project management

BH TIG Week: Go with the Flow by Elizabeth Oyer

Hello! I am Elizabeth Oyer, President of EvalSolutions, Inc. where I provide program evaluation and business consulting services. Over the last 5 years, business intelligence (BI) reporting has become commonly used to support users’ interactions with their data in a more immediate, individualized way. In my journey as a consultant, I have learned how to …

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BH TIG Week: Let’s Meet Up! by Elizabeth Oyer

Hello! I am Elizabeth Oyer, President of EvalSolutions, Inc. where I provide program evaluation and business consulting services. In 2021, I re-organized my business with a concerted effort around modernizing my networking strategies to expand my business. Since 2001, I have provided evaluation consulting and I wanted to translate my skills into new service lines for …

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BH TIG Week: On that Note by Elizabeth Oyer

Hello! I am Elizabeth Oyer, President of EvalSolutions, Inc. where I provide program evaluation and business consulting services.  Regardless of the type of evaluation work we do, project management is a necessary evil. At this stage of my work, I have been trained in and adopted a range of philosophies, strategies, and technologies to organize …

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STEM TIG Week: Parallels of Evaluation and Project Management by Robin Taylor, Erin Burr, and Ann Martin

We’re Robin Taylor (RTRES Consulting), Erin Burr (ORAU), and Ann Martin (ORAU) and over the years our evaluation work has focused on STEM education and workforce development programs. Each of us have familiarity with project management (PM) and have worked on numerous projects that have required adjustment of our evaluation approaches, PM styles, and the …

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Labor Day Week: The Work of Keeping a Project Moving by Nora Douglas

Hello! My name is Nora E. Douglas and I am a consultant at CNM Connect where we provide evaluation and capacity building services to nonprofit organizations. One of the common challenges I consistently face is managing projects and keeping them moving towards a final deliverable. I have found the following four tips to be useful in the successful …

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Using Project Management Tools to Visualize Evaluation Processes by Anne Vo and Jacob Schreiber

Hello! We are Anne Vo (Associate Director of Evaluation) and Jacob Schreiber (Evaluation Assistant) from the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Anne oversees the Keck Evaluation, Institutional Research, and Assessment (KEIRA) Office and Jacob supports survey data collection efforts at the school. We survey hundreds of students every week about their curricular experiences as …

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Linking Management and Evaluation Practice: Using Project Schedules as an Evaluation Logic Model by Jonny Morell

Hi. My name is Jonny Morell. I’m Director of Evaluation at Syntek Technologies, a Principal at 4.669… Evaluation and Planning, and editor of Evaluation and Program Planning. I recently did an evaluation that made me realize a few things. 1) Project timelines are a type of logic model. After all, they identify program activities and …

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Best of aea365 week: Mike Morris on Managing Relationships with Stakeholders

My name is Mike Morris and I’m Professor of Psychology at the University of New Haven, where I direct the Master’s Program in Community Psychology. My research focuses on ethical issues in evaluation, and I am an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Evaluation. The best book I’ve ever read for managing my relationships with …

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Pei-Pei Lei on Using InfoPath as a Project Management/Data Collection Tool

Hi, my name is Pei-Pei Lei. I’m a survey research analyst in the Center for Health Policy and Research’s Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. As colleagues Michelle Landry and Judy Savageau pointed out in their earlier AEA365 blog on Project Management, Microsoft Office provides some options for no/low cost …

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MA PCMH Eval Week: Valerie Konar on Getting Evaluation Results through Project Management

Hello. I am Valerie Konar from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Health Policy and Research and Project Manager for the evaluation of the Massachusetts Patient-Centered Medical Home Initiative. I’d like to share some tips about managing a complex multi-stakeholder project. When the project began, these three groups operated in separate silos: When …

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