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Sharepoint is a great project management tool, most especially for eLearning. Our online department utilizes it to manages tasks and build online resources for the department. It's a great place to share files and also comment on those files. It has discussion boards and announcement boards. Users can view files and edit them with versioning.

I agree that SharePoint is a great collaboration tool, although it's nice to have someone around who is an expert with using it. Sometimes it can be a little hard to handle. My favorite thing about SharePoint is that you can set up a workflow where a project manager can approve all document updates and new content before it goes live on the site. The manager can even leave comments to help the person revamp their submission. It's a great cloud-based collaboration and information management tool!

I agree, Melissa - it is a great tool but a bit cumbersome. We have a Sharepoint SME in our office who is working on revamping all of our sites. I am hoping it will make our teams use their sites to their fuller potential. If you have a content management plan, it is fantastic - but it can spiral out of control very quickly!

MindMeister is a leading online mind mapping tool, allowing individuals from around the world to simultaneously collaborate on problem solving, business planning, note taking, etc. with nothing more than a browser and an internet connection. We've taken cues from the scientifically proven mind mapping methodology, and applied them to an easy-to-use, online application.

Jennifer, I posted a tool very similar. I really love mind mapping and think it has huge benefits in the area of project management. It is nice when multiple people can work on the same visual. These maps help you to organized your ideas and see potential problems. Both huge things in Project Management.

PM4NGOs (Project Management for Non-Governmental Organizations) aims to optimize international NGO project investments by enabling project managers to be reflective, professional practitioners who learn, operate and adapt effectively in complex project environments. As a group of international relief, development, and conservation organizations, PM4NGOs works together and collaborates with private sector companies, professional organizations, and universities to achieve this goal.

This was a blog post comparing three different PM Software tools. She makes a point of stating that "These are suggestions for businesses or entrepreneurs that are not focused on development work."

I've found a number of helpful and informative articles here.

What a great resource! I especially enjoyed the article on "socializing" LMS. We are having this exact discussion at work right now. Thanks for sharing!

New technologies, revelations in behavioural science and changing cultures are generating exciting advances in the world of project management. In this article, I'll take a dive into five concepts that are creating buzz in the project management community, why they are important and what difference they're making in project work today.

I really like this one! Thanks for another great read! #3 is especially good!

Agreed - it is nice to read something forward-thinking.

I have a hard time deciding whether "versus" is a good word to compare the two roles. On one hand, the project manager and business analyst should be working collaboratively. On the other hand, the two roles do offer a healthy contest in project related decisions.

As our list of tools, programs and sites keeps growing, so does our list of passwords. KeePass is an open-source password manager that allows you to safely store all of your passwords so you can free up mental space for more interesting work! You can keep the file in the cloud if you wish, so it is available on all of your devices.

This is great! Being able to access on all devices is key, I am totally using this, thank you!

Great concise article on conflict management with specific strategic tips. The goal is not just to resolve conflict, but rather to work through conflict toward a productive outcome.

Great article. I love the very first point - finding the common goal to concentrate on, and using your empathy to approach your adversary as you would a friend.

Perhaps this is an obvious post, but I still run across people who don't have a searchable, organized or unorganized online notebook, notepad, or repository of anything and all things you want to remember or keep track of. I've used it for smaller projects, to contain all of the lengthy articulations that are then hyperlinked to more formal Word documents or Excel charts. It's a phenomenally useful tool.

I love Evernote because it's accessible from several mobile devices. I especially like their app (I'm using Android), because it's easy to use and fast. You could add multiple people to the account and share checklists, wiki-like notes pages, and calendar items. I'm not sure it would be ideal for huge projects with many parts, but it would be perfect for organizing a small collaboration or just for organizing your own work.

Michael, Thanks for sharing this app and your experience with it. This tool sounds just like the tool I need to track and remember all my pending tasks.

Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) is an alternate method of planning and managing projects with an emphasis on the resources required to execute project tasks rather than upon what the traditional WBS encapsulates.

This was interesting! I liked all of the statistics about why projects fail. Being new to all this, it gives me further insight on structuring projects.

Wow, it is hard to believe how many different methodologies there are out there! This one seems really different. I can see how it would be suited for some types of projects, like those with a tangible end product, but I wonder how well it would work with eLearning?

BrightHubPM.com covers all aspects of project management, from introductory articles on the basics, to in-depth articles on strategic planning. Experienced project managers share what's worked and what hasn't, as well as provide objective reviews of PM tools, both OEM and open source. Follow us online or open a discussion in the comments.

Cost overruns on a new Veterans Affairs hospital on the Fitzsimons campus seem to indicate fundamental blunders in oversight. Mismanagement leads to a 67% cost overrun and project not near completion.

A 67% cost overrun and the project still not completed is absolutely outrageous!

Ouch. I work on the Fitz campus and was wondering what was taking them so long. Bad!

Easy, professional online project management software with integrated features for scheduling, collaboration, time tracking, analytics and reporting. Mobile apps available.

I posted this in our class discussion, but it occurred to me that it is really a great project management resource for those people who might feel daunted by difficult conversations. It it a resource that will help improve your EQ. In short, the book talks about how to identify when a crucial conversation needs to take place, how to plan for it and how to execute it. There is also a two day course that you can attend or maybe even lobby to bring into your office for PMs. The website for that is here: http://www.vitalsmarts.com/products-solutions/crucial-conversations/ You'll also find that Vital Smarts, the company that produces this training, has a lot of other EQ related resources.

We have a couple of copies of this book lying around my office. I hadn't connected it to project management. I will have to check it out.

Many people I worked with at the Colorado Department of health use this approach. The state has invested in offering the course to employees. While I never had a chance to take this course, I've heard really great things about it. One thing that has made a difference for people I know who have done this, they did with a staff team. That way everyone is using a common approach. That seems to really support implementing what they learned.

Features of a true servant leader "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea", these are the words of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, one of my favorite writers, which can consolidate the philosophy behind a term - servant leadership.

The topic of leadership has appeared several times in our class discussions. This book by Daniel Goleman is a wonderful book on leadership based on his work with Emotional Intelligence. I've found it to be one that I return to to read and get grounded when struggling with my own leadership or that of others. Well worth purchasing and adding to your professional library.

Want to learn more about Daniel Goleman's work? Try following him on linkedIn! He posted many interesting articles and blogs posts that have been very helpful in expanding my thinking about Emotional Intellegence. An interesting one he recently posted is "Be Mindful of the Emotions" you leave behind. Daniel Goleman lectures frequently to business audiences, professional groups and on college campuses. A psychologist who for many years reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times, Dr. Goleman previously was a visiting faculty member at Harvard.