Project Management for Digital Projects

This session is a practical introduction to managing digital projects, from scoping, budgeting, staffing, and workflow creation. This session is designed to give participants knowledge and tools to apply to many different types of digital projects.

 Learning Outcomes

  • Cover the core concepts of project management, including terminology, tools, and methods.

  • Provide concrete step-by-step process for each project phase.

  • Share practical approaches, templates, and takeaways.

  • Participants will work individually or in a group on an activity designed to give them experience in planning a digital project.

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Your Instructor

Cristela Garcia-Spitz

Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of California, San Diego

Cristela Garcia-Spitz is the Digital Initiatives Librarian and Curator for the Tuzin Archive for Melanesian Anthropology at the UC San Diego Library, where she collaborates across areas of the library, campus, and community on projects to ensure the long-term accessibility, use, and preservation of the University’s unique collections available at library.ucsd.edu/dc. Previously, she worked at the Software Engineering Institute Library at Carnegie Mellon University where she gained a foundation in project management principles and methodologies.