As part of the Water Institute's WaterLeadership training series, Nancy Goucher, Knowledge Mobilization Specialist at the Water Institute, and Wendy Hague and Pam Fluttert with the University of Waterloo’s Project Management Office, will present "Project Management Skills for Students."
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Description: This session will teach participants how to apply project management tools and strategies to their research program through a knowledge mobilization lens. Incorporating knowledge mobilization into research can take extra time and planning. It can also make a project more complex by engaging with more partners. Professional project managers are used to managing complex, multi-faceted projects with multiple interests, stakeholders and goals. In this webinar, you will hear from Wendy Hague and Pam Fluttert with the University of Waterloo’s Project Management Office, who will share ideas on what graduate students can learn from project managers to ease the stress of graduate work, make knowledge mobilization seem more feasible and meet your research goals on time.
Learning objectives:
- Learn how to define clear goals, stick to your timelines and better manage expectations of your supervisor and partners
- Learn about specific project management techniques that can help researchers manage time, scope, and people such as developing a Project Charter, utilizing a Triple Constraint Framework and applying the Work Breakdown Structure tool
Online Resources:
Download the participant workbook, Project Management Skills for Students (Author: Wendy Hague and Pam Fluttert with the University of Waterloo’s Project Management Office, Information Systems & Technology (IST)
Download the Identify your Audience worksheet
Registration
Registration is required to join the live webinar. Please register here using your @uwaterloo.ca email address. Note that the webinar is only open to University of Waterloo students, faculty and staff.
The University of Waterloo is committed to achieving barrier-free accessibility for persons with disabilities who are visiting, studying or working at Waterloo. If you have questions concerning access or wish to request accommodations for this event, please contact Allie Dusome (adusome@uwaterloo.ca)