Project Management Knowledgebase

It is a OK article. I read it for a short summary.

Comprehensive hints and tips for anyone involved in managing projects - intended for new and experienced project managers.

I came across this Word file while doing some research on change mitigation. It's from the North Carolina Enterprise Project Management Office site. It has a lot of sample documents on managing project change as well as some theory.

I've used this simple To Do list program for several years. It includes a task list, a calendar view and a Gantt chart. Probably not something to use with enormous complicated projects, but I use it for a lot of different things. It is a free utility that runs from an executable rather than installing a full program which makes it easy to give it a test run.

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!

A stakeholder is an individual who is affected by or who can affect a project's outcome. Stakeholders shape projects in the early stages, ensuring resources are available to contribute to project ...

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.

Just in case someone has been living under a rock, I'm adding this. I can't tell you how many times people at work email files hundreds of times when we could all just collaborate in Google Docs. We used Google Hangouts to chat in former projects and could actually see when each other was typing something. Love it!

I agree with Jen. While GoogleDocs is a great time saver I wish you could do more with formatting, pasting, etc. The formatting also differs if you download the doc onto a Mac which can be a pain when working with a group. Overall, though I think it is a worthwhile collaborative tool.

Good call. My team spent an entire meeting demonstrating how to use Live Meeting via Outlook, only to later find out that it costs our company each time we initiate a call. I mentioned Hangouts as an alternative, and nobody had any idea what I was talking about, despite the fact that all of my teammates have Gmail. Yikes! Sometimes its scary how much we don't know!

In research and and evaluation these checklists can be incredibly useful. It may be a stretch to apply them to project mgmt for instructional design but there are many links to proposal development that are thought provoking.

Principles to explore with your team.

Kirkpatrick's four-level training evaluation model can help you analyze the effectiveness and impact of your training.

This website contains a free guide to project management and also links to other related resources. There is also a recruitment section for those looking for project management jobs.

ProjectMind's Quick Guide to Project Management is a free ebook that you can download. With an emphasis on simplicity, the book provides clear, step-by-step instructions to project management.

Managing scope creep in project management is a challenging job that needs clearly defined, documented and controlled specifications. Scope creep can sneak up, morph and destroy a project.

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

AWESOME CHART!!!! I really liked how they grouped them together and tried to list the features that were fairly global and unique to each software product.

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."

In my search for different PM softwares I came across the following. They do a 30-day trial on all their pricing structures and the website is rather informative.

Trusted by millions, Basecamp is the leading web-based project management and collaboration tool. To-dos, files, messages, schedules, and milestones.

I had looked at this too. It seems that most PM software ends up having to be paid for. I guess making it free ties to the idea if taking money off the table and using a collaborative organizational model :)

Being a project manager can be a stressful job. You are responsible for a project that business people in your organization care a lot about. Someone may have over-committed you, and is now asking you why you aren't on time, within scope or under budget. You and your staff are working together to find solutions as best you can--but within your organization there is no one you can lean on for answers. This is why we built ProjectManagement.com. Our mission is simple: To make project managers more successful. ProjectManagement.com is the experience bridge that fills in the gaps--providing help to project managers in a number of ways. It is a community, your community, for project managers in Information Technology and other industries.

This is a listing of articles on Project Management.

Great information for use in project management