Series · One part every Tuesday
Utah business, run like a project
A local series on running a Utah business with the tools of project management: a 30-day start plan, the support that exists in the state, hiring, operations that scale and how the region is changing.
How it will work
- Five parts, each one a small project with an owner, a date and a scoreboard.
- Every part points to official sources and local organizations, with the date I checked them.
- Where rules or fees matter, you are sent to the official page or a licensed professional.
The case
The first part is a 30-day start plan. The related guides below cover the 90-day sprint, governance, capacity and staffing.
The outline
5 parts, one every week.
The first part is planned for Tue Oct 27 and the last for Tue Nov 24. Titles and dates may change as I write. Each part links here as soon as it is published, and the series calendar shows all five series together.
- 01Starting: a 30-day plan with the official stepsTue Oct 27
- 02Money and support: SBDC, SBA and local resourcesTue Nov 3
- 03Hiring and staffing in a tight labor marketTue Nov 10
- 04Operations that scale from 3 to 30 peopleTue Nov 17
- 05Growing with the region: the 2034 Games, construction and tourismTue Nov 24
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Information only. Rules, fees and deadlines change; confirm them with the official source or a licensed professional before acting.
Read meanwhile
Guides that already cover parts of this.
The 90-Day Sprint: How Startups Use Project Focus to Find Their First Customers
Ninety days, three projects, one scoreboard. A practical way for startups to build leads, operations and sales at the same time.
Interactive tool: Build your 90-day sprint
12
Project Governance for Small Teams: Just Enough Structure
Governance sounds heavy, but a small team needs five things: clear roles, a decision rhythm, decision rights, simple gates and a record of choices.
Interactive tool: Governance check
14
Capacity Planning: Find the Bottleneck Before It Finds You
Every team has one constraint that sets its speed. See it, protect it and plan around it instead of asking everyone to run faster.
Interactive tool: Capacity health check
22
Staffing Without the Chaos: Project Management for Workforce Companies
Staffing is a project with a new deadline every day. How to run placements, onboarding and scheduling without the firefighting.
Interactive tool: Find your slowest stage
17
Your Restaurant Is a Project (and So Is Your Tuesday)
A restaurant is a thousand tiny deadlines a day. Project management turns the chaos into a rhythm.
Interactive tool: Backward-planned service
More in the guides library and the free templates. Also coming: One project, step by step, through the PMBOK lens, Project Focus for business success, Construction project management, from a civil engineer's desk, AI for small business, step by step.
Next step
Let's find the project that moves your business.
Tell me where things are stuck. I will tell you which project I would start with.