Welcome to another Watercolor Wednesday. We are here with my watercolor journal and we are going to paint some more expressive flowers. And let's get started. By the way, we're also on Periscope while we're doing this, so you may hear me answering questions that you can't see. That would be because I'm answering comments on Periscope. Alright, let's go. My palette's already wet because I already did one page today, but we're going to get it a little bit more wet. And we're going to wet the paint that's in the lid here, which you on Periscope can't see, but this is my whole palette. This is the one I usually use for demo purposes for when I'm filming. And I've got my color key very close by. Alright, let's go. I'm going to start with this really big brush because for the first layer of background color, I just want something really soft. And I'm actually going to, I'm going to do a wash of water over the page. Let's just get the whole page wet. Hello, everybody. Alright. So there we go. Now we're going to go in with a sap green. And I need to get my plate because I have no more rub in my lid to mix it with. So we're going to put it here on my porcelain plate. I use porcelain paint palettes because they are easier to clean than plastic. The paint, whether it's watercolor or acrylic, comes right off. Alright. So I want something that's really faint and watery. And the paint is going to bleed and blend with the water that's already on the page, which is what we want.   And I'm also going to lift a little bit with my rag. I'm also going to take something sharp-ish. This is a double-pointed knitting needle. I don't use it for that because I don't really knit anymore. And I'm going to put some lines in the wet paper. And then I'm going to go back in here with a little bit more paint. And it's going to kind of stay in the lines. Make your lines go every which way. Again, we just had this discussion with the Sunset Seascape that nature's not straight and perfect and even, so don't have your paintings of nature be straight and perfect and even. They'll be more natural if they're more suggestive and, you know, crazy lines. I'm going to go in here with a little bit of my sap green. And on my palette, I'm adding some more paint to what I had over here to make it a little bit darker. There we go, like that. Before we do anything else, we want to dry this because I don't want the next color we're going to put on here to blend with the green and make brown. It's not what we want. By the way, this is the time if you want to ask questions. It's a good time to ask them. We're going to use the same large brush and the opposite side of our palette here. I'm going to put in some purple water and a teeny, teeny, tiny bit of quinacridor rose. Because I want to warm it up a little bit but not too much. And that actually tiny bit, and that wasn't much, is actually, I think, too much. So let's bring back some of the blue and that purple. That's a better color. I like that color better. All right. So now we are going to... Right now you're just doing blobs. This is just about the blobs. Just do blobs. And I'm going to go in with some water and I'm going to soften some of said blobs. Now this is a Princeton Neptune brush and it's synthetic squirrel. It holds a lot of water. So I have to remember when I do this to blot it off a little bit on my rag because it actually sometimes gives me too much water. And we don't necessarily need to soften up all the lines. You just want to soften up some of them.  Not too much. And be careful about where you put it. Because the yellow will mix with the purple and you're going to end up with it. But I want to hint at some sunlight before we get too far into this with anything else. I am going to pull up some of this yellow because I think that might be a little too dark. I want like a faint hint of yellow. Not a wham! There's yellow in your face. That's better. No whams yellow in your face. Okay. And then I'm going to do the same thing with a little bit of this blue that's in my lid that we had left over from the seascape and a couple other projects. And I'm going to put some of it in here too a little bit. Always when I'm working on paintings whether I'm doing watercolor or acrylic I always get my backgrounds done first and completed before I work on the focal images and that way I don't have to go back and try to touch up the background around the focal image which drives me crazy to try to get in and around things. Okay, that's pretty good. I like that. So let's give it a dry because what we do next we don't necessarily want to have blend with this. And again on Periscope this is the time if you want to ask me questions it's a good time for that. Okay. So now we're going to go to a small brush. Hey Eileen. What am I doing? I'm trying to read who asked that and I can't read who asked that but I am working in my watercolor journal. So I'm going to go in with a smaller brush and this is a Princeton Select round number four. This is my art apron. I think I understand what you mean Eileen. You keep popping in and out. It's okay, no worries. Okay, so now we're doing flowers. So now we're going to go in with some of our watercolor paint. I'm not going to water it down like I did before. And I'm going to paint in some stems. I'm just using the tip of my brush. I am not pushing down very hard. A little more water in that green paint. Not too much though because we don't want it too runny. Now you can go into some of these with a medium sized round brush and you can just blur some of the lines. So it's not all even and perfect. You can also go in here with some more of the green paint and a larger brush. Put some paint down.  I want it to sort of blur and be drippy. I'm just using sap green. I'm not using any other green paints right now and I'm just using it with different amounts of water. So the more water the lighter the color is going to be. Now think about your color palette and what colors on the palette are warm or cool colors. So those cool colors blend themselves really nicely to indicating or suggesting shade, right? One of the cooler colors on the palette would be your blues, your darker greens, your blue greens, your violets. For this painting, I think I'm going to try using Prussian blue. And we're going to just put a little bit. The paint down here is still wet. There's plenty of water down here. And again, I'm not really touching the brush to the paper very, I'm barely touching the paper. And my Prussian blue paint is not very wet. It's kind of on the dry side, which is cool. That's kind of what I want. And this is just plain water and I'm going to lift. We're not supposed to call it blotting. We're supposed to call it lifting. I like that a lot. So now we're going to go in with our violet color. And I'm going to let this dry a little bit without hitting it with the heat tool because we're going to work up here a little bit. That's another way when you're working on any painting to kind of let things dry without artificially drying them. Just move to a different section of the painting while that other part dries. So now we're going to go in with our violet. And I'm going to try going in. My brush is damp, but it's not very wet. And I'm going to go in first with this bigger one and then probably with the smaller one. I'm going to start with this purple that's on my mixing tray. But I think it might be too light. Yeah, that's too light. So let's add some more paint to it. Let's make it darker. And this is dry up here. So where I put the paint, it's going to stay in this water. I'm just touching the tip of my brush to the paper. I'm letting the tip of my brush make an interesting mark. Then I'm going in here back with the damp brush. Trying not to stick my arm in things I shouldn't be stuck into. And it's damp, it's got a little water on it. And I'm just touching it to a few spots so that they will blend and mix or blur, bloom, whatever you want to call it. Okay, let's keep going. Let's do that again. So we're just touching. Don't make them all the same size. Don't make them all the same shape. You might want to while it's wet stick some, um, a warmer color in there. Like you could stick a little bit of, this is the Quin Rose. And if you do it while it's wet, it's going to blend with the purple and just make it a little warmer in some spots. Just let the tip of the brush make an interesting mark for you. You shouldn't have to work too hard at it. It should just do it. And this kind of painting is a good painting to just play with and experiment with your brushes and what they will do, what you can do with them and what you can't do with them. That's how you learn, you play. Let that one dry just a second. If you work quickly you can probably do a few of them and again rinsing off the, what sizes are they? The brushes you mean? Be more specific about what sizes. I'm glad you're going to try it. I want you to experiment and play all the brushes. Okay, so this is a Princeton Neptune round number 12. So it's a kind of a large round brush. Um, I also have the, um, also a Princeton brush. It's a Princeton Select and it's a smaller round number 4. That's this one. I like Princeton brushes because they are synthetic, um, animal hair. They're not real animal hair. And then my huge one is a Princeton Neptune. Um, this is not called a round. This is, I think, a bright number 8. This is a gigantic brush. This is a round number 12. This is, I think, a bright. And then the flat one I have is a Royal Langnickel flat one inch flat which is this one that I have. But I have a lot of brushes. Those are just the ones I'm going to use today. You're welcome. I like the Princeton Neptune brushes. They're not super cheap, um, but they are a good brush. Um, Royal Langnickel is very inexpensive. I have a lot of their brushes and, um, I've gotten a lot of them on clearance at Michaels or Hobby Lobby. And they're a nice brush. I have no complaints with the brushes of theirs that I have. So whatever fits your budget. So what I have here in California, some areas, I guess, of the U.S., I guess it's not everywhere. We have a store called Aaron Brothers Art Marts Arts and Framing. They are owned by Michaels and they have, um, frequently, um, brush, well, art supply sales, really great ones where they will have, um, like, buy one brush get-too-free, buy one canvas get-too-free. So I wait for sales like that and then I go stock up except that I think that was a happy accident because I like the way it looked. Alright, let's keep going. So I was inspired by this picture to do this painting by some pictures I saw on Pinterest of lavender and lavender type flowers. They didn't look exactly like this, but I thought they were interesting.  