Project Management Knowledgebase

I am reading the book written by the founder of this group. It is an enjoyable read and this company also runs a helpful blog. I think it is great for people and organizations that feel challenged by having those difficult conversations.

Looks interesting. Seems like a good communication resource.

Looks like a good support system for project managers!

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 :)

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!

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.

This is a 52 minute YouTube video from Dr. Medina on the brain rules that influence our behavior, learning, etc.

This page of the AMA site is a great resource for refresher topics and new perspectives on management.

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.

This site offers a nice succinct, streamlined, one page PM process break down; summarized in a flow chart with links to each individual stage of the process. It also has additional links for PM books, services, and templates. A useful link for getting people started in PM.

Wow, John, what a find! I wish I had this a few months ago when we started this course. I've been looking for a simple visual that still manages to encompass most of the detail that goes into the project process. I love the printable color-coded version (http://www.consulting.ky/files/project_management_process_diagram_large.jpg). I plan on hanging that up in my office. I could also print a copy for each project, and use it as a sort of checklist. The other things I love about the site is that it lists specific deliverables for each stage. Love it! It's definitely more usable than the visuals in our Carroll book, since it's more detailed.

Thanks, this looks to be an excellent resource, and it has that guy on the side that looks at your pointer.

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

Fun and Memorable Connected Mind makes serious learning fun and memorable for everyone by radically changing computer based mind mapping and brainstorming. Do you want a mind map that is fun to draw and easy to remember? Do you want to be creative with your brainstorming but still have the underlying structure and discipline of a computer based mind map? Try out Connected Mind today. Revolutionary free hand drawing

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

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.

TaskJuggler is a modern and powerful, Free and Open Source Software project management tool. Its new approach to project planning and tracking is more flexible and superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools. TaskJuggler is project management software for serious project managers. It covers the complete spectrum of project management tasks from the first idea to the completion of the project. It assists you during project scoping, resource assignment, cost and revenue planning, risk and communication management.

TaskJuggler is a modern and powerful, Free and Open Source Software project management tool. Its new approach to project planning and tracking is more flexible and superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools. TaskJuggler is project management software for serious project managers.

FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations. This tool is open source and free to download and install.

I am always looking for an alternative to using dropbox with google docs with basecamp - for example. This service looks interesting and I may try it out as an alternative.

There is mention of another Mindjet product from a few years back already mentioned here but I thought I would at this. They have really done a lot with this and it is great for people that are visual thinkers.

I'm very interested in Agile project management because I think visibility is improved, and this website is one of many that enhances visibility even more. I like it because of the clean layout and the intuitive nature. You can color code each team member and see what everyone is doing, making team meetings more effective. There is a 14 day trial, so it's worth trying out for a small portion of a project.

Andi, I like this site a lot! Thanks for sharing! It looks very useful for each group project in this course. Also the introductory video gave me some ideas for our prototype : )

This app looks very interesting for a group project similar to the one we are developing in our course. According to the description it is a browser that integrates project management. Springloop has a intuitive and user friendly interface, base-camp feature, and templates available for creating new projects. It has a free plan as well as paid plans that include a free 30-day trial.

Rosanna, this is a very helpful resource. I am so dependent on wordpress or dynamod for web development, but I would love to go to the next level for some projects and this seems like a good place to start. I really like the rocket ship theme, too!

This is a tool that I wanted to share because I know in ILT a lot of people tout using Adobe Captivate for various projects. I recently came across Active Presenter, which has a no-time-limit free version that does all of the basic features of Captivate, most notably screen capturing. One of the obstacles I run into with project management is having everyone on a project team understand how to use various resources. If you have an SME who would be willing to make a quick screen capture of how to use a tool and record it using this program, it will save a lot of time getting everyone on the same page.

Time saver and better screen capturing than Captivate? I must try it!

This site has a lot of great media resources. It includes two podcasts (a PM 101 for beginners and a more advanced one) which both have multiple casts. It also includes Google Hangouts that the host has put together, which speak to many topics related to Project Management. The Hangout pages include videos of the sessions, and suggested websites and books that came up during the videos. This is a great way to listen to experienced PMs and benefit from their list of recommended resources. An added bonus is that the site itself recommends related content and postings at the bottoms of pages, so you can easily browse around for information that interests you.

This is a pretty neat concept. Have you used it much? I would be interested in hearing some first hand feedback - but maybe I'll check it out and then we can discuss further!

Melissa, thanks for sharing I like the approach to search for resources that suits your specific needs.