Project management – a simple approach

In the past, event organisers have complained to me that they have become confused with, or lost track of, the dozens if not hundreds of different tasks that they have to complete to deliver their event. I have suggested that they treat the planning, organisation and management of the event as a ‘project’ and that they should adopt a ‘project management approach’ to planning and delivering their event.

Saying that has scared some people and worried most, because ‘project management’ is viewed as something mysterious, very technical and complicated. It can be, but fundametally, project management is simply a formalised and structured approach to planning and managing a group of tasks, to a given timetable, with a specified objective, within given quality standards.

At Annex A ‘Project Management Supplement: Managing The Event’, I have described my simple approach to managing a project, using a simplified project management methodology.