Entendendo o Gerenciamento de Projetos
The 20 Golden Rules for R&T Project Manager
- Minimise the size of the Consortium
- There is never enough travel budget
- Raise management budget to 12% if more than 20 partners
- A successful project must be built on strong foundations. The bigger the project, the more detailed the official documents and Consortium Agreement
- Ensure that your company will remain involved in the project till the end
- The Co-ordinator must provide templates for every kind of document at the very beginning of the project
- All documents should be compliant to “working software standards” (in particular document templates)
- Circulate at the very beginning the organisation chart of the management team, along with a short presentation of each member
- Actual EC rules for Kick-Off meeting should be amended for large projects
- When writing a deliverable with multiple contributors, find an English native person to edit the final version
- Misunderstandings happen… Don’t hesitate to ask for clarification, in particular during meetings. Avoid being too subtle or too sarcastic!
- There is always one partner late…
- The management of information circulation is one of the most difficult tasks of the management team
- The co-ordinator should be empowered to solve defaulting partners problems
- Don’t forget internal reviews of deliverables in your budget estimation
- The cost of large projects review is higher than you think!
- There is nothing like real deadlines (the fixed Forum dates) to motivate research workers to deliver
- Include “Project Programme updates” in your tasks/deliverables
- A large European project is a good opportunity to gather Human Factors problems. Create a specific task for this in your project programme
- Post-mortem activities must not be underestimated and require a specific budget