Europeana Cloud Kick-Off Meeting, 5 March 2013, The Hague, The Netherlands. By Mary Rowlatt

1. Project management
Mary Rowlatt
MDR Partners
Kickoff meeting, The Hague, Feb 2013

3. Jokes
• What do you call a sheep with no legs?
• A Cloud (boom boom!)
• Top 20 replies by programmers when their programs
don’t work:
 # 20. "That’s weird…"
 # 19. "It’s never done that before."
 # 18. "It worked yesterday."
 # 16. "It must be a hardware problem.“
 # 5. "Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?
 # 3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"
 # 1. And the Number One Reply by Programmers when their
programs don’t work:
 "I thought I fixed that."

4. Project governance and roles
Project Management Group – PC + PM
 Day to day management under guidance of Executive Board
Executive Board
 PC + PM + WP leaders. Monthly
 Technical direction of the project, Review, amend work plan,
Approve decisions, Financial and resource allocation
General Assembly
 Strategic governance. Contractual issues
 I rep each partner. Kick off meeting, plenary + as nec
Steering Group. PC + TEL Board – advice + general direction

5. Project governance and roles (2)
Content co-ordination group
 Harmoise activity between WPs
 PC+ PM + relevant WP leaders + others as required
Work Package Leaders
Responsible for the work of their WPs
Monitor, reporting, Pis, Risks
Partners
Various roles

6. Consortium Agreement
We will have one

7. Communication, QA, Risk management
Basecamp – email, file storage
Project website
Skype
Etc
QA of deliverables
Risk register

8. Keep in touch
Any problems, questions, worries
 Let us (me) know

9. Thank you
Mary Rowlatt
Emary.rowlatt@mdrpartners.com

10. Thank you
Mary Rowlatt
Emary.rowlatt@mdrpartners.com