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Why do a project as part of your study?
Education & Development

Why do a project as part of your study?

...project. Project planning and management skills are essential: Whatever your goals are, experiencing the process of planning, conducting, and reporting on a large project will help you. Project management skills are a key learning outcome. These skills are required for professional or managerial jobs, and they can also help you get through any large......
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Article 10 mins
The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU
Science, Maths & Technology

The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU

...project management skills to work as a consultant, first in financial technology, developing business software for investment companies, and then helping academics and innovators to link up with industries looking for solutions to innovation problems. I came full circle when I joined the OU, first as a research and enterprise manager in the Faculty of Science, Technology,...
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Article 10 mins
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...Project Manager whose task is to coordinate multilingual translation projects (this is a common pathway into the profession). You would also probably specialise in one or more specific types of translation. Some of the more lucrative areas include legal, medical, technical or financial translation but there are many, many possible areas of specialisation. Translation for...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?
Digital & Computing

How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?

...project manager can tell you that you cannot simultaneously optimize for everything. A device, program or project that tries to do everything for every client in every situation is bound to make major compromises in terms of usability or capability. The same is true with optimizing all elements of a public policy or other complex undertakings like improving cyber security...
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Article 5 mins
Three principles of a coaching approach
Money & Business

Three principles of a coaching approach

...project management. Or I could do something different, which is to start managing people more and perhaps get to the point where I have my own team, which, I think, sounds like something I might be interested in actually. COACH It's tough, though, isn't it, being at a crossroads. I mean, I remember myself when I was at a career crossroads. This is probably 20 years ago...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Developing (as) a research team
Education & Development

Developing (as) a research team

...projects led by women project managers’. Developing (as) a diverse team in equitable ways is an ongoing process. It is something which we need to pay attention to at every stage of a research project. We need to revisit and reflect on these issues of participation throughout. In many ways they begin before we begin and do not end when we end. Like all valuable...
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Article 15 mins
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...project teams, operational teams, self-managed (or self-directed) teams, and communities of practice. In practice, it is often the case that teams do not fall clearly into one type of team, but may combine elements of different types of team. While project teams and operational teams have been recognised for many years, self-managed teams are a relatively recent...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...project manager may consider a system successful if it comes to completion on time and in budget; a software developer may consider it successful if it contains good-quality code that runs well; an end-user may consider it successful if it helps them do their job effectively; and so on. We will consider stakeholders and their role in determining IT success or failure...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs