A few years ago I ran a project as part of an HEA programme where the project management was commended by the independent external consultant to the programme.
We did not want to use Prince2 or other elaborate control methodologies and we ended up with 2 documents:
- a concept map to express the vision underpinning the project (using free software which anyone can use after about 5 minutes introduction)
- an action tracker table/spreadsheet to monitor progress on specific tasks. (saved as Word document)
We reviewed both documents at each project meeting and found this worked. For most educational projects, I would argue that you do not need anything much more complex (we would have added a financial tracker if that had been necessary but nothing else).
I'd be happy to share this experience/ run a webinar if anyone would find that helpful.
I'll be at the SEDA conference this week if anyone wants to talk about this.
Best wishes
Peter
On 16 May 2012, at 10:57, Graham Lewis [gjl] wrote:
> Colleagues,
> Providing project management training is something I have never really cracked to my satisfaction. Of course there is the PRINCE2 end, but what most people need is a step down from that, but a step up from simple 'awareness of issues'. There are, of course, books aplenty as well as some excellent materials provided by the JISC and others, but I wonder if anybody out there has an interesting approach they would want to share. Does anybody have experience, for instance, oif using 'business games' for this sort of thing? Can you point to really good people on the trainers circuit?
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> Regards
> Graham
> Confused, Aberyswyth
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