Expert guidance: Applying project management skills
Author: Satty Boyes & James Boyes
Magazine issue: Spring 06
Page numbers: 10-12
Date: 27 February 2006
URL: http://www.speechmag.com/content/files/sattyboyes.pdf
Already a good organiser and time manager, Satty Boyes felt the development of a competency-based postgraduate dysphagia course was going well. She and her colleagues were sceptical when her management consultant husband James suggested the project team would benefit from additional project management skills training, but they decided to try it and see. Satty reports that, in the event, the improved planning increased the enjoyment of ‘doing’, and the plan-do-check-act cycle ensured the project was delivered on time and within budget. She finds the experience has enhanced her personal development and transformed her approach to her everyday work.
