The Nuts and Bolts of Project Management

The BioInspired Graduate & Postdoctoral Professional Development Program is excited to announce the launch of the Spring 2025 workshop series on Project Management, a valuable set of skills for scientists and engineers in the lab or any professional setting. Scientists and engineers routinely use aspects of project management without even realizing it, but these skillsets can be honed and used intentionally to enhance the successful execution of experiments, writing projects, and collaborative efforts. Besides helping you more thoughtfully navigate your current projects at Syracuse, project management is an important, marketable skillset for future employment.

In this workshop, we will dive into the basics of project management by examining the formal structures of project management. The Project Management Institute defines five broad stages of a project lifecycle: Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring, and Closure. We will discuss these stages and introduce some of the language professional project managers use to describe them. We will also discuss strategies and share tools for tackling each step as a scientific trainee juggling multiple projects and the expectations of an advisor/mentor.

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