{"id":29,"date":"2016-11-14T18:37:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T01:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2016-11-30T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T17:04:17","slug":"class-prep-5-framing-projects-scope-of-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/class-prep\/class-prep-5-framing-projects-scope-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Prep 05 &#8211; Framing Projects &#038; Scope of Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Classes 5 and 6 are connected &#8211; with class 5 preparing for a client meeting \u00a0in class 6.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Learning objectives:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>understand how to scope a strategic planning project.<\/li>\n<li>gain skills and practice preparing for a customer discovery meeting.<\/li>\n<li>appreciate the similarities and differences in strategic planning and decision making in commercial, public and special interest organizations and policy agendas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0Preparation:<\/strong>\u00a0Consider the following \u00a0articles\/links and questions and be prepared for in-class discussion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A) Skim read these two high quality end of term reports from Spring 2015&#8217;s COMM486M project. The brief was to develop a 3 to 5 year strategy plan for the Musqueam Economic Development Corporation.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/files\/2016\/11\/Group-Project-Report_Team-5_attempt_2015-03-31-13-03-33_Comm486m.team5_.2015.Musqueam-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\"> Musqueam-report 2015 ex 1<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/files\/2016\/11\/Group-Project-Report_Team-4_attempt_2015-03-31-13-55-56_MCC_TEAM4_FINAL_PRESENTATION-COMM486M.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">Musqueam project 2015 ex 2<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>What do you think of these reports?<\/li>\n<li>How is strategy similar and different for a public \u00a0or government agency \u00a0compared with a commercial organization?<\/li>\n<li>What questions do you have about preparing a report like this, but for a different topic?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>B) A full brief will be posted in class 5 in the assignment tab. But to prepare for class 5, read and consider the following short-form version of the brief:\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Your task<\/span>: Should the Government of Canada invest in a food security strategy that relies on a significant increase in local food production?\u00a0 If yes, what would you recommend as an implementation strategy, focusing on the primary barriers that proponents should expect to face, and the key activities that they could use to overcome these barriers? How will the Government know if its strategy has succeeded?\u00a0 If no, is there another approach that you would recommend for improving northern food security?Note, there are some links in\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/files\/2016\/11\/comm486M3-2016-short-version-of-project-brief-Increasing-food-security-.docx\" rel=\"\">comm486M3-2016 short version of project brief -Increasing food security<\/a>, and you should skim these before class to be able to engage in this complex topic.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Format for in-class activity for class 5:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What questions do you want to ask the client? (in attendance in class 6.)<\/li>\n<li>What should you already \u00a0know from secondary resources?<\/li>\n<li>What you don\u2019t know you don\u2019t know<\/li>\n<li>Structure to consider for framing information gathering: Values, Purpose, Vision\/BHAG: situational analysis, possible futures, chosen vision\/direction, strategies, tactics, metrics.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/files\/2016\/11\/Capstone-strategy-plan-Statement-of-Work-SOW.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Capstone strategy plan Statement of Work (SOW)<\/a>\u00a0For use in class 6 and for project proposal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classes 5 and 6 are connected &#8211; with class 5 preparing for a client meeting \u00a0in class 6. 1. Learning objectives:\u00a0 understand how to scope a strategic planning project. gain skills and practice preparing for a customer discovery meeting. appreciate<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/class-prep\/class-prep-5-framing-projects-scope-of-work\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33675,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/308"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/comm486mmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}