Miller Krause – THATCamp Gainesville 2014 http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org April 24-25, 2014, at the University of Florida Fri, 10 Apr 2015 20:32:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Project Management Best Practices http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/2014/03/07/project-management-best-practices/ http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/2014/03/07/project-management-best-practices/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2014 21:50:09 +0000 http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/?p=192 Continue reading ]]>

Even simple projects in digital humanities involve complex decisions at many different levels of granularity, and managing those decisions adeptly is an art in and of itself. What encodings will work for your documents and keep working when conditions change? What editors will you use to prepare the documents? What metadata tagging and storage systems will bind those documents into collections? How will human users access the collections? What interfaces can other projects leverage to interact with this project? Even before those questions, what needs does the project address, what is its scope, what controls govern its progress, and how does it draw in and keep stakeholders? After the go-live date, how do you determine whether your project was a success? How do you keep everything in focus without losing track of either the details or the big picture? Managing a project means not just getting-it-done but providing for goal-setting, planning, guidance, and evaluation, and doing so without getting in the way of the research. What are the current best practices for managing a digital humanities project? What frameworks and tools help you define, meet, and evaluate your goals?

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