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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! See also Rockwell's Research Assistant Guide.
- What you need to know as a digital humanist to manage DH projects.
- 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.
- Everything Else You Should Read is a list of things to read or links to other lists.
- Project Management Course
Starting Projects
- Getting good advice
- Planning Digital Humanities Research Projects
- Learning about the digital humanities
- Writing grant proposals and other ways of getting support.
- Outline for a Project Proposal
- Presenting Ideas
- Estimating Projects
- Project Charters and those discussions you should have at the start
- Stories about starting projects
- Hiring People
Running Projects
- Models for Communications and Management
- Meetings and More Meetings
- Working with Students on projects
- Meetings and a Wiki to manage a project is a fairly lightweight way of managing a project
Wrapping Projects Up
- Thinking about the end of projects. How do you know when its done?
- 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
- Long Term Preservation and Curation
Common Methods and Practices
- Introduction to Research Methods in the digital humanities.
- Taxonomy of methods in the digital humanities is a list of methods and practices of interest to the digital humanities.
- Research Methods for the Digital Humanities presents various useful methods and tactics organized by category.
- Digital Humanities Practices organizes various useful practices and techniques around "how to" questions.
- Leadership is an ability associated with good managers that has also been questioned.
- Key Concepts in research methods.
- | Game Development Framework of questions and methods to consider when developing games.
Project Management Tools
- List of tools that can be useful for managing projects.
- 15 Useful Project Management Tools is a good list from Smashing Magazine.
- Basic Digital Humanities Technologies is a list of basic tools digital humanists should know.
- Advanced Tools is a list of some advanced tools useful for different projects.
Managing Yourself and Others
- Surviving graduate school
- About Meetings
- Procrastination
- Getting things done, even if not on time
- 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
- About management philosophies
- A list of management philosophies that you may not have thought about.
- Antimanagement patterns and other ways of not managing
- Readings about Management
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.
- Everything Else You Should Read lists readings, links and other bibliographies
- Other Stuff That Should Go Somewhere
--GeoffreyRockwell 06:07, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
