D8.1 Project management and quality assurance plan

The deliverable D8.1 constitutes a guideline for all the partners of the PrismArch project, providing information about the general project organisation, information management, financial planning, as well as reporting and quality-assessment procedures. Its goal is a) to define explicitly the project management operation according to the consortium and grant agreement; b) concretize basic information allowing the financial follow-up; and c) stabilize rules to ensure a high-quality implementation. Towards this goal, D8.1 deals with all practical aspects of the management of the project, namely: a) the project organization along with the allocation of responsibilities between partners for the different work packages and tasks, as well as b) the foreseen management bodies. Additionally, it presents the typical management information related to the application of templates and numbering of deliverables as all participants are bound to use the same templates for the project documents. The document provides guidelines to partners about deliverables, presentations, internal documents etc. while it also describes the collaboration tools that have been set-up for internal communication, data and code sharing and content management. It provides an overview of the financial data and planning; the resources allocated to the tasks and related reporting financial rules; and finally, it sets-up the rules and procedures to achieve all project milestones and deliverables of high quality