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Rockwell's Guide to Project Management in the Humanities
Note: this guide is in the early stages. Much of what is here is in outline form or missing. I am writing it as I prepare to teach Project Management.
About the author, Geoffrey Rockwell and other contributors.
Introduction to Project Management in the Digital Humanities
- The philosophy of this guide so you will know if it is for you.
- How to use this guide without reading it all.
- Types of Digital Humanities Projects
- Types of Roles in Projects
- What you need to know as a new research assistant!
- What you need to know as a digital humanist.
- What you need to know if you are IT staff new to the digital humanities! This includes advice for programmers trying to figure out how to work with digital humanists.
- Introductions to Project Management is a list of links to different introductions to project management.
Starting Projects
- Writing grant proposals and other ways of getting support.
- Outline for a Project Proposal
- Estimating Projects
- Project Charters and those discussions you should have at the start
- Stories about starting projects
Running Projects
- Models for Communications and Management
- Meetings and More Meetings
Wrapping Projects Up
- Celebrating projects
- Reporting and publishing projects after they are done
- Burying projects so they don't haunt you
- Depositing your data and texts
- Giving credit
Common Methods and Practices
- Research Tactics for the Digital Humanities organizes various practices, methods and tactics around "how to" questions.
Project Management Tools
- List of tools that can be useful
- 15 Useful Project Management Tools is a good list from Smashing Magazine.
Managing Yourself and Others
- About Meetings
- What do you want to do with your life?
- How do you know when you are stressed?
- Types of digital humanities project roles
- What does it mean to be a project manager?
- Hiring people and bringing them on board
- Collaboration in the humanities
- General issues around academia and the digital humanities
Information for starting a business in Canada
Ten steps for starting a business by Michael Burden
Management Styles and Philosophies
- Readings about Management
- About management philosophies
- A list of management philosophies that you may not have thought about.
- Not managing
What can go wrong (and how to learn from mistakes)
Examples of Projects and their Management
Useful Lists
As described in the The philosophy of this guide, much of the content is structured as lists you can dip into.
- Why Lists explains my rationale for using lists and how you might use them.
- The list of lists is an index to the list and a possible starting place.
- A list of what has to be done of which there is too much.
--GeoffreyRockwell 06:07, 20 January 2011 (UTC)