Research Project Management

A research project can become a large undertaking, especially if it is a whole nation research project involving multiple field research assistants, data entry personnel and ministry partners. A Gantt Chart is one way to manage all the tasks associated with a large research project. A Gantt Chart template in Excel format is provided to manage a typical research project.

This spreadsheet provides categories to:

1. Define all the major objectives of the research project.
2. Manage all associated tasks
3. Track progress
4. Indicate Persons Responsible
5. Identify Necessary Resources
6. Estimate Cost
7. Estimated Time Required for each task
8. Start Date
9. Completion Date
10. Schedule the completion of each task.

This template can be easily modified for a specific project.

Besides this spreadsheet, there are commercially available Project Management Systems.
See the Wikipedia Article for further information about Gantt Charts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart.