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  • Project Management Lab - SPDA2021

    Spring 2022

    This workshop helped students organize and assemble their Connections class projects from Project Management and Seminar classes taught by Dr. Dianne Gravley and Kevin Sanders. This first year's Connections class project for Cohort 3 students was to create a dedicated space to provide advice and structure to advance their final presentation.

    Activities that supported the main partner project were reviewed in class to help as students assembled their final portfolio project and presentation for review with the head of the UNT Marketing group, Vincent Fisher his staff and our faculty.



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    Design Thinking Activities for UNT Marketing project

    In addition to studying the Balanced Scorecard, students decided which Design Thinking Framework activities needed to be explored to help their group create solutions for the midpoint review and final presentations.

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    Class Activities

    Weekly Whiteboards

    Weekly Whiteboards

    Themes, timelines and artifacts were created through exploration of topics. Instructors from integrated classes also guided the topics from their specialties.

    Card Sorting

    Card Sorting

    Exploration of targeted and inspirational competitors helped students find opportunities for our UNT Marketing partner.

    Cohort 3: UNT Marketing presentation

    Faculty / Partner Check-ins

    Mini-presentations to faculty helped sharpen communication skills and demonstrate progress on the project.It also helped in preparation for the bigger presentations.

    Weekly Whiteboards

    Storyboards

    Themes were disccovered in exploration and discussion. Storyboards visualized these themes through image and copy.

    Final Presentation Deck

    Cohort 3: UNT Marketing presentation

    Cohort 3: UNT Marketing presentation