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1. Project Management and Developing our
Future Generations
Mark Reeson, FAPM RPP PMP
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2. Mark Reeson, FAPM RPP PMP
29 Years of Project Management Experience
24 Years of Service in the Royal Air Force
Author of Nuclear Decommissioning Plans
Fellow of Association of Project Management
Project Sustainability Lead in the UK and Author of P5 Model
Developer for Project Management for Schools
Owner, MR Project Solutions

3. School Environment Overview
Early days teach to learn through play
Children grow in those environments
Schools changed – results oriented, pass tests, meet targets
When did learn through action become a dirty word?
Schools under pressure – stealing social skills that allow children to develop
naturally
How do we introduce a new topic without over-crowding the curriculum
further and becoming a part of the problem?

4. Creation of a New Concept
Birth of a New Way of Learning (The Old Way)
Research taken from Adult Learning
Early Stages for Development of Programme
Emergence of the Concept

5. Living Learning
Project Management in the Modern World
45% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of most
countries spent on projects
Qualified Personnel Numbers
438,000 PMPs
150,000 + IPMA
Repeating the Same Mistakes

6. Why do Projects Fail?
Records being kept for over 40 years
Phase by Phase
Initiating, Planning, Delivering, Closing
Common Theme
Planning, Resourcing, Requirements, Commitment, Communication
Importance of training to learn should not be ignored

7. Recognising the Need
Route to Success:
Recognition that things don’t simply happen
Vision
Project Managers need recognition of what they can do
Plan to make attractive and interesting for those involved
Barack Obama Quote:
“We need to change, so can we do it, yes we can!”

8. Implementing the Change
Route to Success:
Research Period with Schools and Learning
Institutes - 5 Countries
Created RFN (like-minded individuals with same
goal)
Birth of SMART Project Management
Blended Learning Approach of Theory and Project
Delivery

9. Practical Project Management
SMART Approach:
12 months of personal development work
Sessions broken into key topics as phases
Learn as project grows
Focus on using skills – not learning terminology

10. Living Learning Vision
Where to go next:
SMART Project Management establishes home
PMI Chapter Ownership in USA?
IPMA Global Visibility?
Local Authorities for Schools?
Piloting in selected schools to start in early 2014
Recognised qualification at end of learning experience

11. Benefits Beyond School
SMART Benefits:
Planning Study Sessions
Qualifications lead to College and University Positions
Workplace – Qualified or Capable?
Living Case Study – Stephen

12. Second Nature
Educating the Next Generation:
Playing ball or spinning a baton
Greatest sportsmen use muscle memory
Try to make future project managers with instinctive
behaviour

13. Summary
SMART Project Management – not a Methodology
Vision to educate future project managers
New Way of Teaching Children
The old way – tradition
Skills and Behaviours of Project Management at earlier age
Age 15-17

14. Final Thought
With the skills, behaviours and ethics that
professional Project Management brings instilled
in our children at that early age, could we and
they make a better tomorrow, today?

15. Questions?

16. Intelligence – Integrity – Innovation
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