Project management consulting and training for social change organisations.
Yesterday I got to deliver another installment of Project Management for NGOs for members of the APC — this time at a European regional staff meeting in Barcelona, Spain. About 10 of us spent the day talking through some basic project management theory and practice, working through a couple of group exercises (that's Maxigas participating in a WBS workshop above) and discussing the ways in which all of the above could be appropriately applied to projects undertaken by APC member organisations (i.e. small NGOs). I had a great time — thanks again to everyone involved in making it happen and to all the participants for making it fun :)
One note: with the help of the APC, I've found an open source tool for creating WBS diagrams I think is quite a bit easier to use (and more powerful) than the Draw program in OpenOffice — it's called Dia, and you can grab the latest release (for Windows) here or my new template here. Enjoy!
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Just got an email saying Important Projects has been nominated for a New Media Award by the New Statesman in the category of Information and Openness. W00t! Very exciting. I'll never win it (I'm up against my clients, Greenpeace UK and Amnesty, the organisations I've been able to openly provide information about, along side many other amazing organisations, like mySociety), but wow. Thanks to whomever nominated me :)
But hey — if you want to nominate me in this category, please do, or if you want to comment on or rate the nomination, likewise :)
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