Project management
Project management
17 & 18 March 2025
This program offers a pragmatic approach on project management, and will help you to:
- Gain more control over your project(s)
- Engage and activate stakeholders (including sponsors and international partners)
- Create a more realistic plan, using insights from both traditional and agile planning techniques
- Get more out of status meetings
- Keep the momentum of your project at a good pace
This program takes a flipped classroom approach:
Online learning - 6 weeks
During six weeks before our encounter, you will receive content and assignments on an online collaborative learning platform. These assignments will challenge you thinking about project management, and help you understand the theory behind managing a research project and engaging stakeholders.
You should need no more than 1/2 hour a week for these online assignments
Interactive workshops - 2 days
When we meet, the focus will be on application of the concepts on several real life research projects and on purposefully chosen cases. You will deepen your understanding of project leadership, including how to make a realistic plan for a research project (which typically contains a lot of unknowns), how to engage stakeholders, and how to keep track of progress and keep your sponsor satisfied.
Follow-up - 3 months
The following three months you will receive extra tips and inspiration via e-mail. On top of that, the online collaborative platform will remain active, so that you can continue to engage in conversation with your fellow trainees and with your trainer.
We are convinced that this program will provide you with an interesting learning journey, and that you will feel better equipped to lead your projects to the outcomes that you dream of.
VIB postdocs and last year PhD students, staff scientists, group leaders and experts.
- This training is open to VIB participants only.
- Registration fees will not be refunded in case of a no-show without timely notification or valid justification (medical attestation).
- You will not be admitted to any future VIB TRAINING course for 12 months following the no-show. For courses consisting of several days, we expect you to be present on all days. Click here for more information.
It all went very organic, the trainer picked in on the real life project examples that we gave. It really felt like she knew 200% what she was talking about and let this course pick in on the most urgent needs of the participants.
Participant edition spring 2024
Training was well structured and organized. Our trainer was well prepared, open for discussion and going away from the general flow, if people were bringing extra topics. Was also open to help each person individually even outside the scope/hours of the training. Very positive person and atmosphere.
Participant edition autumn 2023
The course is very flexible and dependent on the group. This makes it very applicable to people managing projects outside of research functions as well.
Participant edition spring 2022
Program
Online learning - 6 weeks
- Align on theory and concepts
- Share experiences and insights
- Learn about different methodologies and their benefits
- Tools for project management
Interactive workshops - 2 days
Starting up a project
- The project canvas
- Agreeing on benefits, objective and scope
- Engaging stakeholders from the start
- APPLICATION
Planning the project
- The traditional approach: 2 ways to define your milestones
- Assigning roles and estimating the resources needed
- Visualising timeline and constraints
- APPLICATION
- Taking into account risks
- The Agile way: turning the devil's triangle upside down
- The hybrid plan: way to go?
- APPLICATION
- Getting the buy-in from partners and team members
Executing the project
- From the high level plan to execution: rolling wave plan
- Following up and reporting: the teamboard
- Time-outs and retrospectives
- APPLICATION
- Dealing with issues
- Keeping stakeholders on board at all times
- Having that difficult conversation
- APPLICATION
Closing the project
- Lessons learned
- Celebrating success
- Handing over the result
Follow-up - 3 months
- 10 principles for pragmatic project management
Practical info
17 March 2025 - 18 March 2025
Ghent - Bio-Accelerator Meeting Center
Technologiepark 21
9052 Zwijnaarde
Belgium
17 March 2025 - 18 March 2025
Ghent - Bio-Accelerator Meeting Center
From Ghent Sint-Pieters station, you can take a bus to Technologiepark. Please check Routeplanner De Lijn for schedules.
17 March 2025 - 18 March 2025
Ghent - Bio-Accelerator Meeting Center
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Shared bicycles:
Several providers are active in the area.
Take a look at their platforms:
- Indigo Weel Pro app
- Bluebike
- DOTT
- BOLT eBikes
- Donkey Republic
There are also some public bicycle pumps at the park.
17 March 2025 - 18 March 2025
Ghent - Bio-Accelerator Meeting Center
There is only one entrance to Technologiepark. At the entrance, please take a ticket - Parking is only allowed in regular parking spots (for instance in front of the building) and in the new parking tower. Parking alongside the roads or in other places where there is no regular parking is prohibited.
17 March 2025 - 18 March 2025
Ghent - Bio-Accelerator Meeting Center
+32 9 328 19 02
info@bio-accelerator.com
Room Marc van Montagu