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Managing Projects and Teams (CLRS90012)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2017
Overview
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Effective management is essential to delivering projects that run on time and on budget and involves managing all resources available to maximise results from the available resources. It is the skill of directing the complex and often problematic interaction of people and events that occur during a research project. Few projects run smoothly, and unforeseen problems are common but rarely fatal to research activities. Good planning and appropriate responses to these problems can overcome what seem like enormous obstacles, as well as the common pitfalls that can catch out even the most experienced researchers and managers.
Intended learning outcomes
Topics covered include:
- Designing, planning and managing projects
- Resource management, including insourcing and outsourcing
- Project budget management
- Delivering outcomes
- Common pitfalls to successful trial implementation
- Running clinical trial, analysing and interpreting data
- Complying with regulations
- Key stakeholder management and reporting
- Managing project teams
- Team work styles
- Managing and rewarding team performance
- Managing conflict
Generic skills
Students who successfully complete this subject should be able to:
- Develop project plans for clinical trials that are focussed on delivering outcomes
- Understand the issues around resource management and how to plan the most effective use of resources available
- Understand the requirements for managing budgets over the life of the project
- Develop strategies for key stakeholder management and reporting
- Use the best approaches to analysing and interpreting data
- Identify potential pitfalls to successful trial implementation
- Understand different work styles and preferences and how to use this knowledge to create high performing teams
- Develop and implement processes for performance management
Last updated: 3 November 2022