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Project Risks: When Bad Things Happen to Good Projects
May 10, 2006 – 10:39 pm | Comments Off

Some days, things just go wrong. Servers fail. Computers crash. People don’t show up. Timing is wrong. Often, it is not the things we expect to fail, but the things that we don’t take the …

Project Milestones: Setting the Pace
May 3, 2006 – 6:20 pm | One Comment

With anything you do in the church setting, there are target dates. The dates may be flexible or firm. The pace you set for your ministry will be defined by a number of factors, but …

Define Your Project
April 30, 2006 – 9:21 pm | 2 Comments

Before a project can begin, we must define it. The 5 things that help define a project include:

A single goal or purpose
At least one champion whose is responsible for seeing the project through from inception …

Project Centered Ministry
April 26, 2006 – 10:11 pm | One Comment

In this first installment in a new series on project management, I want to start out by defining what I view as a project:
A project is any planned undertaking that is non-trivial, usually requiring approval …