REALISE project - final case study

This document describes the REALISE project, its successes and challenges. There are transferability plans for sustainability.

e-Research Methods Theme 5 Project Management

The aims of this theme are: •to identify and develop personal attributes that enable postgraduate students to manage a research project to the correct standard and to complete it on time; •to enable postgraduate students to plan and organise their research project in order to successfully reach their full potential in their chosen postgraduate degree; •to enable postgraduate students to apply appropriate time management skills to the planning of their research project; •to identify study skills and resource management strategies that can benefit postgraduate students to effectively organise and research their chosen field; •to develop team work skills within the postgraduate cohort studying the Project Management core theme.

Case Study Envisioning and Engagement

This is a presentation that introduces the envisioning (set up) stage of a project or case study. it sets envisioning in a framework of software engineering and agile methodologies. The presentation also covers techniques for engaging with stakeholders in the domain of the project: building a co-designing team; information gathering; and the ethics of engagement. There is a short section on sprint planning and managing the project backlog (agile using a burndown chart.