1. 3.1 Project Management – time and resources, staying on track
Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci
Community Health Sciences & Surgery

2. Objectives By the end of this session, learners may be able to:
Identify common elements that comprise a project plan; and
Determine useful strategies and tools that can help you manage your project and stay on track.

3. Project details
Careful and thorough planning at the outset can ensure a project is based on a solid foundation.
Clearly identify the project scope, as well as roles and responsibilities of various project members – and key stakeholder buy-in.
Establish measurable success criteria, define a schedule of tasks to be accomplished, and budget targets.

4. Be the project manager … and leader
This means overseeing the tasks, as well as the team.

5. Managing the people Solicit stakeholder and team input
Cultivate positive team dynamics
Coach members
Keep lines of communication open
Be consistent, open, honest, and clear

6. Managing the tasks
Define and assess critical project milestones through the project life cycle
initiation, planning, execution, and closure
Examine deliverables and provide project updates
Maintain pertinent documentation
Manage risks before they become a problem
Avoid adding elements to a project without increasing the budget/resources and adding more time to the schedule
Evaluate the project by reviewing the process and taking the learnings away
Where were the project successes? Where were the project disappointments?

7. Elements to include Ethics Grants Recruitment
Developing and scheduling interventions
Data Analysis
Especially if an expert is to be hired for support
Report writing
Conference presentations

8. Project planning steps
List your activities and put them in order.
Estimate the time required.
Prepare a visual.
Adapted from:
1) The Research Whisperer. The blog is managed by Jonathan O'Donnell.  
2) The Project Agency. ©Ron Rosenhead and © Alan Chapman

9. Useful project management tools
Brainstorming
Fishbone diagrams
GANTT charts
Critical path analysis
Adapted from:
1) The Research Whisperer. The blog is managed by Jonathan O'Donnell.  
2) The Project Agency. ©Ron Rosenhead and © Alan Chapman

10. Summary
Planning and management includes both considering people and project tasks/elements.
Identify common elements of a project plan.
Useful strategies and tools that can help you manage your project and help you stay on track.

11. 2.1 Project management – time and resources, staying on track
Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci
Community Health Sciences & Surgery