Digital Partnerships Series: Partnership Management & Project Portfolio Management

Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 1:30 PM–2:30 PM, Library West Room 212

In the digital age, we need appropriate socio-technical approaches, tools, and methods for maintainability, sustainability, integration, and for maturing our work activities. Collaboration and partnerships are core to this work; yet, we need more supports for successful implementation and operations. While partnerships are essential to meet today’s challenges, creating and maintaining partnerships require new work activities and management processes that are best supported through project portfolio management, which includes managing projects, programs, programmatic activities, and partnerships.

In this session, we will review definitions and principles for partnership management and project portfolio management. We will review specific examples of digital partnerships at UF, and specific resources for partnerships and collaborative work. This is the first session in the Digital Partnerships Training Series. The training series is informed by ongoing work with research libraries with digital scholarship serving as a nexus point for research libraries as provider, partner, and pioneer.

At the conclusion of this one-hour session, participants will:

• Be able to define partnership management and project portfolio management.
• Be able to identify examples of governance models to support partnerships.
• Be able to share examples of document/resource types for defining and managing partnerships within project portfolio management.
• Be able to describe how equity relates to partnerships and partnership management.

Presenter: Laurie Taylor is Chair of the Digital Partnerships & Strategies Department in UF’s Libraries, where she provides leadership for partnerships with the Libraries across the university, regionally, nationally, and internationally. She works closely with colleagues to create and sustain supports for collaborations for building collections, community, and capacity, including for the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and LibraryPress@UF. Her work is geared towards enabling a culture of radical collaboration that values and supports diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Video conferencing is on request. Please email Danielle Sessions (dsessions@ufl.edu) if you will be attending the session via video conferencing.