are common everywhere in any company of any field and are not limited to IT

Thank you Charita