Managing projects and the people on them

This branch covers coordinating people and work to produce a document, divided by the level of coordination: running the project, working as a team and collaborating with individual colleagues. It leaves staff management and mentoring, regulatory submission management, patient partnerships, technical methods, detailed document review and freelance commercial terms to neighbouring branches.

• Running the project — scope, people, time and changes in client, editorial and publication-writing projects, including several projects at once
• Working as a team — collaborative writing, project leadership, communication across disciplines and cultures, geographical separation, generational differences and difficult conversations
• The colleagues a document passes through — working relationships with editors, disclosure managers, research coordinators, institutional offices, authors, subject matter experts, biostatisticians, health economists and creative teams