Project Management
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, staff scientists, group leaders, expert scientists and expert technologists.
- This training is free for VIB participants.
- The course is not open for non-VIB participants.
- Note that upon no show without valid justification a fee of € 100 will be charged and you will be blacklisted for the VIB training program for 1 year. Click here for more information
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