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Running Successful Projects
Philip Dembo
Members are volunteers
Long projects can suffer from staff turnover
Participants often geographically dispersed
Restricted budget, means
◦ Relies on donations
◦ More difficult to procure facilities
Challenges for Non-professional Projects
Certainty and control
Happy and empowered
people
Keys to a successful project
Having the right skills
Roles and responsibilities
Rules of participation
Appreciation
Team Building
Is Planning Important?
Be clear on scope, and don’t
change it too much
Know your deliverables first
Plan activities and resources
The tool of choice
Planning
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Excel
Realism is the key
Dependencies
Celebrate milestones
There is always an end
Share the plan
Planning
Hardware
Facilities
Staff
Knowing when you need your
money; staged finance
Budgeting
Having hard conversations the right
way
Email vs verbal communication
Meetings◦Be clear on purpose◦Have a clear agenda◦What’s the output
Managing your team
Risk Management
Change Management
Quality Management
Stakeholder Management
Have any of you ever done any of this stuff?
A flavour of other project management disciplines
What other challenges do
you face?
“Project Management Demystified”–
Geoff Reisse
“Project Management For Dummies”
PRINCE 2
Association of Project Managers
Where to find out more