europeana cloud - wp6 project management
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Project management
Mary Rowlatt
MDR PartnersKickoff meeting, The Hague, Feb 2013
Jokes
• What do you call a sheep with no legs?
• A Cloud (boom boom!)
• Top 20 replies by programmers when their programs don’t work:
# 20. "That’s weird…"
# 19. "It’s never done that before."
# 18. "It worked yesterday."
# 16. "It must be a hardware problem.“
# 5. "Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?
# 3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"
# 1. And the Number One Reply by Programmers when their programs don’t work:
"I thought I fixed that."
Project governance and roles
Project Management Group – PC + PM
Day to day management under guidance of Executive Board
Executive Board
PC + PM + WP leaders. Monthly
Technical direction of the project, Review, amend work plan, Approve decisions, Financial and resource allocation
General Assembly
Strategic governance. Contractual issues
I rep each partner. Kick off meeting, plenary + as nec
Steering Group. PC + TEL Board – advice + general direction
Project governance and roles (2)
Content co-ordination group
Harmoise activity between WPs
PC+ PM + relevant WP leaders + others as required
Work Package Leaders
Responsible for the work of their WPs
Monitor, reporting, Pis, Risks
Partners
Various roles
Consortium Agreement
We will have one
Communication, QA, Risk management
Basecamp – email, file storage
Project website
Skype
Etc
QA of deliverables
Risk register
Keep in touch
Any problems, questions, worries
Let us (me) know