I don't know what it is about just painting flowers. They're fun to paint. And there's less, um, I think, stress with painting flowers than there is painting a face. I'm just touching the tip again using different varying shades of my purple paint. Yeah, painting flowers is fun. Everyone loves flowers, don't they? You're texting upside down. No, I can't believe that. I have trouble texting right side up, Eileen. Honestly, lift some of that to a lot of paint right there. If you guys are friends with me on Facebook or you have my email address you'll have to tell me later if you like me doing these periscopes while I'm filming for YouTube and if you're on YouTube you're going to have to tell me if you have any questions, comments or concerns about me doing these while I'm on periscope if you'd like to know how to find me on periscope or any of those things. Most social media things if you just search for my name everything's under my name is when I first started doing art I couldn't decide on a business name so I just used my name I think now it's become a happy accident that I did. Okay, I really like that. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. And there's an uneven number so that's interesting but what I think I need to do is I need to pop it's a really pretty painting but it needs to pop so I'm going to go in with a damp brush and some as a yellow deep and I'm not going to put a lot don't freak out but just a little bit now when you're doing this the sun's right here, we put our yellow right here so you want to make sure all your highlights are on the flowers where they would be hit by the sun because that's what this is don't, you know, don't put highlights on the back side you know, put all of them on one side and then one flower put it on the wrong side don't do that but see how that little bit of this yellowy orange it just gave it a pop, right? I love that I do think I want to do some down here somewhere see how pretty is that quick, easy, fun making art and art generally should be fun something you dread yes, yes, yes, that's pretty alright so now this is a mixed media journal, right? so let's see let's see, let's see background stamps kind of background stamp and then I have an idea for the splatters I think you guys are going to really love this I think I want to use that script stamp again where did it go? because I do like this script I have a basic script stamp, I mean really and we are going to use sepia first we are going to dry this okay, first let's do some stamping and then we are going to take some of our let's see, let's get our biggest bigger one of our bigger brushes and we are going to take the azo yellow deep which is an orangey yellow color see I am going to grab some water it is getting kind of dirty and I am going to put a little bit of vermilion in it which is a darker orange it is really strong see I actually got more orange than I wanted it to so we are going to take some more of that azo yellow so now we are going to do this and don't freak out, don't freak out if you get too much of somewhere that you don't want you know you are not going to get it all up but just blot it a little bit and remember that the watercolor dries lighter I love the messy color I love it, I love it, love it, love it I hope you guys do too it was quick, it was fun it was easy it would be really great on a greeting card I could see doing a greeting card or a postcard in this so I hope you guys have fun with that don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it, do some painting have some fun and experiment, alright alright, I will see you later, bye


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Blake the diamond that belonged to your uncle Yes, Sergeant cuff his will stated that I was to give it to his niece Rachel on her birthday And you say this Moonstone had a curse on it. There's been said yes because it's believed he took it from an idol An Indian moon guard and those Indian jugglers. You saw it the jail. You believe they stole it. Yes They were in the garden outside the house when the diamond was given to Rachel But I've shown you our prison records mr. Blake the Indians couldn't have stolen it. They were behind bars all last night Who else is at the party? Let's see Rachel her mother lady Julia Verinda our cousin Godfrey Abel white Dr. Candy their family physician and the servants what of them Betridge and a new housemaid and a my believer's Rosanna. All right, mr. Blake. We'll look into it. Ah, there's the house As soon as we entered the house Sergeant cuff went into Rachel sitting on hardly bothering with the cabinet from where the Moonstone had been stolen His eyes seem to be much more taken with the door Rachel had painted and decorated with Cupid the afternoon of her birthday Hmm quite good work. There's a smudge on one of the Cupid pity anyone know how it happened Mr. Betridge one of the mage Petticoats with all the commotion this morning pity paint dry now There's anyone know which Petticoat did it? I don't think any of them sergeant that part of the door was the last to be painted Couldn't have happened this morning. You're quite sure mr. Blake. I watched a finish it About four yesterday afternoon. I would have dried in about ten hours About two in the morning then You may have put something valuable in our arms. Mr. Blake The smeared Petticoat or whatever will bring us to the truth You think it was worn by the state. I think it was worn by someone There's no evidence of fever. He is yet only that the diamond is missing Mr. Betridge, would you tell lady verandah?  They're as honest as you are I'm sure they are your ladyship. It's only a question of their help the women especially now If they knew I was going to inspect the wardrobes of everyone from your ladyship downwards You're certain this is necessary before we can make another step I've also asked mr. Better it's to get me the washing book to account for all the linen in case the article was sent to the washer and destroyed I'm to ask your daughter for a wardrobe key. Where will you start? I'm with mr. Blake here if you'll consent of course Don't forget me sergeant. I'm in the next room then we'll do you next mr. Abel white and when you finish may I leave for London? Oh, it's a mere formality I'll be free to go is the washbook sergeant. Oh, thank you, mr. Bettery and Mr.. In this key my young lady refuses to have her wardrobe examiner Betrayed was it explained to her. Yes, she started to cry and said I won't because I won't As you may return the washbook mr. Bettery mr. Abel white you may leave at any time. Thank you sergeant. That will be all mr. Bettery Then you aren't going to serve all or none sir, but why should Rachel? I don't understand pardon my being personal mr. Blake Would it be wrong to say you're in love with miss Verrinda? No, it wouldn't be wrong love blinds to a great extent.  Roseanna Excuse me. I was looking for mr. Bedbridge. I was told he was here. He just left my girl. Thank you Roseanna Roseanna's fear my method, you know, I've seen her once before mr. Blake about five years ago in prison perfect in prison Well, there's the answer. Well, it's not the old answer mr. Blake will you promise to hold you at temper if I see sense in what you say all right Tell me why does miss better into refuse to cooperate to have a wardrobe exam in because she Because exactly because she knows more about the diamond than she's willing to tell Couple that with Roseanna Spearman who was a thief knows how to raise money and pledge a valuable without question Now that is preposterous. Why should Rachel need money for reasons? She doesn't want to discuss Something that would force her to go to great length Scandal if you're part in the way This is the detective's mind Suppose miss very and they were to suddenly decide to leave this house refuse point blank to help as I think she will I'm sorry sergeant. You don't know her.  Blake never had a deal of experience I'll be the first to admit it if I'm wrong But I don't think I am The night came on and a heavy muffled mood of suspicion settled over the house Rachel stayed locked in her rooms and would speak to no one Sergeant was wrong about her. He had to be But I couldn't push the torture of his logic from my mind. I Was afraid deeply afraid of the coming day The first news that terrible morning was that Rachel was going to leave the house The colonels vengeance was working in ways. He never dreamed Miss Verinder, I'd like to say once more your leaving is a great obstacle to the recovery of your diamond Now knowing that you're still intend to leave I do Rachel Please Rachel you can't I have nothing to say to you. Mr. Blake drive on I Stood there helplessly watching ago There was nothing left But the truth of sergeant cups words The scandal some terrible secret she dare not tell I Had to find out if I was going to help Rosanna If she had helped Rachel plot the theft she would also know her secret. I Went to the servants hall only to find betrige and sergeant cup ahead of me One of the gardener said he saw her running towards the beach walk Then there's a hiding place down there if I'm not mistaken hiding place It's almost all quicksand the jewel had to be kept somewhere possibly the stained article of clothing, too Miss Verinder's accomplice recovers the diamond to take you a later. Nice. It better hurry. Will you join me mr. Blake? We raced down the walk to the beach. Rosanna was nowhere in sight Only a footprints They led us far into the very edge of the quicksand look as we might there were no footprints returning At almost the same moment the terrible meaning dawned on us both That she know there was quicksand Yes sergeant she knew First time I saw was here She walked into that muck Deliberately Rosanna wasn't the kind to scare mr. Blake. He must have had her own good reason Back at the house the news of Rosanna's death deepened the unhappy Paul That afternoon sergeant cuff was dismissed from any further investigation And lady Julia left for London to join Rachel later. I left the house myself Feeling terribly depressed useless I Would have given my life to help Rachel There was no avenue left open I Took ship for the continent the next morning hoping that time and distance would let me forget Almost a year was to pass before I returned It is bringing you mr. 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Call me Western Union operator 25 and remember from bumper detail light You're always right with auto light and now Auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Mr. Peter Lawford in Elliot Louis's production of the concluding act of Wilkie Collins The Moonstone a tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense I returned to London in June 1849 I was informed of all that had happened in the year that I'd been away by the family lawyer mr. Brough Rachel's mother had died some months ago and Rachel had been engaged to marry Godfrey Abel white broke off of course right after Lady Verinda died seems he was only interested in Rachel's money Where is Rachel mr. Brough here in London living with the Guardian appointed by her mother as she Ever spoken of me not once to my college as for the Moonstone. We've all respected her silence on that Why does she resent me mr. Brough? I think it was your attempt to help in an affair. She once kept secrets whatever her reason I just can't believe that Rachel stole her own diamond I'm going to find out who did I won't presume to stop you, but how will you go about it? I'll start where it all took place The house in Yorkshire Lord Harry mr. Franklin. It's good to see you. It hasn't been very happy here since I know better That's why I'm back the Moonstone sir.  That's all I wanted to know sir So I don't see how am I helping you can be wrong. Do you remember that poor girl of ours Rosanna Spearman? Of course, how could I forget you left a coat here, sir And I found a letter in one of the pockets the rest to you from Rosanna here it is Sir Please follow the enclosed instructions do it when you're not observed Go to the shivering sand at the turn of the tide There's a rock ledge covered with seaweed and attached to the rock is a chain which drops into the quicksand Pull up the chain There's the ugly police Tides almost out. There's only one rock ledge. You go ahead, sir No said do it alone. That's her grave, too. I'd like to humor her I Went under the rock ledge the last surge of the sea fell away, and I walked out gingerly on the edge of the quicksand Getting down on all fours. I fell under the glistening seaweed After a moment my hand touched the rusty length of a chain Came up easily Attached to the end was a rusted metal box. I Forced it open It was filled with a white cloth on top of which was another letter bearing my name. I Carried it all to the dry beach and unroll the cloth It was a night shirt On its sleeve was a smear of pain from Rachel sitting room And I recall the words of sergeant cuff Find the smeared article of clothing. You will know who took the diamond. I Looked to see if it was marked for the owner's name Finding the mark I read Frankton Blake my own name I Looked again my own name plainly marked with my own name The next thing I remember was being back in Betridge's room with a drink of whiskey in my hand one thing for sure That nightgowns a liar a pure liar My nightgown betridge. I Couldn't have taken the diamond, but it's my nightgown and it's howl play. That's how I read it What about Rosanna's letter, sir? Yeah So I have a confession a confession of my own misery in three words. I love you Me what does she mean? That's what the servants believe sir They used to see her mooning at you puttering around your room every chance she could yes, I remember But it never ended my mind what more does she say I Will be dead and gone The morning the moon stone was stolen. I went to do my work in your room Your nightgown lay across your bed, and I saw the stain of paint.   I know there is no chance. You're ever returning my love But I will keep your secret. I go now to the shivering fans, which have always drawn me Remember me I was at a complete loss My search for the thief had led directly to myself So now Rachel's attitude was no longer a mystery She had left because she believed I had stolen the diamond. I Went back to London and told mr. Brough everything. I suggest you do something for me, mr. Blake What's that sir? I received the letter this morning From dr. Candy. He was at the birthday party the night the diamond was stolen if you remember driving home from the party that night He nearly caught his death in the rain He's been ill ever since his letter suggests he has something of great importance to discuss with you Will you please go see him? Good of you to come out of your way to see me mr. Blake. Thank you doctor. You're looking well I like to apologize to mr. Blake Apologize sir the night of miss horrendous party you and I sat next to each other There was some joking about the diamond you recall not distinct. They know sir just something unpleasant I I told you I suspected you hadn't been sleeping well and to let me give you a course in medicine I don't think I've had been sleeping well I decided to prove my medicine to you if I could give you a good night's sleep without you knowing it What I was going to come back the next day and ask you how you slept you would have said fine And without medicine and I was going to say ah But you did have medicine sir dr. Candy Did you give me something that night? It was a dose of lot Part of the opium family in your nightcap. I hope you'll accept my apology mr. Blake but If I took the diamond What did I do with it? I feel I owe you all the help I can give Are you willing to try an experiment? I do anything doctor. There's a chance That under the right condition Taking a similar dose of Lordenham You might repeat exactly what you did the night of the birthday You might very well have hidden the diamond somewhere in the house With witnesses to watch it would prove your innocence Yes, but it would have to be done at the veranda house. Well, I'll write to miss Rachel with your permission telling her everything I'm sure she wants your innocence proved as much as you yourself It was a very nervous time for me waiting for Rachel's answer With great relief her letter came saying she accepted dr. Candy's explanation The house was at our disposal and she wished us all success for the experiment. I Wrote mr. Brough asking him to be one of the witnesses and dr. Candy and I left for the veranda house Ready mr. Blake course doctor get on with it. What's my opinion the whole thing assembled all right mr. Brough We have your opinion 40 minum's Lordenham in weak brandy and Suda Hey, you're witnessing mr. Brough. I'm witnesses. Yeah Yeah Drink it mr. Blake waste of time. No mr. Blake. You may retire to your bed How long before this is supposed to work and not before midnight Indian devils in the house Kill Rachel is getting up No take it's going out of the room and take off your boots. Come on Mason there's a piece of crystal to simulate the diamond in the drawer. Yeah, he's found it Looked like he knows what to do He dropped it Going over to that sofa. Yeah, he couldn't have done that before This sedative effect is coming on he's slumped on the couch Hey, it's all over Get him sleep there When I awoke the next morning they told me what I had done I proved only the dr. Candy's joke at calls was called by my unconscious behavior But now And what had happened afterwards was still a mystery We had come to another blank wall It was a month later an item in the newspaper caught my eye Some east indian jugglers had been in a fight in a tavern in one of the lowest parts of london One of them had been stabbed the others had escaped Almost at the same moment. I received an urgent message from mr. Brough To meet him at the wheel of fortune The tavern mentioned in the news dispatch up these days, mr. Blake quickly. What is it mr. Brough in this room here? Good lord On the bed lay a man dressed in sailor clothes On the floor next to him was a small wooden box open and empty The box that had held the moonstone I looked down at the man's face There was a brown mark beneath on the bedsheet. I saw that his dark skin was only stained I looked hard Beneath the stain and the heavy growth of beard Was the face of godfrey abel white Hello Godfrey surprised Godfrey You took the diamond. Good joke So you come out of Rachel's sitting room. You dropped it. I picked it up and you kept it I like mummy better reason Indians been after me for a year thought I could fool them Didn't did I moonstone? Affinating dual exquisite Almost worthy Your life It was some months later that a small news item appeared on an inner page of the town's It stated that the worshipers of an ancient four-handed moon guard Were rejoicing over the return of a fabulous yellow diamond To a recess in their idols for it It was a small item I doubt if many people read it A spence Presented by auto light tonight star mr. 