The document discusses project planning and evaluation. It provides a 10 step project planning process including establishing objectives, approaches, outputs, requirements, budgets and evaluation plans. It emphasizes gathering input from customers and staff, testing projects in beta before full launch, and using both quantitative and qualitative measures to evaluate success including user numbers, staff efficiencies, and customer satisfaction and recommendations. Evaluation is presented as essential to determine if projects should continue, change or discontinue.

1. Project Management Sarah Houghton-Jan

2. What are we thinking to be doing this all at once without planning?

4. Project Planning Basics

5. give yourself some time to plan

6. Project planning is easy... Can add costs for staff time, add explicit deliverables, breaking each step down further, listing who is responsible for what. Time and Money Completion Date (start date Sept. 15)‏ Research 10 hours, $0 September 22 Committee review 20 hours, $0 October 6 Software installation 10 hours, $35 October 13 Staff training 40 hours, $0 November 3

10. Customer and Staff Input and Buy-In

17. Digital Marketing Website (targeted promotions everywhere ) Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc. Analog Marketing Print (in libraries and community facilities) F2F (staff talking with people, word of mouth) Outreach (partnerships, community presence) Marketing Tips

18. How to Evaluate Projects

19. Evaluation Plan What is your evaluation factor? How will you measure it? What is your measure of success? When will you measure?

26. Rapid Change

27. Rejoice in failures, for failing indicates that you reached a boundary that needs testing.

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