Project Guides

Add these convenient references and links to your "bookshelf "and use them regularly to accomplish even smaller projects more effectively. These resources include suggestions for organizing and tracking projects, gathering requirements, assuring usability and managing change smoothly. It also includes many useful forms and planning tools.

Resources

Sample Meeting Kickoff Agenda
Free template for, and sample of, a meeting kickoff agenda which can be used to "kick off" an alignment meeting at the start of a project.

Sample Project Contact List
Free template for a project contact list in Excel.

Sample Action Item Tracking Tool
Free template for, and suggestions for use of an action item tracking tool.

Change Request Log
Free template for tracking change requests.

Project Initiation Checklist
Free template for project initiation.

Links

office.microsoft.com/en-us/project/FX100487771033.aspx
Microsoft Project 2007 home page.

www.leader2leaders.com/free-articles
Provides free articles from industry leaders for personal and team development at no cost.

www.projectsatwork.com
Project manager information resources to help project managers better organize their portfolios.

www.projectperfect.com.au
Project Perfect provides free white papers on project management as well as selling tools for Project Managers to manage risks, issues, scope, QA etc. They also sell tools for Business Analysts to gather requirements.

www.pmforum.org
Provides insight, worldwide commentary, and a products/services forum for project management.

www.web-based-software.com
Directory of software for project management, human resource management, customer service, call center, time management, calendar software, event planning, and bug tracking.

www.pmi.org
PMI is a US organization that provides the Project Management Body of Knowledge on its web site. A very useful set of documents in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format that you can download.

www.hr.com
Membership-only access to useful articles related to HR and human performance.

www.brint.com/km/
Articles, research, and practices related to knowledge management.

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