This session will detail effective and proven project management concepts that can be applied to the management of SBIR, STTR, and other federal research grant projects.  Instructor is a Certified Project Management Professional.  

 

Winning, and performing well on, Federal R&D projects requires the proper planning, cost estimating and presentation of those projects in a proposal. Done properly, the results can be compelling and successful. Done wrong, the applicant can look unprepared and incapable of being a good use of the agencies limited funding resources, making an award much less likely. 

 

Short duration, low budget projects, like SBIR, can be especially dangerous since there is no time, or money, to recover from missteps/poor planning. Moreover, SBIR is where most firms begin developing the critical past-performance resumes that follow them for the life of the enterprise. 

 

This is no place for the uninitiated. This workshop will equip attendees with proven tools and skills to create locally-controllable, PM cultures -- mostly through proper planning and cost estimating in the proposal stages of the SBIR experience. This event is not just for winners who must now perform, but also for applicants who must impress proposal reviewers of a high probability of success in Phases I, II and III. Success is defined as "on-time, under-budget with good technical performance".  

 

Although completely applicable to projects of all sizes, both technical and non-technical, this workshop will employ examples of project planning for SBIR/STTR R&D proposals and the successful management of resulting awarded projects.

 

1:00PM-5:00PM

 

Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) Building

2214 Rock Hill Rd.

Classrooms 1&2

Herndon, VA 20170

 

Virginia-based tech firms: $75

Non Virginia-based tech firms: $95 

COMBO:  Register for BOTH the March 11 Accounting Compliance (morning) and Project Management for R&D Grant Recipients (afternoon) sessions:  $125

 

Robert Brooke, 703-689-3080, Robert.brooke@cit.org         

 

Hotel Suggestion:  the Hotel Sierra is located 2 minutes from CIT complex. Discounted rate available.