Presentations Make The Heart Grow Fonder

If there's one thing I could say about the last three weeks it's that it's gone very quickly. By the end of the first week we'd settled on our team roles, and received our first three assignments. By the end of the second week, I'd done a presentation/pitch on our team's systems. Let's start there.

After the last presentation that I'd done being only a couple of weeks before with Craig and Julian, I was feeling confident that I would do well. After all, the fears of doing a presentation have all but disappeared now, and there wasn't anything to worry about. We'd settled on the way that we were going to work, and we'd set up all our systems.

So it pleases me to announce that it did go well. Apart from getting confused with the Scope Creep concept during a grilling after the presentation it all went fine. We performed a good pitch, and now we're creating the website for Crigglestone Nursery. This the assignment I'm most looking forward to as I've never been a project manager before and I'm looking forward to the challenge. Although we've still got to get our website finished, which is hopefully going to happen at some point this week.

I've already learned a lot in the first couple of weeks being a project manager, but if there's a major thing I've learned in first few weeks it's that there is a lot of work to do. It's increased even more now that we've only got three to a team, so I'm having to do the administrative tasks as well as the actual project managing. I'm enjoying the pressure however, and I'm loving the challenge. I've just got to remember to keep 100% on top of my time management for me and my team. And make sure I evenly spread out tasks amongst my team members, which was originally a difficulty.

I'm also thoroughly enjoying the Box Clever assignment. Even though I already knew a lot about CSS I'm still learning new things with every lecture. It's nice to know how to do it right, and confirm some things that I was already doing. Because I already know a fair bit of CSS I can get really creative with this assignment, so I'm hoping for another distinction. I've already got a couple of ideas in my head, but this time around I'm determined to be as in depth as possible with the ideas generation section of the assignment.

A quick list of things to remember from these last couple of weeks:

• Spread tasks evenly amongst team members to make sure you get full use out of everybody
• Keep on top of your time management - you're looking after two other people's assignments now