Study Day: "SUCCESS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT" - an
informative and practical workshop for those wanting to improve their project
management skills.
Libraries
for Nursing (LfN), Information for Management in
Healthcare (IFMH) and
Health
Libraries Group (HLG) ran a joint study day at the University of Salford
in January 2008:
"SUCCESS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT" - an informative and practical workshop for
those wanting to improve their project management skills
The study day was aimed at information professionals from the health and social care sectors, this
study day provides an opportunity for developing project management skills for
both large and small projects. Presentations from experts in the field followed
by practical parallel workshops enabled delegates to explore key aspects of
this challenging field.
Presentations:
Introduction - Managing Projects overview - Paul
Waters, University of Salford
What are projects and why do we have them? What is project management and why is
it important? This presentation will focus on these questions by focussing on
several key elements of successful projects and project management and
illustrate these with real life examples.
People and project management - Jacky Berry, British
Medical Association Library
People management skills are often overlooked in favour of technical skills in
project management. Jacky's presentation will concentrate on the people aspects
of project management including the skills required by the project manager to
manage a project, effective people management, team management and influencing
and communication skills.
TQM The Time Quality Money Approach - Andrew Booth, ScHARR
A TQM (Time-Quality-Money) Approach to Managing Projects in Health Care. Put
simply, successful project management involves a careful balancing act between
the competing demands of Time, Quality and Money. Attention to any one
particular ingredient at the expense of the other two leads to projects going
overtime, delivering suboptimal outcomes or going overbudget. Each of these
three ingredients has tools to help in planning and a corresponding inventory of
tools for monitoring and adjusting once the project is underway. These tools
form the basis of a project manager's toolkit. Andrew Booth will draw on
examples of projects in health care, from his own experience and that of others,
to illustrate the challenges and demands of successful project management.
Lessons learned from his presentation will feed into the afternoon's FOLIO
workshop on project management.
Prince2 - A theoretical introduction - Paul
Waters, University of Salford
The bits you need to know, or knowing your PID's from your Briefs!
PRINCE2 is a project management methodology. Adopting PRINCE2 as your chosen
approach can be a huge challenge. It uses its own language, it can appear
complex and bureaucratic, and it's only suited to large projects, isn't it?
This presentation shows how key elements of the PRINCE2 approach were
successfully used in a recent small project at the University of Salford and how
the various challenges were overcome.
Workshop descriptions:
People and project management - Jacky Berry, British Medical Association
Library
This workshop will concentrate on the people aspects of project management.
Using the BMA as a case study, the workshop will work towards producing the
perfect project management team including the project leader.
Planning a project - Anthea Sutton and Diana Papaioannou, ScHARR
Based on the successful FOLIO course on project management, this workshop will
involve the group examining aspects such as staffing, timing and costings then
working together to produce a project plan
Prince2 - Paul Waters, University of Salford
A practical session focussing on how to adopt the key aspects of PRINCE2 covered
in the above presentation.
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