Project Management Knowledgebase

This site has rich resources on EI, including articles grouped by category, references, and even some reprints. A good place to look for seminal resources such as Goleman.

Article about using emotional intelligence in managing elearning. "Feelings have value," "Thinking and feeling are not opposites."

This article argues the case for successful strategic planning vs. diving in and hoping your project will be a success. -Duncan McBogg

This article illustrates how successful eLearning project management is directly tied to University culture and processes. I found the "Tactics and Technique" section particularly enlightening. -Duncan McBogg Abstract: Iain Doherty VOL. 24, No. 1, 91 - 106 We outline the project management tactics that we developed in praxis in order to manage elearning projects and show how our tactics were enhanced through implementing project management techniques from a formal project management methodology. Two key factors have contributed to our project management success.

Here is a free communication plan template laid out in Microsoft Excel. The template was provided to Microsoft by PCub3d, a project management consulting company.

This article, written by PCub3d, a project management consulting company, for Microsoft, provides a general overview of the importance and structure for communication planning in project management.

A short wiki on the definition of project management of instructional design projects.

This article describes the stages of project management and instructional design. It outlines and compares the roles of project managers and instructional designers, and discusses how designers need to use a systematic approach.

This resources discusses bridging the gap between instructional design and project management.

This resources provides beneficial information on the effective stages of project management in a technology-driven world.

Great article on creating a positive environment with employees as people and recources, rather than as worker bees.

A checklist with 8 general quality standards for evaluating the design of online learning.

I love practical tools like this. I can easily see tweeking this a little and using it as part of my team's process. I'll add this to the stack for my case study.

This is a great example of a quality checklist. It can be modified for various uses.

Make sure your team-building event has a purpose. You've probably been involved in a team-building exercise at some point. Perhaps it was a weekend retreat, or an afternoon at the climbing gym learning to rely on one another, or a day on the golf course getting to know everyone.

Building Relationships in Project Management Get the PDF Version By Michael L Young

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! aizen is the engine of competitiveness in the Toyota Production System. It can have the same effect on the how we do our projects. Literature is thin on the topic.

In this article, Preetam Kaushik explains what Kaizen is and how it is used in project management. It is an introduction to Kaizen - a philosophy developed by engineers while manufacturing cars at Toyota. It basically involves continuous improvements in all stages of any process with every small improvement making its own contribution to the final process.

In an earlier post I called kaizen a numbers game. I've often been asked to explain that. Some people have the notion that we only want the really good ideas or improvements. The little ones are just not that important. This view is particularly prominent in the project setting.

This is an extensive article in the form of a presentation about eLearning Project Management. It has some great charts and graphs showing the compromises needed such as the image showing the compromise between time, quality, and money.

Hi Naomi -- great addition. I especially like the section about common pitfalls. Were there any other accompanying materials to this like a video or paper?