Prosperous Project Management: Unveiling Project SPUD

Prosperous Project Management

Tips, techniques and pragmatic strategies for excellent Project Managers, Toastmasters and high personal achievers. Wayne Botha is a rare Project Manager, with passion for achieving results through Project Management, while improving inter-personal relationships, and developing Project Managers in the process. Wayne is a faculty member at Toastmsters Leadership Institute and Axia college of University of Phoenix.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Unveiling Project SPUD

I was approached this week to manage a project for my church - I don't know where they got the idea that a PMP could help out with this :)

Project SPUD is our code name. We are going to host a booth at the Wapping Fair on the weekend of Sept 10 - 13, 2009 and sell baked potatoes with toppings.

It seems simple, right? Well, we already have 4 pages of plans, including trying to estimate quantities of orders and rate of sale.

This is a fun community project and I am looking forward to working with the fine folks at Wapping Community College over the next 6 weeks.

It is a great way to give back, see project management in action for volunteer efforts and expose regular folk to the benefits of applying project management discipline.

Watch this space for more to come on Project SPUD.

(Believe me, we will use the fewest spreadsheets imaginable, and a very simple project dashboard. I will die a happy man if I never see a Green, Red or Yellow spreadsheet in my life again).

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Name: Wayne Botha

Location: South Windsor, Connecticut, United States

Wayne Botha is one of those rare people who can say he is a project manager, author and speaker and mean it. He is a past Area Governor for Toastmasters International and an enthusiastic Toastmaster. Wayne is a faculty member of Toastmasters Leadership Institute and has trained audiences in South Africa, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and the USA. With an MBA in eCommerce, and a PMP certification, Wayne is sought out to speak at Toastmasters and Project Management conferences. Wayne's colleagues and friends often tease him about his South African accent.