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So, welcome all to this education session, this online training seminar on project management. This is a session that DPC program is organizing together with Agnes from Project Management Institute Netherlands and Diana from Project Management Without Borders who will introduce themselves a little bit later. So this session is part of many training sessions that have been developed under the DPC program which is the partnership program of IHE Delft funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. So during this session we will go over the project cycle and we'll also link this to real life examples. The session will be one hour education session and at the end there will be half an hour questions. So we will try to answer the questions that people have already during the sessions but for sure they will be answered at the end of the session. Next slide please. So here you can see me and Diana and Agnes but I will ask them to introduce themselves because they can do that better than me so please Diana can you say a few words about yourself? Absolutely, so I'm Diana Landers, I'm the founder and president of Project Managers Without Borders and we also call ourselves PMWB. We're an international volunteer organization that partners with other organizations other not-for-profit humanitarian organizations to make them more efficient and effective and today I'm very happy to be here, we're partnering with these organizations to bring this material to you. Agnes? Okay. I'm Agnes Verstege, I'm a certified program manager actually with AT&T, a telecom community company but part of my certification I'm part of the Project Management Institute Netherlands chapter and we bring with the Education Foundation, we bring education to volunteering organizations and as well as schools. Thank you and in the back we have Wim also from PMI Netherlands, he is the guy that makes it all possible that we are gathering here online, thank you already Wim. Next slide please. So this is a rather abstract picture of the program, I work for, oh sorry I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Nadine Sander and I work for the DBC2 program which is as I mentioned financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I'm a program assistant in this program for a bit more than four years at the moment. So I will tell a bit more about the program now in the next slides. So this is a kind of an abstract picture of the program. The program is a 40 million program that's financed many different types of activities, it's an ITDELF partnership program so the activities are implemented together with ITDELF partners in low and middle income countries, they all address water development challenges and this picture presents a little bit the different types of activities we have in this synergy, so we have focused regions in which we do, we support education and training activities, research and innovation and also stimulate innovation through pilots and demonstration. So yeah, I think that's it from my side, I would like to hand over to Deanna. Hi there, so yeah we're going to in this presentation we're going to be using one primary example throughout and so I want to give you a background on that now, the project we call Water Rico because it was providing clean water in Puerto Rico and the people that we worked with were Rotary Clubs, multiple Rotary Clubs in the Denver area and Denver, Colorado in the United States, the people that I was dealing with there they had a really bad experience with the project in Madagascar where they were digging wells, providing water from wells, but they thought that the money that was invested in the wells was way more than the value than they were getting, it wasn't just a financial concern, it was really the value the number of people serviced by these wells wasn't enough for the finances that they were providing and so they really didn't feel that that was a good experience and so they wanted to partner with us so that we could see if we could help them in their next project and they really needed to identify a new need, they need to find a community that could be helped by themselves to identify the solution and then also implement it. So our role was to be part of the team and then introducing them to project management concepts and helping them put those concepts into practice in this project. So we identified the key phases of the project to be identifying the community, identifying a solution for that community, implementing the solution and then obviously supporting as we go along. So I'd like to explain these pictures here so that you can understand when I when I share examples of how that fits into this project management framework you can see what it looks like, what this project was about. The leftmost one under the needs of phrase phase one proof of concept was of course the proof of concept. If you look between the two people in the front you can see a little bit of a concrete structure and that is a filter, a water filter and so we created it out of concrete. The second photo has a little bit better picture of it. The first one was in Denver on the proof of concept and we did a second proof of concept in Puerto Rico, in the community in Puerto Rico and that's what that second photo is and the final product photo or on the right is made out of two buckets and filter so it's actually you could notice that it did change over time because we had proof of concept we were able to identify what worked and didn't and ended up with this product at the right that you see. We ended up with with over a thousand of these in Puerto Rico in an area that had been devastated by hurricanes and so when we go through the examples then you'll be able to to picture these products as what we ended up with is in our project. Okay well we designed a well let's say an education with a little bit more simplified project management where we go through the next couple of slides we go through the project life cycle we have in total five phases the first one is initiate and align so making sure that as the initial project brief that you define your goals your outcomes your objectives and success criteria and as well including the business case part of your program part of your project you do as well in the first phase you do quite a lot of research trying to get relevant information on the subject what you need to deliver and as well you identify your resources and how you engage with each other we have included throughout the slides we have some templates some are in the backup and Nadine will send the presentation as well afterwards to all of you and you can use the templates if they are applicable. The next phase is plan the work so my understanding is as an output of your planning process it's the DUPC proposal the DUPC plan but in planning the work it's basically defining developing all the criteria for your objectives and output your scope and of course identify all the things you need to do to deliver upon the objectives so all the activities and as well identify assumptions constraints and risk we will go to a couple of topics in more depth such as risk management in the next section next slide please okay then we have work the plan and monitor and control officially these are two phases but they go hand in hand so work the plan is basically executing on your on your project plan deliver upon the product and outcomes as per agreement and the objectives and success criteria you have defined and one of the items especially is also iterative planning so with work the plan monitor and control if things happen you go back into the planning so we will go through that and as well one of the key items as a project manager is communication communication with your stakeholders and of course produce the reporting and in my understanding in your cases while the form of sponsor reporting so we will go deeper into the communication and at the last phase which within project management is very important is to evaluate your project and define lessons learned because if you have multiple projects you can then include those lessons learned into your next project so we will go through lessons learned sessions and details in relation to that so that's the topics where we will go through today next slide please okay on initiate and line it's very brief we included as well an excel project workbook as a project manager most times we start immediately with your project tracking document or your project workbook so the data you collate together you put that in there making sure that you have one overview of all the items but key is of course especially in the beginning agree with your sponsor what you are going to do what you're going to complete as well do the research for example pull out previous experiences of other projects right if there are lessons learned with a similar topic try to retrieve the lessons learned of other project teams because that can help you with planning additionally of course you need to identify your resources your key resources your experts you need to be able to be successful for your project and what I mentioned the project workbook to document everything let's go to the next slide on the business case it's a good question in relation to in the beginning of your initiate or your project brief indeed the business case should be included because that's basically the the benefit or the impact you're going to deliver so as part of your project belief of an initiation indeed the business case should be part of the initiative initiative phase because that's where you build your plan upon so yes in the in the project in BMI we talk about a project charter but the project brief needs to include as well the business case because that's the the constraint you need to work in after the project brief then you go into your officially planning and of course you can have several tools so we have for example the mind map and also you can use for brainstorming and as well if you brainstorm you need to fine tune and prioritize your ideas so we do have some documentations for that and of course define and define your scope so based upon of course the business case and the brief you need to identify your critical success factors as part of the project plan because that's where you are measured upon and where you deliver your project according to. One key item where well at least from a project management point of view I really like is the work breakdown structure and we will go into one of the next slides we will go into more deeper but that's to decompose your project in manageable work packages but it's good to do that together with your team and then of course you create your shadow based upon the the work breakdown you plan all the activities making sure when what and who and how you will deliver upon your objectives so let's go into the next slide. Yeah this is an example of what we just talked about the project example we've been talking about with the Water Rico is it's a small project and actually let's just scoot back to one slide so that we can talk about that just briefly