olegil@samfundet.no writes:
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I agree with most of what Olegil said there, very good grasp of both PM and reality in my opinion, with one small proviso, rather than jumping in and writing a PHP/Web based Project management system, perhaps the first task of the head honcho (one of many I assure you) is to get someone to evaluate existing systems (much easier to install) first before jumping into writing our own.
As a small point (maybe not so small) in my favour as head honcho (perhaps ;-) ) Whilst I currently work for The Open University, I have also handed my notice in and will be leaving in 2 months time (I dont plan on doing a whole lot of work here in that time without the persuasion of a VERY big stick - I hate 3 month contracts), post that I will be contracting out for 2 days per week (at more than my original salary so no worries there) so will initially have plenty of time to spend on the project management when its really needed.
On top of this to expand on my previous statement, I have had 4 years Managing staff and projects here at the university (including formal training in Project Management techniques), as well as Server support (Solaris, Linux, Windows), PHP scripting and Mysql.
Mark