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The largest portion of my job is devoted to project management and the daily administration of the various projects. Initially, when I started my occupation 5 years ago, I simply collected and processed motion capture data. Today, my job requires some level of project management. I am not a certified project management, however I have attended a couple of seminars about the topic. Currently I am leading 5 different projects, and project management enables stronger organization on these items individually.
Project management is a detailed step-by-step plan to control, monitor, and finalize an expected product. Large corporations utilize project managers to minimize cost and expedite processes.
Numerous project management aspects are hard to apply to clinical research. Yet clinical research parallels the corporate requirements of controlling, monitoring, and finalizing a research question.
For numerous primary investigators, their continued employment is manuscript development. This gives rise to the old research saying of “Publish or die.” Project management enables an investigator to streamline their resources into producing better quality manuscripts and avoid the “Publish or die curse.”
There are two native project management tools available from the KDE and Gnome DE. Korora MATE offers Planner by default. KDE has Calligra-plan and Gnome has Planner. Both programs are self-intuitive, however they are implemented differently visually. I used Planner previously, but I have moved onto using Calligra-plan. The sudden change is tied to the exported file type – Planner exports as a HTML format, while Calligra-plan exports as PDF.
The PDF export is an easier visual communication tool than a HTML file. Additionally, the developer documentation is stronger for Calligra-plan. Further details about Calligra-plan can be found here.
I prefer using the terminal when possible. For Korora, I enter:
sudo dnf install calligra-plan
For Ubuntu, you would enter:
sudo apt-get install calligra
After installing Calligra-plan, you can launch it from the terminal by entering calligra-plan. Alternatively you can launch the program via the MATE Applications launch menu. The program populates rather quickly on the laptop screen.
The two most important features for me are task listing and Gantt Charts. Next month, I will do a full tutorial on Calligra-plan for a current research project that I am starting at the end of July.
One program that I use exclusively for my own personal privacy is Dayplanner. This is a very simple application that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines. This is a simple tool that I like. My university utilizes the Gmail Eco-sphere, and consequently every person can look at my calendar. There are some events that I simply cannot list on my calendar for privacy reasons., I will go into detail about this later. You can install Dayplanner via:
sudo dnf install dayplanner
or
sudo apt-get install dayplanner
The main reason I use Dayplanner is for privacy for students and research participants. I am bound by government and educational standards in the United States. I cannot divulge who was involved in my clinical research projects. Plus I have to be cautious of the educational grading for numerous osteopath students that walk through my lab. If I have a screening event for my research, I can use a coded event within Dayplanner to record my interaction. If necessary, I can print off the event from the laptop. I do not mix my sensitive job information with my Google Calendar. I am afraid of any security breaches that will eventually affect Google. And I seriously doubt Dayplanner would be affected by a security breach. So, in a nutshell, I stay organized using these two programs for the clinical research.