Description
Pre requisites: Participants need to be working on a research project
probably with some leadership or management role, or are likely to do so
in the near future. This overview workshop is aimed at staff who have
limited experience of leading projects.
This course is offered in this one day “overview” format and also in a
more detailed, practically based 2.5 day format. Both courses cover the
same generic aspects of project management but an integral part of the
longer format is using the participant’s project management plans and an
intensive half day hands on workshop on Microsoft “project” software. NB
Attending the overview workshop will cover the same content in less
detail therefore please choose one or the other based on the level of
experience you have: less experienced – overview more experienced –
essentials
Pre work: Belbin team profile questionnaire involving feedback from at
least four colleagues.
Overall aim of workshop:
To build a clear understanding of what constitutes a good research
project plan and how team behaviour impacts on the achievement of that
plan. The workshop will provide training in clear, simple and practical
processes for setting up and running research projects and project teams
by covering the two main areas of project management: decision making
and project control.
Intended outcomes: Participants will have gained knowledge of several
project management techniques that can be used on future projects to
ensure that projects come in on time, to budget and deliver successful
project outcomes.
Indicative content
Ø Introduction to project management
Ø Project techniques: Use of Work Breakdown Structure , PERT
diagrams, Gantt charts.
Ø Project Team Development including use of Belbin profiles
Ø Project leadership
Ø Project exercises based on University research projects
Ø Project administration: documentation; meetings; control
Ø Team exercise: practical project planning
Tutor : Bill Metcalf: Bill MA BSc MInstP CPhys FIEE, runs his own
consultancy organisation, Cambridge Strategic Management, specialising
in project management. Previously he gained wide experience as a
practising engineering manager, having served a formal apprenticeship
and worked in the Cavendish Laboratory, Hewlett-Packard and the Phillips
Group. He was for ten years the Chief Executive of an electronic
components manufacturing company. In his spare time he has set up
Eastern Europe’s largest digital map production company. He has been
running successful research project management courses at the University
of Leeds for the past six years. His web site is at http://www.csm-
cambridge.com
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