Susan Farrell certified as a Project Management
Professional (PMP®) whilst working as a project manager in the
software industry.
Susan has been working in the non-profit sector for nine years, five years of which were
as the national programme manager for an OVC programme which received PEPFAR
funding.
Susan has a BCom Hons
(Business Information Systems) and is currently completing a post-graduate
diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation Methods.
Since 2008 Susan has been consulting in the following areas of expertise:
training,
facilitation,
capacity
building,
programme
design,
project
management,
organisational
assessment,
monitoring
and evaluations.
integrated programmes.
'Integrated Programmes' is a facilitated
intervention which is intended to teach and facilitate the process of
integrating the three core programme activities – Designing, Planning and
Monitoring.
Programmes have a
much better chance of achieving their goals if the three activities of
Designing, Planning and Performance Monitoring are tightly integrated.
All too frequently, organisations have
performed these three activities in silos – silos with different methods and
approaches, different teams and different agendas. This has often resulted in separate
departments within the same organisation expending huge amounts of energy and
resources fighting internal ‘turf wars’ instead of working in a tightly
integrated way towards achieving a commonly agreed purpose or goal.
Understanding the social problem;
Strategising how your organisation
can respond;
Developing a theory of change;
Developing programme goals and
objectives which focus on the change you want to see.
Determining the activities needed
to achieve your programme objectives;
Scheduling the activities based on
resource constraints (people, time);
Costing the activities;
Understanding how to create
budgets that can work with your finance/accounting systems;
Learning how to manage projects –
issues, risks, scope changes.
Deciding what to measure – which
data will provide meaningful evidence of your performance, whilst being
practical to collect and analyse;
Developing data collection
instruments/tools;
Collecting data with integrity.
In order to ensure the transfer of skills, as
well as optimum participation, the work is done collaboratively, in facilitated
workshops.
Mobile : 083 377-4284
E-mail : susan@farrellprojects.co.za
Postal Address : Postnet Suite 425, Private Bag X16, Constantia, 7848
