http://jiscpm.jiscanswers.org daily 1 2009-05-27T11:09:10Z http://jiscpm.jiscanswers.org/questions/prioritising-projects <p>Is there a formula to help prioritize one project over another? Is there anything in PRINCE2 that could help? What are the main things to look at? What if more than one project has merit?</p> No publisher ambercane ambercane 2010-08-26T07:42:18Z Question http://jiscpm.jiscanswers.org/questions/what-are-your-top-tips-for-project-management <p>During the group discussion part of the Agile/PRINCE2 session (<a class="external-link" href="http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/3401">http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/3401</a>) at #jif10 each group was asked to give 5 project management tips and say which was their top tip.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> No publisher Christopher Brown Christopher Brown 2010-07-30T11:49:04Z Question http://jiscpm.jiscanswers.org/questions/what-are-the-most-important-tasks-to-address-in-starting-a-new-project <p>On hearing that you've recieved funding what project management activities and strategies do you address first and how do you deal with the team and stakeholders?</p> No publisher Andy McGregor Andy McGregor 2010-03-03T12:05:34Z Question http://jiscpm.jiscanswers.org/questions/how-do-you-catch-problems-early-in-a-project <p>What tools and techniques do you find to be effective?</p> No publisher Andy McGregor Andy McGregor 2010-03-03T15:18:52Z Question http://jiscpm.jiscanswers.org/questions/useful-project-management-tools <p>What project management tools are people using and find useful?</p> No publisher Andy McGregor Andy McGregor 2009-11-23T20:08:01Z Question http://jiscpm.jiscanswers.org/questions/evaluating-project-outputs <p>Hi Everyone,</p> <p>We are in the process of putting the final touches to&nbsp;our first learning resource - this is an interactive piece of work which takes&nbsp;users through the basic copyright considerations when handling multimedia items in a repository.</p> <p>In line with most of our project outputs we'd like to evaluate this learning object once it has been released into the wider world. We&nbsp;have decided to embed a mini feedback survey within the object itself&nbsp;and we'll also invite people to complete the feedback survey in our promotion of the object to various mailing lists etc.</p> <p>What I'd like to ask is for advice&nbsp;and suggestions for&nbsp;the content of our&nbsp;feedback survey. Has anyone got any good practice guidlines we can follow, any information on how to construct survey questions or examples of their own feedback surveys that&nbsp;we can take a look at? We are basically wanting to know&nbsp;what questions to ask and&nbsp;how to ask them.</p> <p>Any advice would be much&nbsp;appreciated!<br />Many thanks</p> <p>Jackie<br />Welsh Repository Network<br /><a href="http://www.wrn.aber.ac.uk/">http://www.wrn.aber.ac.uk/</a></p> No publisher Jackie Knowles Jackie Knowles #inf11 #jiscpm 2009-11-12T12:14:11Z Question http://jiscpm.jiscanswers.org/questions/ambiuous-terms-in-projects <p>One of the biggest project management headaches that I'm coming up against within the ERIS Project is the use of common terms across all the institutions that are participating in our work. (20 in our case)</p> <p>I'm looking to set a common definition for 'institutional repository' in the context of the <a href="http://eriscotland.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">ERIS Project</a>. It’s been the cause of some confusion in a number of areas so I'm hoping that we can come up with something that does the job across the board.</p> <p>For example, the beloved <a class="external-link" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository">Wikipedia describes Institutional Repository</a> as;</p> <p>‘<strong><em>would include materials such as research journal articles, before (preprints) and after (postprints) undergoing peer review, and digital versions of theses and dissertations, but it might also include other digital assets generated by normal academic life, such as administrative documents, course notes, or learning objects.'</em></strong></p> <p>Now, if we were to take this definition within the project, then we (potentially) are including thinking about repositories that are set up for learning objects, which I have always seen as being outside of the project scope. But not all institutions are equal, with each one having one, or many repositories with varying degrees of content etc.&nbsp;</p> <p>So, how have other projects dealt with this issue? Has it even been an issue??</p> <p>Would it be worth setting up a standard glossary of terms to be referred to in the tendering process ?? Ambiguity is the death of many a project.</p> No publisher James Toon James Toon #inf11 #jiscpm 2009-10-22T20:54:47Z Question http://jiscpm.jiscanswers.org/questions/is-there-any-advice-on-recruiting-for-jisc-projects No publisher Andy McGregor Andy McGregor 2009-10-09T10:03:19Z Question http://jiscpm.jiscanswers.org/questions/is-there-any-information-on-using-web-2-0-services-in-jisc-projects No publisher Andy McGregor Andy McGregor 2009-10-09T09:58:45Z Question