Talk:Project management within volunteering organisations

Feedback by Lasse Madsen

• I will review the article as it is now. It seems like it is not completely done :-) Keep up the good spirit!

Formal aspects

• The grammatical and spelling in the article is very fine, however some sentences can become a bit long, where I miss some "," or division into paragraphs. An example is: "Communication covers both the top down communication from management and the communication between the project leaders and the project team members about the tasks of the team member." from the section: Communication.
• I miss references to the figures in the text. And also the context of the figures.
• It seems like the author has made the figures him/herself which is positive. It makes sure that there is no conflicting copyrights.
• Overall structure i miss some more WIKI formatting, ie.
  • bullet points (*),
  • Categories: [[Categories:Management]]
  • References: [[project management]]
  • Additional reading section
• My suggestion will be to put the introduction before the list of content to make a read-threat
  • Also to add a "readers guide" on how the article will be structured, and what the reader can expect.

Content aspects

• The first thing that i noticed was the sources used to support the main arguments in the article. I miss academic sources, ie. looking into 'project management in volunteering organizations' from Journals, DTU Findit or Google Scholar or similar. An example could be to provide a literature review and then comparing it to the method used by the danish scouts. Then reflections and a discussion on how they could improve their methods. On a quick search i found:
  • Hager, Mark A. "Volunteer management practices and retention of volunteers." (2004).
  • Cuskelly, Graham, et al. "Volunteer management practices and volunteer retention: A human resource management approach." Sport Management Review 9.2 (2006): 141-163.
  • Ellis, Susan J. From the top down. The executive role in volunteer program success. Energize, Inc., 5450 Wissahickon Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144, 1996.
  • Taylor, Tracy, et al. "Using psychological contract theory to explore issues in effective volunteer management." European Sport Management Quarterly 6.2 (2006): 123-147.
• I seem to miss a direct link between the article content and the course. Maybe you could include it in the introduction.
• I seem to miss the point where i as a practitioner could actually use this method or example in relation to my PPP practice. Maybe you could elaborate on this or give an example on how this could be used in a PPPM context.
• Generelly I miss some more references.

1 Leading without classic authority

• Maybe a bit about how the article will be structured, otherwise fine :-)