that the point was we did identify the critical success factors as Agnes had mentioned we identified that we needed to have a location that we needed to find a location that was close to the Rotary Club in the United States because they didn't want to have an experience like with Madagascar where they flew halfway around the world and then they had a bad experience so we identified that we needed to have a sustainable situation they were a people who wanted to find a problem to solve close to them whereas I know most of the time you would have a problem that we we go to solve because the problem exists this was people who wanted to help who went out to find a place to help and so we we helped them with that so when we looked we used some of the tools that Agnes mentioned we brainstormed to find something that was close to the United States that had a water need and ended up with several options prioritized those and researched into those locations and I ended up eventually identifying Puerto Rico since it had suffered a lot of damage from two hurricanes in a row and that damage impacted their infrastructure water power and a whole lot more and so Rotary identified the solutions and we made sure that we proved the concepts before going on site putting that planning into the project as you've seen in the in the photos before okay okay thank you Diane on the work breakdown structure so you can define the work breakdown structure in you can do it by face or by category so dependent on on the project and basically what you need to do is take the water of your project scope right what do you need to deliver and then try to organize that in groups which makes sense in every time decomposing to the next step so basically when your rigged structure is complete is when all the deliverables in your scope and your project are included and you go to the level of work packages so that it can be executed and with this work breakdown structure it ideally is to do that together with your team because then you are already familiarizing your team with with what needs to be delivered and also have of course all the expertise as part of it for that and then of course in the end with each workable item you can easily go into the next step which is then creating your schedule putting a timeline to it and resources and the other benefit would be on the rig breakdown structure later on in communication or status reporting that you could design it in a way that also from a milestone perspective you can do that on a level of your work breakdown structure in understanding whether your project is well green and performing well overall also in scheduling my understanding is that in general the schedule is a scheduling is performed well but always of course be smart specific measurable attainable relevant and time-based and to answer the question on whether there is a some rule as to what percentage of the project budget and the time should be ideally spend on project management and well from a PMI perspective you do fit for purpose so and so there is not a rule of thumb I would say but from my experience perspective the more you plan the better your project flows especially if we go into some of the next slides in relation to risk management let me go to that to add to that I would say that you can either do it right or you can do it over and you know if you don't do your right your planning in the beginning then you end up spending time on what you shouldn't and you end up taking more time than you should have anyway so there's huge value in that plan so just as an example for the WBS the goal in our Water Rico project was to positively impact the community by providing dependable clean drinking water and so when we were there we realized that there were two cultures we were dealing with the Rotary culture and the Puerto Rican culture Puerto Rico is territory of the United States has a different language that's spoken there and things are are quite different from the team that was Rotary from the United States and when we combined those we recognized that we really needed some flexibility so we did create a WBS we we provided with project management discipline we're able to help them get better results through using the WBS instead of a schedule which was kind of interesting you know the the time frames weren't weren't there in larger projects I worked with for IBM and it's very clear you have your here's your schedule and this is very straight you do these sorts of things at least from a waterfall perspective in this case it was very flexible and it needed to be but the WBS was essential to keep going back to here's what needs to happen we had a counterpart project manager in Puerto Rico from the Rotary and his role was to coordinate there and he chose much less granular tasks like maybe they were like provisioning assembly of the the units training and things like that and there were individuals responsible for those and they it's it was really important to them to have that responsibility but they didn't want to be have it broken down into very extremely detailed tasks and so the WBS was essential the key point there was to have the discipline the framework but be aware that it can be improved and it's just more important to have that plan and the flexibility in case the situation changes okay next slide please and despite the fact that everyone with planning thinks about the schedule and objectives and everything key for us is also a risk management and communication so starting with risk management if you made any assumptions or whether you have any constraint basically that induces a risk so for us the risk management is is more important because very important because it's also a mechanism that you have to communicate to your stakeholders because if you took an assumption and if the assumptions is not true then of course it has impact on your project so if you as part of planning you identify upfront all the risks you can think of which are relevant of course but most times induced by assumptions or specific constraints or potentially working with third parties to document them but also to together with your team and also share with your stakeholders to identify okay what if this happens what will we do so a part of a risk management plan always we have a description of the risk and yeah officially you can have a negative risk and also a positive risk so an opportunity so if you identify an opportunity to have additional gains etc yeah that could all be that's also a risk because it will have impact to your project because if you go after that potentially your timeline or you have additional cost impact is identifying okay what will the impact be on your scope on your cost on your shadow your benefit you would like to deliver and as well the likelihood of occurrence so to together with your team to identify okay what is the likelihood that this will happen and based upon that as well to identify a risk response strategy so what can you do to minimize the risk or even in some instances to avoid and yeah prevent it overall and of course in that perspective it depends as well because you plan or you add additionally either cost to that particular risk or you have additional cost to mitigate and also potentially impact as impact to your schedule but documenting that makes it clear to everyone and also to your stakeholder if this happens then it means that the impact to the project will be that the delivery will be one month later or we would have additional cost etc of course as part of the risk plan you also have ownership so identifying the person who is the owner of that particular risk strategy and also to monitor the risk because it could always be that the risk is not occurring and your assumption was correct so it will not happen but assigning an owner to the specific risk is also part of the plan and of course a risk trigger sometimes you have indicators up front that probably a risk will be materialized and that you then can trigger the response strategy and it could will be and communicate part of the plan communicating the risk and the impact and everything of course some things you and then we talk about of about unknown unknown sometimes you don't know and that will be part of the issues but the key is is that via the risk management that you identify the the known unknowns and then also provide a little budget most times as part of your plan to mitigate or to respond to those known unknowns so we go to the next slide we have several risk responses so one is avoidance so to eliminate it completely so that you can take an action to either reduce the probability or the the impact to zero you can transfer it so that means that you can ensure it or you transfer the risk to a third party for that of course it will not eliminate the total risk but then basically it transfers the liability someone to someone else and then you have mitigation so to minimize I would say the impact so if in some instance you can't avoid it completely but you can reduce the either the probability or the impact to your project and additionally the last one is to accept so as part of your plan and that's why I mentioned as well most times there is a budget reserved in some instances it's either too expensive to do something about a risk and especially depending on what the probability is so you can also accept it and say okay we accept the delay we accept the additional cost and if that is occurring so overall you prioritize your risk because sometimes the likelihood is very low or and the impact is very high fries further but you prioritize them and also together with the sponsor and stakeholders you identify okay which risk and which strategy you would like to apply let me go to the next minute side and Diana can you go through an example absolutely so so this is an example of risk management logs for the water vehicle project and we identified many risks and this is just a couple of examples that I want to talk about but a lot of them don't turn into issues and some of them do their issues when they become realized and when we look at the first one this is one of those examples that became unknown a known unknown and originally we didn't realize this was a