Project Management for NGOs - Prague

I was in Prague last week for the first time — amazing place, highly recommended (photos here). I was there to deliver project management training to a group of 20 APC managers, staff and board members, which happened, was well received, and may be repeated in other APC member countries as part of a larger capacity-building programme already in progress across the organisation. I'm extremely excited about the prospect of continuing work with the APC, and also of having the templates and other training materials I use translated into other languages (which I could/would then post as resources here).

And incidentally, I'm working on two things as a result of the training last week:

1. I'm converting all my templates and training materials to non-proprietary formats.
   I'll start with those that can simply be saved as-is in OpenOffice. Once done, I'll move on to those I need to recreate using other apps (like possibly dotProject to replace my Microsoft Project schedule template and I-don't-know-what for my Visio-based WBS template). I apologise for not having done this sooner!
2. I'm going back to basics in an attempt to develop a set of project management first principles.
   Yoda Max Wideman has already done this, but I need to go through a similar exercise myself, taking into account the specific "cultural ambience" of the NGO sector. I need to be better able to explain the differences between project management concepts and tools and the application of project management concepts and tools.

More on both of these points very soon!

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