Review on Group Presentation: Planning

This week we will be starting on presentations on the themes of collaboration- planning, communication, intellectual property, conflict and remuneration. The first group presented was 3RDiConstruct and they presented on the topic- planning. Among all the other topics, planning appears to be the most relevant to their project.

          In terms of content, what I got out of these were informative but for me it was wide-ranging content and information overload which can be a bit too much for a presentation as it could be difficult to remember the entire presentation. The information I picked up from the presentation was generally about planning a project or a task and the importance of planning in the first phase of any project and that we should start off by planning to set a baseline or a direction that a project would head towards.

          For the overall oral presentation, the team was organized in terms of the roles, for example who goes first and who goes next, to explain the different topics related to what they are doing for their project. However, I think that it would be better for the members to stand up and present during the presentation instead of sitting infront and staring ta the computer screen most of the time and reading from the slides or the notes they have in hand. The written form was good, it contains a lot of information but as a presentation there were too many words and it was obvious that the members were reading directly from the slides because all the explanation and elaborations were on the slides.

          On the plus side, the team delivered the context very well, much information was provided and each member clearly understood what he or she was talking about and what he or she was presenting. There were a few things that did not meet the requirement though. They have shown a few examples like image of the building model, using a pyramid to describe the hierarchy unfortunately, no referencing were made. There wasn't any sort of image that illustrated or made the presentation more appealing for the audience.

          The team can improve by standing while presenting, as that will show no distance with the audience and shows interaction with them rather than speaking at them. Another suggestion would be cutting down on the words for the slides and focus on key information that they really want deliver to the audience so that the audience will be able to remember the key points after the presentation.