This week’s topics
Project Best Practices and Strategic Frameworks for DBA Delivery
- Project management maturity models and personal productivity systems
- Knowledge management and digital artifact preservation
- Synthesising theoretical rigour with actionable practice
- Actionable recommendations for dissertation completion and viva defence
- Preparing For Your Dissertation Defense (Viva Voce): 9 Questions You MUST Be Ready For (+ Examples)
- The Project Management Body of Knowledge
- Project Delivery | PM in a Nutshell: Deliver Your Project
What you will be able to do
- 4.2 Identify best practices related to project management.
- 4.3 Provide recommendations for successful delivery of projects.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: identify best practices related to project management.
Study materials
Videos
- Preparing For Your Dissertation Defense (Viva Voce): 9 Questions You MUST Be Ready For (+ Examples) · YouTube · Grad Coach · 49 min · for registered students
- The Project Management Body of Knowledge · YouTube · Galton College · 24 min · for registered students
- Project Delivery | PM in a Nutshell: Deliver Your Project · YouTube · Online PM Courses - Mike Clayton · 12 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Foundations of Information Systems, ch. 9: Information Systems Project Management · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 339–382 · for registered students
- Why Do Management Practices Differ across Firms and Countries? · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
- The Sourcing Playbook (UK Government Commercial Function) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance; 78 pages · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