risk we had a goal to have a community that had a need and so we I first identified before identifying Puerto Rico we identified a community in Mexico that had this need and we talked with the community multiple members of the community identified that they had a need for clean water that was easily attainable and you know dependable clean drinking water we started working with them and after a bit we learned that there was a need but not as strong of a need as we had thought it turns out that there was a water delivery person or multiple water delivery people who were providing water it but it people had to pay for it in the community and it wasn't as often as they would like it was inconvenient for them but if we were to show up and and provide a well or a filter or whatever our solution was going to be we might be impacting the livelihood of these folks that provided water from a truck and at that point we realized we we needed to abandon that community as the option for our solution because we they actually didn't have a great need they had it was a bit inconvenient but their need wasn't as great and we certainly didn't want to negatively impact the community so then it was identified that that was a risk going forward you know the trigger in that case was very clearly the notification from the people that were providing water in the first place so we identified that as a risk for future locations that we would communities that we would go to help and we absolutely would avoid we would we would not move forward if that risk was was realized like it was in that Mexican community the next one is that we wouldn't be able to get materials locally it was also a very important goal to be sustainable with this project and so we needed to make sure that we didn't have to bring a lot of equipment or materials from the United States and we could get it in Puerto Rico which was you know where we ended up having the project and so what we ended up doing is we recognize that we would mitigate as much as possible with with the materials we would make sure that we could identify and locate all of the materials that we could in Puerto Rico but then if there were any sort of a triggering event every year there's hurricane season if that were to happen again it might be that the the materials aren't available for for new filters so we were going to accept that part because it happens so infrequently but also we could we could ship material if required so we it was a combination of both we mitigated by choosing a solution a technical solution a product that we could use the materials that were on site but of course there was a risk that sometimes there wouldn't be those materials but those were in cases that were not very likely to happen very often in any case with the the hurricanes or other some sort of disaster so this is actually the log that we use to help us review and validate where we are understand what we needed to do ahead of time to to mitigate and and identify how to handle it if they happened you know as those risks so we could avoid them or or mitigate them as appropriate next slide and to answer the question whether it's just an emergency management or what is necessary for long time risk management well risk management is part of your full project so it is again iterative so and you monitor it during your project so it could be that is part of yeah what we do as part of the the project also discuss risks continuously so if because additional risk can occur or additional risk can appear so it's a risk clock is a living document and you adjust it according yeah how your project is is going and add to it or in some instances if you can add as well a timeline so sometimes you have very detailed risk plans depending on your project it's it's fit for purpose but you can include as well timelines to it so making sure that with the owner that maybe the risk only is a during a period of your project and then if it didn't occur then you close it and it can be additional risk can be added so it's a continuous activity you do during your project and it's part of planning and later on we will say it that's why we talk also about interest for planning but we will go in a couple of slides we will go more in depth to that as part of your plan you also plan communication so to create a communication plan so who needs what information to your stakeholders also to your project team when would they need the information so not only the official I would say status reporting etc but also status or communication with your project team or with suppliers or specific stakeholders and the communication always consists of who when where what and how you deliver that communication so it could be either a meeting you have on a regular basis or you have an official status report or so all the documentation of all the communication is documented in the plan of course still depending if you if during your project you have an issue and then you have ad hoc meetings those will not be part of your communication plan if they are not regularly but in general plan your communication and as well with that you ensure that you provide to your stakeholders and that can include sponsor all your stakeholders that they have the right information at the right time to achieve the objectives and see the results of the project and that's the way how you show your progress on your project let's go to the next slide sorry um the end do you have a example on the communication oh no sorry I didn't but but I guess I'll mention why I didn't and that was this is a very small project and so we actually used status reporting for communication and and had you know these regular meetings between the the teams where that was the plan we would talk very frequently and it was a very small project so there wasn't a lot in that space that we did thank you Dan okay well as soon as you have your plan and then it needs to be signed off by your sponsor your stakeholders that they know what you do that they know the risks etc and then of course after approval you execute on the plan and what I mentioned work the plan monitoring controlling go hand by hand because of course if you deliver you also need to check whether you deliver according to success criteria and everything which you agreed with your stakeholders and with that if something deviates because for example quality is you have your quality your cost your schedule your scope your budget and what you are going to deliver if you deviate then you need to adjust your plan accordingly and to have that iterative planning because overall I think there are rarely projects who are executed without any issue or without any changes so it's part of what we do and it's part of why we are there for that and the key of course as well as soon as well you deliver and according the plan you also provide a project status you gather all the documentation during the work to plan and basically part of the monitoring and controlling that you gather the status where you are on the project and communicate it as according to plan so let's go to the next slide and that's the iterative planning so often when we do or when we create a schedule and depending we have now as well a lot of agile approaches etc so but overall you plan you create a plan you made assumptions things happen right you have unknown unknowns so overall planning is well executing and planning it's iterative so if you deviate from your scope if something happens or you have an additional opportunity and you need to go back to your planning and adjust your plan in agreement with the stakeholders have that discussion and saying okay we assumed that we have a turf party or that resources were available something happened maybe someone had an accident yeah it's something you can't you need to deal with it so basically you go back to your planning so you go back to your schedule you identify okay with this change it's basically change management with this change what is the impact what are the possibilities you create a new plan and then agree with your stakeholders and I think that's one of the key items sometimes depending on what type of process you have the the planning and all the the agreements are made very early with a lot of assumptions and then you start executing it could be that there is a quite some time in between so you need to assess as well is are my assumptions still correct are are we delivering are there any things we didn't think about because that could still happen and then you go back into planning and then execution most times with this assessment you constantly assess your time cost assumptions constraints and risks with this it's a planning then can you give some examples from your perspective absolutely yes so we had a situation where you remember the photos from the beginning where we had our our phase one our proof of concept and then what we ended up with were very different and this is a result of this iteration we we found that when we created our filters out of concrete we went out there to to Puerto Rico and we showed people how to use them we we showed them how to create them in their own community and it all went very well except for the feedback that we got was first of all they weren't portable we had to identify where they were and it would be very difficult to move them and that meant that they weren't shareable the community really wanted to have maybe one family use it some days and another family use it another day that they didn't have one per family they wanted to to be able to have it as a community solution and not some have them and some don't and so they we worked with the community after providing one in a shared spot so there was a recreation center so they could all go and use that filter but what we ended up identifying is we really needed to improve the design improve the situation plan for a different solution and and we didn't recognize that with all of the input even that we got from the people who weren't on site when we went on site those stakeholders were able to help us identify that we did need a new plan we needed to iterate we learned a lot about where and when and how but the solution needed to change so what we ended up with