Project Management for Doctors

Vaikunthan RajaratnamMBBS,FRCS,Dip Hand Surgery,MBA,PGCertMedEd,FHEA

Consultant Hand Surgeon

Areas of application

• Research

• Audit

• Article writing

• Book writing

• Service development

• Private practice establishment

Project Management

• the discipline of planning, organizing, securing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives

• A project is a temporary endeavor, having a defined beginning and end (usually constrained by date, but can be by funding or deliverables),

Value of Project Management

• Initiating - you formulate your “contract”

• Planning - gain a better understanding of what needs to

be done • Closing – achieve your target

“In preparing for battle, I have always found that

plans are useless, but planning is indispensable”

– Eisenhower

Initiation

• Strategy - WHAT – you are going to do

• Tactics HOW – you are going to do it, including parameters

• Objective/Goal - WHY – Measurable benefit.

Project Objective

• Focus effort and resources

• Pre execution discussions

• Gets consensus from stakeholders and team on task, responsibilities and targets

Planning

Plan and schedule for– Critical task identification and allocation– Schedule– Progress charting– Communication

Gantt Chart

•  bar chart that illustrates a project schedule.

• the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements of a project.

• Terminal and summary elements comprise the work breakdown structure - WBS

Tracking Progress

• Gives you visibility of progress

• Binary outcome (done- Y or N)

• Scope Management - does the change help towards objective

Work Breakdown Structure WBS STEP 1: Formulation your research question

STEP 2: Getting background information and literature search

STEP 3: Refine your search terms

STEP 4: Consider your resource databases and perform literature review

STEP 5: Design Methodology

STEP 6: Design experiment

STEP 7: Collect and sort data

STEP 8: Analyse your data

STEP 9: Organize and write

STEP 10: Compose your bibliography

100 cases in Hand Surgery

extract from handsurgeryman

ual.com

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Start Date End Date Progress Assigned

Concept Development 01/05/2011 15/05/2011 Done Raj

Content Structure 12/05/2011 20/05/2011 In progress Chris develop the content tree based on Greens Operative Hand Surgery

Collate all cases from website 15/05/2011 21/05/2011 not done Malek and Louise log and download all cases form website and collate and index to content tree

Assign cases to authors 22/05/2011 23/05/2011 not done Raj assign by seniority ands skill set

Develop content for each case 24/05/2011 15/06/2011 not done Allassigned authors will develop draft content for each case with literature review

Review and finalise 16/06/2011 23/06/2011 In progress Raj

Publisher engagement 12/05/2011 30/06/2011 In progress Raj Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB.

Balance Quadrant

Scope Quality

Time Cost

Closing

Acknowledging everything has been delivered

Deliver

Move on