europeana cloud - wp6 project management

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

Thank you

Mary Rowlatt

Emary.rowlatt@mdrpartners.com

Thank you

Mary Rowlatt

Emary.rowlatt@mdrpartners.com