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This downloadable e-book by Wayne Turk, an accomplished management and project management expert with 35 years experience, addresses project management skills and provides suggestions, ideas, guidelines and warnings. I believe this book and author are deserving of inclusion in this data base because it is made available by the American Society for Quality.

This is a resource for students which describe different topics in project management. The resource discusses different methodologies and covers many areas of within PM to include scope management, cost management, communications management, etc.

PMI is a non-profit membership association for the project management profession. Thet are advocates for project management and havecreated globally recognized standards and credentials.

This is a cool trimmed down list of great project management tips. It's broken down into sections including, Five Ways to Avoid Project Disaster.

This site offers a whole host of tools that are helpful--in addition to other content and guidance. Here is the description from their site: The purpose of the tools and resources feature is to provide assessment instruments and various group process and project management aids that will help Higher Education institutions better manage their most critical technology projects. This Month's Featured Tool Intervention Diagnosis and Planning Tool This management development tool helps the manager discern the type of intervention assistance that is situationally appropriate for their leaders.

Good tips on how to problem-solve as a project manager. These seem to be geared more towards corporate settings, but could be adapted for educational settings as well. - Sara Lohndorf

Yup - the same people who publish the books in that series provide a free online resource with specific topics (e.g., "developing meaningful project objectives," "performing a cost-benefit analysis," "how to plan project execution"). It's not the PMBOK, but it's an easy to use and easy to digest collection of good information.

This looks like a great resource to learn project management from scratch. Since so many details go into project management, I think this would be the ideal reference for me, since it breaks it down for the novices. Thanks for sharing!

I came across this and looked at it just because it had a unique name, but when I opened it, it is actually helpful. It is a search engine to help you search the topic at hand. There are several links (including a free booklet) on project management.

This website looks like a great resource for project managers by offering some very unique courses in this profession.

This is a specialized site in project management practice that provides a central site tool, references, news, projects, training offers and many other resources to help people interested in joining a PM community online. Their mission description is to help project managers be successful mainly by providing connections, information, technology resources, and advice. I found this page very helpful in this area and with a good collaborative and iterative structure.

Project management tools helps your organization to quickly set up and manage projects from start to finish to boost your productivity.

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.

There is a huge variety of project management applications out there. Most are general purpose apps, not aimed at any one industry. But there are a growing number of project management apps aimed specifically at one industry or another. Applications geared toward creative types are becoming more readily available, and some of the offerings are really quite good.

I love Smashing Magazine. A great resource for anything in digital design! This is a nice article.

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?

Great software to use for organizing projects- manage projects, manage task lists, schedule milestones, add milestones, time tracking, upload files, manage people, e-mail integration, multi-language support

This is a link for the University of Michigan Project Management Methodology - designed for use in managing the Information and Technology Services (ITS) projects. This site has several document templates with column descriptions to help with comprehension of different steps for managing projects. It has a nice excel template for project deliverables for people who need a little help getting the ball rolling in excel.

New features of this version are : Checklists management Improvements on Financial parts : Management of Quotations, new fields on Order, copy Quotation into Order GUI Improvements : size of icons for menu and toolbar, avoid "confirm page closure" Ease in managing hierarchic items from project : copy affectations

This looks like a very useful site. I wish I had seen it before we did our project!

Website contains the latest project management articles all in one place from multiple sites. It's pretty neat!

I really like this site! So much to read.... so little time!

Corporate Education Group (CEG) offers exceptional courses, training, and certificate programs in the areas of project management, business analysis, business process management, and management and leadership.

Hootsuite is a media management tool that could be useful in communication, collaboration and stakeholder buy in. You can schedule updates and communication in one spot to share with others over multiple social networks such as twitter, linked in or facebook.

teaching children project management through designing a video game. This is something I do now with my students. The video discusses the process of creating and setting up the video game as project managers. How they problem solve issues along with creating the game.