As your milestone or project ends, schedule a meeting with all of your team members as ask the following questions:

What worked well on our milestone/project?
What didn’t work so well?
How can we improve our next milestone/project?

Go …

Whenever you are ready to execute a project, you must be prepared to manage the tasks. Task management is often a full-time job and requires that you, as a ministry leader or manager, not do …

One of the largest advantages to projects is that they have a beginning and ending. Standard service duties never end: ushering, lighting, and worship team to name a few. As we defined our project …

Picking up on the last post about Build vs. Buy Basics, here is how to start approaching the buy vs. build decision:
1. Research
Given your requirements, identify as many options as possible using search engines, word-of-mouth …

Everything is a trade-off: time vs. money, low-cost vs. high-cost, high-tech vs. low-tech. We all have to make decisions when we do things. Unfortunately, it is common within churches and ministries to always go the …

So far, we have listed our project goals, key milestones, risks, and a strawman project plan. These steps together are often what is called the “Inception Phase”, and includes everything to define what is trying …

Following up on the last post, “Project Planning: Creating a Strawman Plan”, let’s dive in a little closer using our ongoing example project of installing wireless at the church coffee bar. We know that we …

It may be early in the life of your church project, but often you have to provide a timeline for a project to your stakeholders. This early timeline is sometimes called a strawman project plan, …

Once you have your milestones and risks assessed, the next step is to begin to chart the project timeline. The first step in planning your timeline is to review the Iron Triangle of time, cost, …