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Agile Games for Productive Teams

NancyProctor — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:08:59 +0000

MW2012

Dana Mitroff Silvers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA and David Hendee, Carbon Five, USA

http://www.sfmoma.org

Program Item Reference:

Agile Games for Productive Teams

Mini-workshop:Drop-In Clinic for Building Better Mobile Projects, From Processes toOutcomes

SandyGoldberg — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:13:51 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

mobile

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technology

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project management

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content

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organisational change

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discussion

Abstract:

The leaders of this workshop have worked across museums of every kind in theUS and the UK, helping client museums develop frameworks for technology,experience design, and content in mobile projects. This mini-workshop will runas a drop-in clinic; bring your mobile “aches and pains,” whether you’re part ofa mobile project team, or looking for insights into the process. The leaders willhelp diagnose problems and propose prescriptions for healthier processes andoutcomes.

In this clinic, you’ll learn how to build healthy habits for mobile projectmanagement, technological decisions, and for stretching creative muscles.The mini-workshop leaders will share their experiences, tips and tricks forgetting to “YES” from various stakeholders, collaborators and different museumdepartments, and steering them towards more creative outcomes than they mighthave envisioned at the project’s inception.

Type:

Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches

Mini-workshop: Drop-In Clinic for Building Better Mobile Projects, From Processes to Outcomes

Authors:

Sandy Goldberg

Lindsey Green

Alyson Webb

Digital project management 101: Getting your project off the starting blocks

charlotte.sexton — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:52:18 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

project management

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strategic planning

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project planning

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project delivery

Abstract:

This workshop will help you to get your project off to the right start. It will provide a toolkit for initiating a digital project in cultural organisations ensuring that you know the right questions to ask in order to get the answers you need. These approaches will be applicable to large or small-scale website development, multimedia and mobile projects. Working together we will troubleshoot your real-world examples and explore the best ways to tackle these issues in order to help you deliver a successful project. This is an opportunity to test out some of your ideas, share your concerns and benefit from the support and experience of the wider group.

The workshop will be led by Charlotte Sexton, Head of Digital Media at the National Gallery, UK and Carolyn Royston, Head of New Media at the Imperial War Museum, UK. We are both hugely experienced in digital project delivery and actively lead on new digital initiatives in our institutions. We have delivered a range of web and multimedia projects in our individual organisations and are responsible for the long-term delivery of strategic digital projects.

This is not a technology workshop, the focus is to provide some practical advice on how best to initiate a digital project in order to give you a solid foundation to delivery.

By the end of this workshop you will be armed with a guide to all the key questions you should be asking, some strategies to deal with common issues that will arise, and confidence in your ability to get your project off to a great start.

Participants that would benefit from this workshop include: those who are new to managing a digital project, or are in organisations that do not have the backing of large digital teams.

Type:

Workshop - full or half day

Digital project management 101: Getting your project off the starting blocks

Authors:

Charlotte Sexton

Carolyn Royston

Navigating the bumpy road: a tactical approach to delivering the digital strategy

charlotte.sexton — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:37:54 +0000

MW2012

Published Paper:

Navigating The Bumpy Road: A Tactical Approach To Delivering A Digital Strategy

Keywords:

strategy

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project management

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strategic planning

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sustainability

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organisational change

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delivery

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This paper will discuss the importance and impact of developing, delivering and sustaining a digital strategy within a cultural organisation. It will use recent experiences at The National Gallery, UK and the Imperial War Museum (IWM), UK to demonstrate why having a strategy is so fundamental to the long-term success of digital development in organisations, and how it can be used as a driver to shape direction for a strategic programme of work that is aligned with organisational needs and priorities.

Both the National Gallery and the IWM are going through periods of organisational change, including reassessing the role and importance of digital in delivering the organisations’ goals. Despite being very different organisations in regard to structure, size and type of collections, there are surprisingly many similarities in aspirations and approach to digital engagement. This paper will provide readers with the fundamental principles of developing a strategy, how to deploy it and embed it for long-term sustainability. It will illustrate these principles by incorporating examples from both institutions throughout.

The paper will focus on the following questions:

Why is a digital strategy needed?

exploring the internal and external drivers
importance of putting digital at the centre of the organisations’ thinking

How to move from theory to practice to deliver digital programmes?

setting priorities for a programme of work
measures of success

How to keep the strategy alive and evolving?

embedding digital across the organisation
evaluating progress/success
revisiting and refining the strategy

The principles detailed in this paper and the illustrative practical examples from the National Gallery and Imperial War Museum will be of benefit to any organisation, large or small. It will demonstrate that a digital strategy is more than just a written document. A digital strategy provides a vision and action plan that is a framework and focus for all digital activity across an organisation. By placing digital at the heart of the institution, it can be a genuine driver for change.

Target Audience:
Senior staff, managers, consultants - those interested in strategic planning and project delivery.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Digital strategy

Authors:

Charlotte Sexton

Carolyn Royston

Web-Supported Collaborations: Building, Evaluating, and Sustaining a Museum Partnership Network

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:58 +0000

Koepfler, J., Sala S., & McLain B. (2010). Web-Supported Collaborations: Building, Evaluating, and Sustaining a Museum Partnership Network. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.

How to manage and build a web collections search project in a museum

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:49 +0000

Morgan, R. (2010). How to manage and build a web collections search project in a museum. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.