Defining Research Projects and Deliverables
Traditional project management approaches often don’t work for many research projects. By their nature, research projects involve novel tasks with uncertain resource requirements.
Course Objectives
This one-day workshop has been designed to introduce participants to a range of tools and techniques to help them understand:
- The differences between research project management and traditional project management
- How project management relates to other disciplines
- The unique body of project management knowledge, project maturity and project gate models
- Project scope and how to determine what is in and out of scope
- How scope relates to work breakdown structures and project deliverables
- Common approaches to developing work breakdown structures
- Key issues in defining research project scheduling
- How to manage resources and develop a responsibility matrix
- How to manage research project scheduling and project tradeoffs
- The use of stakeholder analysis and project health checklists to develop extended stakeholder deliverables beyond higher order scope
- Cost and time project success measures
Who should attend
This course is for anyone who undertakes research. This includes researchers, research project
managers, research project administrators, new business and commercialisation managers working for publicly or privately funded CRC’s, CCRE’s, research institutes, universities, hospitals, new technology start-ups and spin-out companies, biotech companies and technology incubators.
Course Presenter
Pat Foley is an Associate Professor with Melbourne Consulting & Custom Programse at the University of Melbourne. He has been a consultant to many of Australia’s leading organisations. He was the principal consultant for the Australian Human Resource Benchmarking Program. He has constructed benchmarking systems, in both the HR function and non- HR areas; such as customer service, employee engagement, organisational learning processes, competitive benchmarking and has also led International benchmarking projects. Pat has conducted numerous executive team development workshops, senior management strategy reviews and helped organisations construct strategy maps and performance measurement systems.
Course Fee
2008 fees: $595 + GST per person
Course Structure
One-day intensive course, usually taught from 9am-5pm.
Delivery Dates
2008 dates to be confirmed.
Course Brochure
This is currently being updated and will be available shortly.
Application Process
To apply for this course, please contact Elise Strande on (03) 9810 3136 or email e.strande@mccp.unimelb.edu.au