were was a solution a product that entailed just it just was two plastic buckets with a piece that was easily ordered it was not local so that was that goes back to our risks we had there was one piece that was very important that we needed to get from someplace else but everything else was was local it was very easy to get these buckets they could move them and as a matter of fact we started conversations on how locally they could create those those filter the actual filter pieces components of of the solution and so just to make the point really clear that I made before the flexibility leads to the iteration you iterations you use iterations to be more flexible and that was essential in our water vehicle project go to the next slide okay well and part of your project and that's also we have that excel workbook and it's a again a simplified version but it's good to to monitor your project on a I would say even weekly monthly basis on a project level and then probably monthly yearly on the sponsor level what I understand you have formal reporting to do but as a project manager it's good to have a simplified way to see how your project is doing so from a dimension you can use the red amber green are we overall are we going to meet according to schedule going to meet according to quality etc and but also you can do that on scope time cost and your stakeholders and especially on the stakeholders also reach out to them to say okay do you think or to your project team in are we doing well for that and so you can use that red amber green perspective and then also the trend is important are we are we stable let's say amber but stable or and green for that or are we worsening right or improving so that's also good to to provide in your in your status and that's also record and document your status on a consistent basis because then as a project manager you on on top of things also if things happen what I mentioned the risks etc make sure that you keep track of it for that because that gives you that you yeah that you are in control of your project and also easily can report and ask your team as well to be part of that weekly monthly project level reporting that's for yourself and then probably monthly most times is a fit for purpose to do the official or formal reporting and again fit for purpose as part of your communication plan and ask as well your stakeholders what type of information they want to receive and also on which time period for that Diana so the rotary had their own reporting requirements so this organization we were working with so we use those reports that were developed from years of experience with small humanitarian projects but they were really focused on on the financial they were financial in nature but they ventured into the realm of impact but really only at the end so we had this reporting structure that our partner wanted to use but they weren't very interested in the reporting as we went along and so what we identified is when working with our stakeholders that we were able to actually improve performance of realize that the people involved in this project every one of them was a volunteer so we had rotary volunteers we had project managers without borders volunteers volunteers from the community what we we recognized or what we were helped able to we were able to help them recognize was that we were able to provide incentives to the volunteers from a competitive perspective by putting up there the you know sort of on a chart that was shared that the various areas of focus like the the procurement and the training and we even put up the the number of of units that we had produced for for the day for the weekend there was a weekend where everybody came together the community helped build these units and we we reported in both of those ways we had the people responsible for training you know we actually went to an amber color once and it made somebody very upset but it it also helped them understand that we really needed to to make sure that we got that done before so it would be useful there's no reason to the impact is so little if we were to provide the units without the training and so when they saw that there was there was that risk there there was the the amber color they didn't want that associated with their project or their area I should say of expertise and so they were incented to keep it green and so we used it from that perspective but then also the the reporting showing all right we're at 50 units now we're at 100 units now and and that was exactly what happened is the first time around we did 100 units and or actually the very first time we did three units the next time around we did 100 units and then the final trip over there were a thousand units and in order to scale like that we needed to have those proofs of concept we needed to to go through and have everybody very clearly aware of what their responsibilities were and I think the status reporting the the traffic light report was very helpful with that let's go to the next slide okay and then the last phase transition enclosure as a project managers well as soon as you have delivered everything sometimes you need to transition things to life cycle or to the organization and then of course the last portion the closure some of the key components is to document lessons learned gather lessons learned with the project team and also with your stakeholders and of course in the end the project closure so summarize your project and and then have formal close with your project sponsor and or customer for that so can we go to the next slide so lessons learned basically it's what worked well right what worked well what could we have done better what type of risks materialized did we encounter issues were there any obstacles happening to achieve the full project and also recommendations so what would you recommend going forward so if someone has a similar type of project or a similar type of activity are there any recommendations you would do to your future project team and also in did the project achieve the intended impact so we talk often as well on benefits we have our deliverables and in the end you want to achieve benefits and impact you want to make did the project achieve that and how can you measure it going forward and are there any recommendations in relation to that because if you document all these lessons learned it's good for as a project manager for your experience and for the next project but also yeah also for the next project that you can learn about that Diana can you give some examples absolutely so this is this is an interesting example in my mind because the Rotary Club as I noted has done lots of small projects and it's always a different person it's always a different project they identify the location the community they will support they identify the solution all differently and they did not have an appetite to record any lessons learned the people who were there involved weren't interested in in doing this project they were going to go off and do something in front and interesting in this particular case that the lessons learned was not something that they were interested in doing but I think it could have been valuable but I also see where in their situation from the perspective of the few volunteers that we had as our as our point of contact that that wasn't something that they would like to do I've seen that also in business I've worked for lots of large companies and large companies tend to do lessons learned the smaller ones don't tend to they think that it's kind of like this small project so I want to provide one more example in this case and that was for actually a different partner that we had which was FDL Health a health organization with hospitals and things like that the project was to take equipment that was in a hospital that was that was decommissioned they created a built a new hospital next door and they were not going to move the equipment so they were planning on shipping that equipment to Tanzania for some clinics there and what we ended up doing is working with them after you know during the whole thing I won't go into those details but in the end we had those conversations with them we said what did you learn what went well what didn't go well what was the impact of your work what were the benefits of what happened and what we ended up doing was in is putting that into an impact report and that impact report shared what the value was not just for the beneficiaries not just for those patients in Tanzania but for the doctors in Tanzania that learned a new skill that have new training for the new doctors that came to that clinic for the people who were the volunteers from the from scl health the doctors that actually flew over to Tanzania to to provide the training to give examples of procedures to really help them identify how to use the equipment the new equipment that was there that that we had shipped over and so it wasn't just and the it people there were it people that went over to put it all together make it all work and we provided information on the impact to them as well they appreciated their work with scl health more because they could make an impact to a community they they weren't of course they were providing impact in their day jobs but they were able to provide an impact that was above and beyond and that really made them appreciate their work more it made them look at their jobs differently at their employers differently so a point I wanted to make there is there's just it's not just the impact for those that are the beneficiaries it's everybody involved all of the stakeholders and then one last point there it was a huge success story this was a mission that they did every other year and in this case they the management of scl health wasn't sure that it was that it was worthwhile to support this endeavor in you know after they finished the last one and what the organization the management did that worked with this project is they took our impact report to the leadership of the organization and showed the impact showed what we measured showed the impact on their employees on the doctors there and here and the the patients and that actually was the key bit of information that