Four reasons for project failure
There is a hard reality that everybody has to face: sometimes our performances are less than stellar, and we are not always destined for success.
Management & Governance, Operations
Management & Governance, Operations
Vendor management: Tips from an Insider
The current article will provide you with some tips to deal with vendors to help make your experience a positive one. It will focus on vendors providing services rather than products.
Leadership, Management & Governance, Operations
Motivating the project team
This article will provide you with some tips on how to motivate your team so that they deliver a good project.
Fundraising
Selling your idea to funders
This article will give you a potential template to follow and some tips on proposal writing.
Management & Governance, Operations
A summary of highlights: Project management overview
Project management is a mixture of strategy, methodology, communication, and leadership. If you have been following this series of articles, you will have become acquainted with many of the basic lessons in each of these areas.
Evaluation, Management & Governance, Operations
Project evaluation: Measurements of success
There are many, many methodologies for evaluating projects. A helpful tip is to realize that almost all of these resources will fall into one of three types.
Management & Governance, Operations
Project communications in one thousand words or less
Communication is fundamental to smoothly delivering a project. Not-for-profit projects often involve multiple stakeholders, several organizations, and several funders – making good communication even more critical.
Management & Governance, Operations
A hitchhiker’s guide to project change
This article revisits scope change by answering the question of how to manage change.
Management & Governance, Operations
Winds of change: Scope management
When the original scope of the project has drifted from its original focus, this is scope creep. It is time for some scope management.
Management & Governance, Operations
Planning for the unexpected: Managing project risks
Many concepts presented here build on a previous article by the same author. Read Bad things that can happen to good people: Identifying project risks for some more background.
