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Project Managing Your PhD and Viva

Project Managing Your PhD and Viva. College of Human Science Graduate School Seminar. http://cambridgecriminologyphd.blogspot.com/2010/03/marriage-vs-phd-cartoon.html. INTRODUCTORY MATTER. Contents. Introduction Your Thesis, Your Problems? Some Principles of Project Management

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Project Managing Your PhD and Viva

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  1. Project Managing Your PhD and Viva College of Human Science Graduate School Seminar

  2. http://cambridgecriminologyphd.blogspot.com/2010/03/marriage-vs-phd-cartoon.htmlhttp://cambridgecriminologyphd.blogspot.com/2010/03/marriage-vs-phd-cartoon.html

  3. INTRODUCTORY MATTER

  4. Contents • Introduction • Your Thesis, Your Problems? • Some Principles of Project Management • Stages of the Thesis • Writing It Up – The Project • End Game • Tools for Project Management – MS Project

  5. Learning Objectives Project Management (PM) At the end of this workshop you will be able to: • Understand Concepts & Principles of Project Management • Develop a Realistic Thesis Project Plan • Apply PM Principles to Control, Monitor & Adjust Your Plan • Gain Familiarity with the Tools of PM

  6. What’s Not Covered • How to Write a Thesis • How to do Research • How to do a Literature Review • Content • How to Devise Methodology • How to Frame Research Question • But… • How to Proof Read & Print is

  7. So, what is project management?

  8. Defining Projects ‘Industrial’ Project • ‘A complex, nonroutine, one-time effort, limited by time, budget, resources and performance specifications designed to meet customer needs’ Larson 2006: 4 9

  9. Defining Projects ‘Industrial’ Project • ‘A complex, nonroutine, one-time effort, limited by time, budget, resources and performance specifications designed to meet customer needs’ Larson 2006: 4 10 10 10

  10. What is Project Management? ‘Industrial’ Project • ‘A complex, nonroutine, one-time effort, limited by time, budget, resources and performance specifications designed to meet customer needs’ Larson 2006: 4 $30m Movie €752m Dublin Port Tunnel 11 11 11

  11. What is Project Management? ‘Industrial’ Project • ‘A complex, nonroutine, one-time effort, limited by time, budget, resources and performance specifications designed to meet customer needs’ Larson 2006: 4 $30m Movie €752m Dublin Port Tunnel £800m St Pancras International 12 12 12

  12. What is Project Management? ‘Industrial’ Project Research (PhD) Project • ‘A complex, nonroutine, one-time effort, limited by time, budget, resources and performance specifications designed to meet customer needs’ • ‘A complex, nonroutine, one-time effort, limited by time, budget, resources and performance specifications’ involving: • Planning • organising • scheduling work activities: • to achieve: • a predeterminedqualitative outcome that communicates results of project activities’ Larson 2006: 4

  13. Has it any philosophical roots?

  14. What Philosophers Said “Concerning my Method … every thing is best understood by its constitutive causes; for as in a watch, or some such small engine, the matter, figure, and motion of the wheeles, cannot well be known, except it be taken in sunder, and viewed in parts…”

  15. What Philosophers Said “Concerning my Method … every thing is best understood by its constitutive causes; for as in a watch, or some such small engine, the matter, figure, and motion of the wheeles, cannot well be known, except it be taken in sunder, and viewed in parts…” (Thomas Hobbes, De Cive,1651,Preface) 16

  16. Analogy: Painting a House • Travelling Dublin to Montreal Wouldn’t You Just Love to Get Going? 17

  17. Analogy: Painting a House

  18. Critical Components of a Plan Cost Time

  19. Critical Components of a Plan Cost Time Quality 20

  20. Critical Components of a Plan Cost Time Quality Functionality 21

  21. Critical Components of a Plan Cost Time Quality Functionality Money 22

  22. So, why do it?

  23. So, Why Do it?

  24. Arguments Against • Projects are Industrial 25

  25. Arguments Against • Projects are Industrial • It’s Just a Piece of Research • Plans There Already 26

  26. Arguments Against • Projects are Industrial • It’s Just a Piece of Research • Plans There Already • PhD Now Structured • PhDs Don't Do PM.! 27

  27. Advantages • Psychological:

  28. Advantages • Psychological: • Mental Commitment to End Date

  29. Advantages • Psychological • Reality Check • Estimations Force Rethink on Feasibility 30

  30. Advantages • Psychological • Reality Check • Supervisor Buy In • Presentation of Plan Impresses! 31

  31. Advantages • Psychological • Reality Check • Supervisor Buy In • Flexible • PM Software Adapts to Changes 32

  32. Advantages • Psychological • Reality Check • Supervisor Buy In • Flexible • Electronic & Paper Format • Print/Enlarge to A3 and Pin Up! 33

  33. Disadvantages • ? • Thinking About it

  34. PROJECT STAGES?

  35. The Project Hierarchy

  36. Project Stages • Initiating: Choosing Project • Planning Phase: Design/Data Gathering • Execution Phase: Writing Up • Completion Phase: Handover • Completion II: Viva Project Managing Your Thesis

  37. Project Stages Information Technology Project Management, Fourth Edition 38

  38. Vision "I have a dream …”

  39. Initiation • Project Selection • Supervisor Selection • Interviews • Registration

  40. Design - The Planning Phase • Write/Re-write Research Question • Gather Data • Create Master Document: • Outline of Thesis Structure • Task List for MS Project

  41. Planning Phase – Research Question

  42. Planning Phase – Research Question 43

  43. Identify & Gather Relevant Literature Analyse Relevant Literature Design Survey Material Interview/Survey Respondents Analyse Survey/Interview Data Planning Phase – Gathering Data • Write/Rewrite Research Question • Gather Data 44

  44. Planning Phase – Create the Master Document • Write/Rewrite Research Question • Gather Data • Create Master Document 45

  45. Planning Phase – Create the Master Document • Write/Rewrite Research Question • Gather Data • Create Master Document Use MS Word Outlining Tool – Level 1 46 46

  46. Planning Phase – Create the Master Document • Write/Rewrite Research Question • Gather Data • Create Master Document Use MS Word Outlining Tool – Level 1 47 47 47

  47. Planning Phase – Create the Master Document • Write/Rewrite Research Question • Gather Data • Create Master Document Use MS Word Outlining Tool – Level 2 48 48 48

  48. Planning Phase – Create the Master Document • Write/Rewrite Research Question • Gather Data • Create Master Document Use MS Word Outlining Tool – Level 2 49 49

  49. Risk assessment

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