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Project Management as a Discipline in its own right

Project Management as a Discipline in its own right. Steve Armstrong Faculty of Mathematics and Computing The Open University. s.armstrong@open.ac.uk. Context. some history where do I step in? where do I want to go with the subject? what do you think?. A project manager.

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Project Management as a Discipline in its own right

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  1. Project Management as a Discipline in its own right Steve Armstrong Faculty of Mathematics and Computing The Open University s.armstrong@open.ac.uk

  2. Context • some history • where do I step in? • where do I want to go with the subject? • what do you think?

  3. A project manager • has certain skills • knowledge, experience and background • has a number of resources “…with people and things to talk about” (Lennon and MaCartney) • works in a given context that influences the possibilities and outcome • e.g. “time and tide wait for no man”

  4. A discipline? • exercising control over group of people • a form of physical, mental or moral training • a branch of instruction or learning • magic words: “training” and “learning” implychange

  5. Raising the profile of project management • promote teaching and research in the subject • the profession and its practitioners • guarding the provision of training and education • standards and their quality • promote research into the body of knowledge • and its relation to practice

  6. A Network of Excellence • for the development of the management of projects (PROMNET) • structured around centres of excellence • integration through a dedicated panel or “Senate” • each centre includes topics from the APM’s BoK

  7. Centres of Excellence • foundation knowledge • management of projects • management of business • environment • management of change • personal development • project performance • project resources

  8. How would centres work? • collect and co-ordinate information on a related topic • use results from research and development to build on a topic • generate views on the required competency for a topic

  9. Can’t operate in isolation • integrative node e.g. organizational behaviour and culture • special forum for economic sectors e.g. banking, construction and technology • forum for professional bodies e.g. IEE, BCS and CIMA • forum for academic and educational co-operation

  10. Trial research topics • funding • a current topic • supply chains • a current topic in software engineering • emotional literacy • inspired by dispute resolution

  11. Closing remarks • the link between teaching and research • the next call for EU funded projects (for Framework 6 see http://europa.eu.int/comm/research) • next steps • comments welcome

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