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- Future Advice - Event Pictures - Audit -

 

 

 

                              Advice for Similar Projects

  • Be realistic about the scope of your project and what you think you can accomplish in the amount of time give.

  • Make sure that your idea does not limit your participating audience too much. As with our tournament we had people say that they play halo however, were not good enough to be in a tournament, limiting our projects profitability.

  • Start your project the day its assigned. You will need all the time you can get to organize and advertise your event.

  • Learn to trust your team members, it will make your project go that much smoother.

Future PMF

 

One thing our whole team agrees on is that we could have used more time. For the future of PMF we would like to see

projects start sooner so they can accomplish more.

 

 

Teammates Advice

(Lessons Learned)

 

Andrew - My lesson learned is that I have great teammates who take things over when the heat gets on for me, and thanks to you all.

Rob - In this project, I learned quite a deal about project management. Although I learned big things such as handling team members, customers, and how to manage inputs and ideas, I learned smaller details as well. For example, I learned about spin. The word "tournament" seemed to put a great number of people off; they simply didn't want to participate because they thought that they weren't good at Halo. For this reason, we began to adapt and started talking to people about being able to hang out and play in non-tournament play. Also, we adapted the message depending on audience; for those who we didn't think would be interested in Halo, we talked more about the charity and donations rather than the tournament itself.

Sher - I've learned that, when the combination of people is correct, I don't have to worry about having my hands in every little detail of every activity. This is the first team that I've been involved in where I haven't been the dedicated team coordinator and/or the main writer. It was odd at first, but wonderful in the end result. It's a great feeling to be able to trust your teammates.

 

LEO - I am surprised by the power of social network. First, social network helped in spreading words of our event and reached more potential event participants. From my experiences, once we have reached potential participants, they usually have friends who are also interested in the event. Therefore, promotion within social network is very effective and efficient while the event is time and resource constrained. Also, the power of social networt also helped our event went smoothly. In two days before the event day, we found out we were short of 10 game controllers and I needed to find 5 of them in two days. Then, I called up my friends and asked them to let them borrow some controllers for our event. Luckily, in the end of the day, one of my friends brought me all five the controllers and resolved the crisis ( if we couldn't find them by the game day, we have to buy them and which would reduce our net profit largely).

 

Brian - We dreamed big and we were anticipating additional sponsorship from Microsoft as well as Big stores like Fred Meyer for our grand prize donations. Being that we were thinking big I think we over committed to the grand prize before landing the bigger fish. I feel that we would have gotten a comparable turnout even if we didn't give out an XBOX 360. Next time let's get the prize donated and then offer it as a prize. -We really limited the interest of the Tournament by the structure of the play. We only had one play and that was all. If we set up prizes that were all small 10-30 dollars and gave them all away not based on rank of the tournament, it would draw the ones that are not the best players as well as the better players because everyone would have a chance to win something.