ABSTRACT
Following the discussion in the previous chapter about the variety of events specialists are responsible for organising, we come to more of the essential considerations when planning, delivering and evaluating such projects. As projects, events generally have fixed budgets, precise timelines, and limited resources, including employees, suppliers, venues and volunteers. Organisers of such events are therefore responsible for the management and delivery of projects. Project management has developed processes and techniques to help plan, organise, lead and control events, and it can be used to make event projects more successful. This chapter discusses these techniques outside of the simple application of limited, functional management theories and argues that, when applied correctly, event project management can produce better and faster results to plan and deliver events.
