Project Management

Most Bass Connections project teams appoint at least one person to serve as a project manager. This role is critical to the effective functioning of project teams and offers those serving in the role a great opportunity to gain experience managing complex projects (team leaders: see our tips on how to effectively integrate a project manager into your team).

This academic year, more than ever, each project manager’s efforts to coordinate his/her team’s goals, workflow, communication and resources will be crucial to their team’s success. We strongly encourage all project managers to spend some time reviewing the Bass Connections Tools for Team Success and the resources below which are designed to support Bass Connections project managers.

Project Management Short Course

Bass Connections, working with instructors at Duke Libraries and Duke Science & Society, run a Duke Graduate Academy short course on interdisciplinary project management. This course includes five sessions on the fundamentals of project management from defining a team’s scope and creating a project plan to managing resources, roles and workflow. Project managers can access the video modules for this course anytime to learn more about topics such as:

Project planning
Effective teamwork and communication
Delegating work
Organizing their team’s “stuff”
Troubleshooting common team challenges
Sharing their team’s research and communicating impact

If you would like to access the syllabus or other materials from this course, please email Meghan O'Neil.