Project Management

Posted on March 27, 2012 by lweakly2

If anyone would like to talk about project management, I would love to be in on that conversation. I would like to hear about what has worked successfully and what hasn’t.

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About lweakly2

I have worked on a number of Digital Humanities projects at the University of Nebraska in the areas of History, English, Modern Languages, and Anthropology. Projects I have been involved with include The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Railroads and the Making of Modern America, the National Digital Newspaper Project and the Omaha Ponca Digital Dictionary. I work primarily with metadata and am familiar with TEI, EAD, METS/ALTO, RDF, and Dublin Core.

4 Responses to Project Management

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  2. karindalziel says:
    March 28, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    I am always interested in project management, and in particular I am interested in hearing what other small groups do when there is no dedicated project manager. How do you set priorities/deadlines? How do you assign resources? It seems like lacking a dedicated project manager, whoever comes in and demands time ends up getting the most resources, and I would love to brainstorm ways around this.

  3. Melody Dworak says:
    March 28, 2012 at 3:44 pm

    I’m up for a project management discussion. I have some experience with micro-PM, as in, managing scopes of work in one area of larger projects, as well as managing continuous projects with concrete deadlines (*sigh* I miss that world). Questions I’d have for this session would be: what tools (Google docs, WorkFlowy etc.) do people use to manage personal and collaborative project goals? What roadblocks have people encountered when defining what the project needs are? What unexpected conflicts have risen that have set project goals back?

  4. Kathie Gossett says:
    March 31, 2012 at 12:28 am

    Yes, yes, yes! I’m actually working on a book chapter about this right now. I’ve been the PM for 2 DH projects and the UX team lead for another and I think there are some challenges working DH projects that are very unique to academia. We need to talk much more about this! Some of the sources I’m using in my chapter:

    www.foundhistory.org/2010/07/28/lessons-from-one-week-one-tool-part-1-project-management/#more-1087

    teleogistic.net/2010/07/unexpected-leadership-preliminary-thoughts-on-one-week-one-tool/

    www.thickbook.com/2010/10/project-management-bootcamp-at-thatcamp-pnw-2010/

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