Hi,
Just a quick update on our idea of having a Project Managers' Forum.
Thank you to all the people who got back to us. We received over 30
positive responses, so clearly, there *is* interest, and it is worth
pursuing this further. Thank you also to the people who have expressed
interest in helping out with the organization of the session: we will
certainly take you up on that! We now need to work out some of the
practical details, and we will post an announcement to this list as soon
as we have more specific information.
Delphine & Jennifer
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Subject: DLF Project Managers' Forum
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:03:15 -0400
From: Vinopal Jennifer <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Vinopal Jennifer <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi,
At the DLF Forum in April, a few of us started having corridor
conversations about the idea of holding a DLF “Project Managers’
Forum” pre-conference, mirroring the “Developers’ Forum” that has
existed for many years (and that mostly targets programmers).
The idea would be to have a half day session (probably on Monday
morning) where DL project managers could share their experiences,
strategies, challenges, etc. It would be open to anyone who manages
DL projects (large or small), and more generally to anyone interested
in the topic of DL project management. Here are some examples of
issues we could talk about:
* How do you manage cultural differences among the project
participants (IT staff vs. catalogers vs. content specialists)? Acting
as a translator.
* How do you come up with a realistic time line?
* How do you control the “feature creep” in a project?
* Staffing: how do you ensure continuity despite grant-funded short-
term positions and natural staff turnover?
* Managing a portfolio of projects: how do you prioritize? how do you
control the impact of the projects on each other in terms of resource
allocation?
* Managing expectations: how do you communicate about time lines and
other issues with the various stake-holders of a projects (including
top library managers)
* Which software management tools have you found useful and not too
much of an overhead?
* How do you find project management training that relates to the (non
corporate) Digital Library environment.
* How do long-term maintenance issues and legacy projects affect your
operations?
* Are there specific initiatives that DLF could take to help DL
project managers?
So we would like to gage interest here. Who among you would
potentially consider attending such a session? (You can just reply to [log in to unmask]
with a quick "yes I would be interested". Of course if you have more
elaborate suggestions or comments, we would love to hear about them.)
Thanks,
Delphine Khanna (U. of Pennsylvania) and Jennifer Vinopal (NYU)
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Delphine Khanna, Digital Projects Librarian
University of Pennsylvania Library (http://www.library.upenn.edu)
ITaDD Department, Room 335W, 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel:215.573.9086 | Fax:215.898.0559 | Email:[log in to unmask]
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