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Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits: Approaches and Templates to Help You Manage With Limited Resources Karen R. J. White, 2013. West Chester, PA: Maven House Press. 162 pages. [ISBN: 978-1-9385-4800-0]Project management is essential in today's working environment. Businesses, nonprofit organizations, and foundations around the globe utilize project-management principles to run their operations, launch products, raise funds, and build capacity. It is important for these organizations to identify individuals with project-management skills to put these techniques into practice. Effective project managers are efficient in their work and in directing the work of others, good communicators, able to lead without interfering in process, and cognizant of the scope, risks, and rewards of their projects.The Project Management Institute (PMI), which provides primary research and training to the project-management field, defines a project as "temporary in that it has a defined beginning and end in time, and therefore defined scope and resources." PMI continues, "A project is unique in that it is not a routine operation, but a specific set of operations designed to accomplish a singular goal" (PMI Institute, 2013). Project management is defined by PMI as "the application of knowledge, skills, and techniques to execute projects effectively and efficiently. It's a strategic competency for organizations, enabling them to tie project results to business goals" (PMI Institute, 2013). In other words, project management is a group of individuals working together efficiently to reach a short- or long-term goal.The world of project management is fraught with tight timelines, limited resources, conflicting viewpoints among team members, and many other obstacles. It is key for project managers to know how to negotiate these potential hazards while maintaining the integrity of their projects and delivering a final product that is in line with the initial vision. In project management, the ability to work productively with team members who have different objectives while meeting various deliverables and milestones is essential. Working with a team of volunteers while managing these items can be even more complicated.Nonprofits with limited resources and no training in project management face great challenges in meeting PMI's standards. Karen R.J. White's book, Practical Project Management for Agile Nonprofits: Approaches and Templates to Help You Manage With Limited Resources, aims to support these organizations by describing practices specifically for nonprofits with limited projectmanagement skills and resources. She provides a useful overview of project-management practices, volunteer management, and nonprofit governance, and proposes best practices for navigating through the life of a project.After an opening description of the changing nature of nonprofits in a globalized environment, Practical Project Management defines projects, project management, and what makes a nonprofit agile. The next section focuses on good practices in volunteer management. Finally, White describes good governance practices in managing projects for nonprofits. She covers a lot of ground, but breaks the book up into digestible pieces and delivers complex information in clear and concise language that is easily accessible to a novice.White's examples are relevant and project managers will find her project-planning templates useful in their everyday work. …

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