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A successfully managed project is a carefully planned and organized effort. A critical and essential skill for any art service manager is project management--the ability to organize resources--labor, budgets, materials-- and handle constraints so that a project's goals are successfully accomplished. Learn the essentials of project management for planning and executing collections management projects. This book will discuss developing and managing multi-faceted projects from the project manager's point-of-view, including: estate moves, exhibition planning for preparers, storage setup, planning and maintenance, storage movement and planning, collection relocations, traveling exhibitions, art fairs, and prioritizing overlapping projects. This book will discuss every day matters such as: -Identifying your stake holders and foreseeing potential stake holder conflicts, -Identifying the project's goals and parameters, -Outlining goals for initial and follow-up site visits, -Guidelines for conducting a site visit, -Planning for art and material staging, -Estimating and quoting time, labor, and materials, -Understanding and estimating hard and soft costs in your budget, -Planning for contingencies, -Developing budgets and timelines, -Scheduling overlapping tasks, -Creating daily goal sheets and project punch lists, -Training and staffing your crew, -Assigning crew leaders, -Delegating project responsibilities, -Managing quality control and industry standards, -Understanding project completion, post completion, and follow up, and -Managing multiple projects. Over 50 graphics help to make this a book you'll use every day
