The workshop will be held in English and run for two days, on May 16 and 17, 2023.

It is difficult to meet job expectations in many fields outside academia without having mastered at least basic project management skills. While you have certainly gained some experience in managing your own research projects, projects in a corporate context are characterised by somewhat different requirements and challenges.

This workshop specifically aims to develop your project management skills for projects in industry. It is targeted at persons with no or little knowledge in project management and focusses on the classical project management approach. It introduces to basic tools and terms as Phase Planning, Workbreakdown Structure, Operation List and Gantt Diagram, includes case studies, IT-tools and a glimpse of new trends such as agile project management.

Major Topics of the workshop:

• Definition: What is a project?
• Starting and organizing projects
• Project planning by using basic tools (Workbreakdown Structure, Phases, Milestones, Gantt Diagram) 
• Identifying risks and targets.
• Calculation and control
• The bigger picture: New trends and approaches to project management.

Participants will be actively involved and work on different tasks throughout the workshop. The methods of the workshop allow to cooperate and actively contribute. There will be discussions in small groups, possibilities to apply the tools to case studies, visualization with „little scenes“, individual work, collaboration on Jamboards, surveys - and of course trainer input.

Please note: KHYS offers different courses with different focus according to project management.  

• Getting Started
• Project Management in Science and Technology
• Agile Projektmanagement
• Grundlagen des Projecektmanagements

This workshop is open to doctoral researchers and postdocs at KIT who are KHYS members with no or little knowledge in PM.

The workshop will be held in English and run for two days, on May 16 and 17, 2023.

Technical requirements: To participate in this workshop, you need a stable internet connection, a webcam and a microphone. Participants will receive further detailed information regarding the online-platform prior to the workshop.