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Content Inside: Project Management lasa q c omputane ws guide P rojects are more than ever a fact of life for voluntary organisations. Changing patterns of funding particularly the impact of the Community Fund mean that it is becoming ever more common for agencies to develop their work and secure funding by developing specific projects. Funders in their turn are asking for details of how projects will be managed with some beginning to expect agencies to use one or another established project management system. Technical projects are more common. Many organisations are getting involved in IT and Internet based projects which bring high risks and costs and take managers into technical developments where they may not feel confident. Against this background there is a clear need for project management expertise yet the voluntary sector has no great tradition of using formal methods of project management. This may be a reflection of a reasonable record of success: we havent suffered from high profile project failures especially IT project failures. A string of troubled projects has plagued the commercial and statutory sectors and driven the adoption of a more systematic approach. a project as well as helping with less tangible but vital areas like establishing good communication clarifying roles and building strong teams. Our belief is that voluntary organisations can learn from this body of knowledge and that their ability to manage the growing number of technical projects can be improved by the adoption of these techniques. Their projects tend to be smaller the process of making funding applications can be an added complication but they can still use these techniques to their advantage. This Lasa Computanews Guide is intended to provide an introduction to the techniques of project management. It looks at the basic principles and available tools and provides some templates and procedures for implementing project management methods within the voluntary sector. We arent se ...

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