Project Management Techniques: talk and discussion
Pam Chambers, Capita Education Services
Joint meeting with Proms-G Scotland
Wednesday 20th November 2002, 6:30 pm
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society, 36 York Place, Edinburgh
The talk will focus on the practical application of project management
techniques in a 3 year project to implement a Student Management Information
System (SIS) within a new higher education institution. The SIS is a
business-critical application because the output from the system provides the
returns to the statutory bodies responsible for funding the institutions and
for student awards. The system also had to be implemented within rigid
time-frames to meet deadlines dictated by the Academic calendar. This
implementation of the SIS involved the convergence of 13 autonomous Academic
Partners onto a single software system. The Prince project management
methodology was used, and during the course of the project many lessons were
learnt about effectively controlling and monitoring projects highly subject to
change, managing project scope and system and process convergence. The project
team was also dispersed over numerous locations which affected team management
and project organisation.
Pam Chambers is currently the Project Manager for Capita Education Services
implementing Information Systems in Scotland for further and higher education
institutions. Previously, she was the project manager for UHI Millennium
Institute. She has the ISEB Certificate in Project Management and is a PRINCE
2 registered practitioner.
Contact details: Pam Chambers, Project Manager, Capita Education Services,
pam.chambers@capitafhe.co.uk
Discussion
After the short talk there will be an opportunity break out into two or
three smaller groups depending on numbers attending the talk.
Three members of the Proms-G Scotland group will be available to chair each
of the break out groups (Jamie Thin, Mike Chad and Frank Waterworth) and each
group will have one specific question to discuss pertinent to the content of
Pam's talk. |