helped the leadership identify that they would continue with the program because of that value if they hadn't recorded it if they hadn't put it put that in writing then they wouldn't have been able to continue with the program and continue to provide those benefits and that impact that we were able to document and share so that was a huge win from a lessons learned perspective and sharing impact for that particular partner let's go to the next slide okay and then last one the project closure of course you need to ensure that you have obtained your approval from the customer or your and your sponsor and your donor formally to close the project and then with all the documentation you created ensure that you share that on a shared yeah retain that on a shared drive or a shared area and of course there's one additional item you need to ensure you finalize close the procurements before you close your project right especially if you're working with third party suppliers but in the closure document yeah mention what happened during the project where the deviation to the project to a criteria to your objectives your deliverables any time cost what happened with the risk did you identify all of them were there let's say issues of items you didn't identify and also was the effectiveness of your response or your plan to mitigate and yeah change the the risk impact were they effective yes or no and indeed include all the lessons learned so overall you have your closure documentation and yeah what we do within business we have a shared location to retain this project history because again if you we go back into the initiation we use that as a start of a project to see on the shared location are there any similar type projects because not sometimes you are assigned you haven't done a certain type of project yet so you need to learn that and this yeah let's say project history and documentation is you very useful for any new project so this is the project closure so now we are opening up for questions before we do that Nadine will send out a survey to talk about lessons learned we are we would appreciate if you can provide us feedback on the content so we have a couple of questions because yeah we would like to improve as well our education and understand what you yeah what your feedback is of this session so Nadine will send that out probably in the next week to all of you to provide us feedback so let's open up for questions


If you're looking for a video on a specific topic, simply type in what you're looking for in my channel, Search Bar, and if I have videos addressing that topic, it will take you right to them. What's up, you guys? It's Adana. I am back with another PA Q&A video for you guys. If you do have questions that you want answered on a future PA Q&A video, go ahead and leave those in the comment section right now and subscribe if you haven't already done so. Hi, Adana, what are the rules regarding family emergencies or needing time off? For example, a death in the family or if a student gets ill and needs to stay home for a period of time. Question mark, thank you. So there are stipulations, you know, like for me specifically, I can only talk about my school, but for me, we get two days that we are able to miss school for like, you know, like an excused absence or so. Those are days that we can take if there is like a, we can't take it on a test day or anything of that nature, but we have two days each semester that we can take. After those two days, if you go over those two days, it's kind of all now up to the school board or, you know, the directors of the program or the director of didactic gear. So it's all dependent on the situation. I know that I spoke to a director at another program and she was telling me that one of her students actually like had a baby was, you know, like was pregnant and or well, one of her mentees was pregnant. And so she had to actually kind of withdraw from school for a little bit, but she still held her place.  So there are stipulations and there are like areas where they will give you a free pass. You just kind of have to make sure that you make everything known. Whatever information they asked for, I know when I was in undergrad and someone passed away and I went to the funeral, they required like a funeral, like the funeral pamphlet to make sure that we weren't like just trying to get out of school or take the test early.  But if that's what the school needs, then make sure that you're ready and able and available to provide them with all of that information. But they are pretty good with respect to allowing you to miss certain days for valid reasons. So no worries. How do you make the time to make YouTube videos during PA school? Love your videos. How do I make the time to make YouTube videos? Okay guys, so I know you and many of these, like you guys asked me this question and you guys love the videos and I cannot take all the credit. My husband, husband is amazing. Okay. He is an amazing producer. He has done two movies in the past and I was actually a producer on those movies. So I'm really excited about that just to share that little tidbit of information with you all. But he actually is a movie director and he's an actor and a writer. He has all of the knowledge to help me out because I'm like little old me, super social media, not savvy. I'm really about the books, but he's the one who helps me out a lot you guys.  I will just kind of knock some videos out on Sundays, different questions that you guys may have, maybe different ideas that I came up with on my own, that questions that I had when I was going into PA school and I do those videos and then I just kind of shuttle them off to him and Ant takes care of the rest. Like he does all of the editing. He takes care of the music. He does any of the little like sometimes you have heard of voiceover here and there. That's him. Like he does an amazing job. I just kind of have to come back on the back and be like, oh yeah, that's cute. I love that. And I really don't even have to do that because it's amazing once he does it and once he's finished with it. But after he does that, we just kind of put it in the queue and it's ready and set and available. So that I don't necessarily have to do a video for another four weeks or, you know, another two weeks, depending on how many I made on that weekend or on those times when I actually have like a break. So during spring break, I made some videos and during my Christmas break, I made videos, that kind of thing. So yes, it seems like I'm kicking out these videos like left and right. And I'm in school. Like how am I passing?  Like I have help. Okay. I have a team, a team of one called Anthony and he helps me tremendously. So that is how I make YouTube videos while in PA school. How is work life balance for PAs compared to physicians? I know you are still in school, but how much flexibility are you expecting?  He may be on for like a week or so, but then he's off for a week and a half or something along those lines. So it's it, I expect that my life is going to be just all the better. It's going to be amazing. You guys, I expect that I'm going to have a lot of flexibility. There are a lot of PAs that I do know, like a good, a fair amount of PAs that I know, and they're fairly, they have their life seems amazing. Like they're traveling, they're on vacation, they're coming in like nine to five or, you know, three to 11, three to 10, that kind of thing, or a seven to three. And after that their day is done. And then they may be off a day and then come in on the next day. So it's all a matter of kind of where you're working. If you want a more like regimented schedule, obviously like work and, you know, you don't necessarily want to work weekends of stuff, you kind of have to look and see what kind of job you want. So family practice, that kind of thing, you can work at the urgent care and the urgent care that I used to work at their hours are like eight to three, eight to two, and then three to 10 or something along those lines. So it was really kind of just go with the flow. Maybe you might want to work a double that day.  So I really expect it to be extremely flexible. That's why I chose the profession. And so far it seems like it's going to be that way. Unless I'm working in something that's super like high acuity type of thing. I don't really think that that's what's going to happen. But I'm, I'm expecting a lot of flexibility and that is why I chose this profession. So if you're looking for flexibility, definitely come over here to the PA side because that is like our middle name PA flexibility. I guess that would be our last name. Yeah. All right. It will bottom me a good route to go. Do most schools accept it as PCE? I plan to get my CNA and use it next summer. Maybe I just want to have varied experience. All right. So yes, full bottom me is a good route to take for PA school PCE experience. Now, when I say most schools take full bottom me as your patient care experience, I mean that as like most schools, I don't know if all schools do it. I don't know which schools personally does it. This is like per cast was little information. And then just from what I've seen on different schools websites, but you have to do it yourself. You have to go and do the research yourself and call the schools that you're interested in and say, Hey, I'm a phlebotomist, but I'm also going to be a CNA. Does my phlebotomy training count as patient care experience? But from what I understand you are, you're literally like touching the patient, you're drawing blood, like that actually counts. Okay. So you should have no problems with that. But just to be on the safe side, go ahead, call the school, make sure you know for sure. And everything will, you'll have no questions because it's coming straight from that program. All right. Hey, well, thank you guys so much for sending these questions. Again, if you have any questions that you want me to answer in the future on a future video, go ahead and leave those in the comment section right now. And if you haven't already answered, go ahead and follow me on Instagram at adana the PA. Thanks again for joining me on this journey. I will talk to you guys next time. Bye