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inmotion by inMotionNow is a software used to make it easy to get control of your projects and deliver critical insight into your productivity. Here is the website: http://inmotionnow.com.

Simple and powerful, Agilefant is the most advanced open source web based tool for agile management today, with a rapidly growing user base and a dedicated community behind it. Unlike most tools, Agilefant scales from personal todo-lists to large-scale multi-team development projects and all the way to long-term product and portfolio management needed for true organization-wide agility.

CNVC is a steward of the integrity of the NVC process and a nexus point of NVC-related information and resources, including training, conflict resolution, and organizational consulting services. CNVC's mission is to contribute to more sustainable, compassionate, and "life-serving" human relations in the realms of both personal relationship and social systems and structures, such as business/economics, education, justice, healthcare, and peace-keeping.

Web-based project and task management software for your team. Includes a variety of charts, templates and tools to monitor deadlines.

This looks like a good tool, but hard to say with only a 14 day free trial. I would like a 60 day free trial :)

yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams. Create diagrams manually, or import your external data for analysis. Our automatic layout algorithms arrange even large data sets with just the press of a button. Great for making those WBSs and free to boot

Embrace agile and get into the action. Many project professionals see the growing demand in organizations for an agile approach to project management. When you add agile methodologies to your toolbox of project management practices, you'll have greater breadth as a project manager.

Understanding and playing to peoples strengths is key. When people on a team recognize both their own and others strengths then assign tasks accordingly then the team works better and projects are completed at a high level of quality.

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.

Brain Rules by John J. Medina is a multimedia project explaining how the brain works. It includes a book, a feature-length documentary film, and a series of interactive tutorials. *Information in this book helps PM's to understand some of the dynamics of the human brain and to reflect on how making small changes can have lasting effects. Example - having a meeting while going for a walk or that vision trumps all other senses.*

Interesting information.

This is one of my favorite books. I didn't know there was a site- thanks for sharing!

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.

B Busco/ Photographer's Choice/ Getty Images A successful Project Manager must effectively manage the resources assigned to the project. This includes the labor hours of the designers, the builders, the testers and the inspectors on the project team. It also include managing any labor subcontracts. However, managing project resources frequently involves more than people management.

Continuation of the Project Management 101 - Part 1 link, that includes more in depth topics and additional related links.

A successful Project Manager must simultaneously manage the four basic elements of a project: resources, time, money, and most importantly, scope. All these elements are interrelated. Each must be managed effectively. All must be managed together if the project, and the project manager, is to be a success.

Basic Project management information with links to related topics

I am posting this for the visual learners and others who like infographics. It gives evidence of the benefits of Emotional Intelligence in the workplace and personal life.

very useful infographic.

I like this. I'm very visual, and I appreciated the visual/artistic approach to this post!

This blog post discusses the five key points to consider when trying to increase emotional intelligence.

Here is a link to a waterfall PM model. Although maybe over simplistic, I like the fact that is suggests a phase can't start until a the previous is completed. You also find the spiral model that suggests that we go through specific phases again and again-at first take, I find this spiral model a bit worrisome. It lacks defined milestones and benchmarks, and perhaps it implies a ambiguity when it comes to roles.

A complete guide to reduce fat and make yourself healthy without any damage of your body organs.You can also learn some food recopies.

I am curious to know if anyone has tried this. I think the idea of badges and games in project management is intriguing. RedCritter Tracker is Agile Project Management unlike anything you've ever experienced. Get drag-and-drop project management, Twitter-style message feeds, badges for your accomplishments and even your own company rewards store.

Red Critter sounds and looks like an intuitive tool when it come to building your project team, organizing and assigning their tasks, and keeping key players engaged and motivated.

Jeff Sutherland created Scrum, so go to the source. He and Ken Schwaber wrote and currently maintain this guide.

I am very interested in Scrum. Thank you for posting. I also found this site: http://www.projectsatwork.com/.

I like scrum simply because I want the title of Scrum Master.

This is a web application tool for resourcing a project and better understanding company-wide resource allocation. From a user testimonial: "The only downside is that it is Flash based and it has been known to crash within certain browsers and especially on a Mac. In saying that, the company that developed this is constantly pushing out bug fixes and new feature sets." o Report Feature.

I know someone posted about google docs, but this resource contains many apps that can be used within the Google docs framework, so you can more easily collaborate, but still have a framework to start with.