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Introduction to the management concerns of infrastructures

ESU Leipzig, 2016

Dr Jennifer Edmond

Trinity College Dublin

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There are things PRINCE 2 won’t tell you

PRojects IN Controlled Environments:

https://www.prince2.com/uk/prince2-

processes

PROJECT Management (assumes certain

edges)

- closed world

- no epistemic stake

- firmer goals

Edison (Data Science as a shared

element?), RITrain as an alternative models?

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Axes of Complexity

- Who does the RI bring together?

- Who is it built for? How fast are their requirements shifting?

- Who is building it? Team(s)? Institution(s)? How is this regulated?

- What expertise do you need? How do you recruit and develop these

people?

- What background knowledge do you need?

- Corporate expectations vs place of ‘professorware’

- What are the input elements?

- How many places do they need to be drawn from?

- How well funded are you?

- Who is in charge and what is their skill set?

- How is success or impact to be defined or measured? (PESTE, ouput,

citations or other?) Is it even clear?

- How much time do you have?

- What is expected of you after adjournment?

- Balance of people/things/data? Does this leave out the domain aspects?

- …

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Infrastructures are like Elephants

How do you define and communicate their

value?

How do you ensure they meet user needs?

How do you sustain them?

How do you develop them in a complex

environment?

How do you hire and retain the right people?

ONE BITE AT A TIME!

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RITrain

RItrain will develop a flagship training

programme enabling RIs across all domains to

gain expertise on governance, organisation,

financial and staff management, funding, IP,

service provision and outreach in an

international context. It will be designed and

delivered by experts who have set up and

managed RIs from concept to maturity. We will

define competencies required by RIs through

consultation with their senior managers. The

resulting competency framework will underpin

a Bologna-compliant degree, the Master in

Research Infrastructure Management (RI Train

Poster)

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RITrain

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