Royal Wedding Planner

Projects are everywhere…

What images do the words ‘project management’ conjure up for you?

Building bridges…designing new cars…planning the Olympics…implementing a new IT system…
Or maybe a little closer to home?
Designing a new website…planning your marketing strategy…recruiting a new team…moving to a new office…

You run projects all the time – and the project management essentials of effective planning, setting goals, milestones and budgets, anticipating obstacles and checking your progress are all still relevant.
If you’ve got a particular goal which involves a range of activities with one plate-spinner (you!) in the middle of it, you’ve got a project.

Now consider those stressful activities which most of us take on at some point… a loft conversion… a surprise family party… a community campaign… a house move and of course a wedding.

Projects are everywhere… small or large

Or very large…my heart goes out to the Royal Wedding Project Managers right now.

Most of us, luckily, would not have to plan for:

  • The London Chamber Orchestra, two choirs and two fanfare teams
  • Queen’s Guard from the 1st Battalion Irish Guard, a Guard of Honour from the Welsh Guard, 1,000 Street Liners drawn from the Royal Navy, British Army and RAF, Escorts for the Queen, Bride and Groom and a Battle of Britain Memorial Flypast
  • A reception across more than four state rooms at Buck Palace
  • A digital recording of the ceremony to be released as an ‘official album’ immediately afterwards
  • A procession through London City Centre
  • Multimillion pound security, including snipers on the roof, sharpshooters, undercover officers, mounted bobbies and terrorist-trained armed police
    2,000 at the ceremony alone, including 50 foreign heads of state
  • Millions in the street, paparazzi everywhere and hundreds of millions more watching on telly

Now that’s what I call a project!