Project management consulting and training for social change organisations.
Great week for the Greenpeace UK CMS project this week — Cristen Perks, Michael Silberman and Tom Lee of EchoDitto were here in London to take us through 2 intense days of strategic planning meetings which IMHO went really, really well and got all of us excited about the phases of work we're about to begin.
For me, our most interesting discussions were around the idea of trusted networks; that people trust their friends first, experts second and celebrities third. With this in mind, and with Drupal as our platform, how should we redesign the site; what tools can we provide Greenpeace UK supporters that would allow them to leverage their trusted networks to help Greenpeace UK achieve its goals?
We came up with some interesting ideas — more later as things progress :)
drupal, echoditto, greenpeace, importantprojects, nptech, projectmanagement, softwaredevelopment, strategy, tactics, technology
Just confirmed: I'll be delivering a 1 day project management process and methodology training to a group of APC leaders at their retreat next month in Prague! I've never been to Prague but have heard lots of good things — I'm quite excited :-)
As exciting as going to Prague will be working with members of the Association for Progressive Communications, an international network of civil society organisations using information and communications technologies to fight for social justice. Thanks, Rolf, for recommending me to APC and thank you, Estelle and Anriette, for the opportunity. I look forward to meeting you all!
projectmanagement, training, softwaredevelopment, nptech, importantprojects, apc, prague, rolfkleef
For the last 6 weeks I've been working with a team of 7 Greenpeace UK staff to refine the objectives and prioritise the requirements for a constituent relationship management system GPUK plans to implement (we'd originally planned to spend 5 weeks on this activity but made the decision to spend more time on the requirements definition piece).
This week, we're making the final revisions to our list of prioritised functional requirements and must-have non-functional requirements, at which point I'll post them here and solicit your feedback and recommendations — GPUK already has a centralised (but offline) supporter data warehouse they run reports from using Cognos; what they're looking to do now is implement a CRM system that integrates what they already have with their website, which they'll be migrating to Drupal in parallel.
More later :)
UPDATE: this project is on hold until some resourcing issues can be worked out (and until then, I'm not able to post the requirements list mentioned above).
UPDATE 2: I'm no longer working on this project, although it will be continuing (I believe my friend and colleague Sue Fidler will be working with GPUK to complete the next phase of work).
projectmanagement, softwaredevelopment, nptech, importantprojects, greenpeace, howto, prioritise, requirements, crm, drupal, civicrm, democracyinaction, salesforce.com
