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Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits Approaches and Templates to Help You Manage with Limited Resources

9781938548000

Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits Approaches and Templates to Help You Manage with Limited Resources

  • ISBN 13:

    9781938548000

  • ISBN 10:

    1938548000

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 06/24/2013
  • Publisher: Maven House
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Summary

Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits introduces the reader to the basic concepts of project management. It provides approaches and templates to help nonprofit managers quickly implement practices to help them manage their limited resources, both financial and volunteer. The book also provides a tool to help the project team determine which practices are most appropriate for the project at hand, insuring that the practices are not burdensome a complaint sometimes heard about project management but rather agile in their approach. In keeping with this theme, the book explores how social media and other technology tools can be used to assist in the management of time-sensitive projects. Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits addresses nonprofit governance and shows how project portfolio management can be a tool to assist in communications with boards of directors and other governing entities when crucial resource decisions need to be made. The project portfolio is a tool that development office managers could easily implement and adopt to facilitate resource assignment, including the assignment of volunteers, and to visually portray to stakeholders the activities of the organization. Finally, the book offers three case studies of non-profit projects that went awry and shows how project management would have assisted.

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