Project Management Step by Step: How to Plan and Manage a Highly Successful Project

Setting the scene

In the rest of this chapter I continue with the example of the office move project started in Chapter 3. To set the scene, and to show different ways the project approach can be used, I am going to briefly use a different example, this time of organising a conference.

Imagine you have been asked to set up a series of conferences. You have developed a full understanding of what is wanted. You must organise four big conferences with several hundred people at each, who all should be looked after throughout the three days of every conference. Speakers and presenters need to be identified and invited. Marketing materials must be developed and distributed. Attendees have to be contacted, invited, and fees collected from them. You ...