ABSTRACT
Project management texts imply that there is a clear distinction between each phase of a project, that a project progresses distinctively from one phase to another and that the tasks in each phase are clearly defined. The project will also have a customer, who may be the sponsor of the research or the team itself if they initiated the research and applied for a grant to conduct the project. In addition to a dedicated contact person, the sponsor may set up a Steering Committee. At the implementation stage of the project, reaching peers through presentations of interim findings at workshops, seminars and conferences is a common course of action. Classic time management states that one should first analyse how time is spent on different tasks. Monitoring, controlling and directing are the central and predominant activities of the implementation stage and the main task of the project manager/principal investigator.
