Links to information on Project Planning & Management
Project Planning & Management
Tools
Career progression brings with it complex and difficult challenges, some of which, due to their large scope, may require the involvement and coordination of many people of diverse professions, or the completion of many tasks in a precise sequence, and huge expenditures in terms of time and money. The successful implementation of projects with such challenges with minimum wastage of resource requires specific project planning and management skills. Some of these skills include how to estimate time accurately, project scheduling with dependent stages (Gantt chart development), Critical Path Analysis & PERT - (scheduling Complex Projects), the Planning Cycle (a planning process meant for middle-sized projects), planning large projects & programs, stakeholder analysis (finding out whose support one must count on), and stakeholder management (how to communicate your ideas to the stakeholder so as to win their support).
The ingredients making up the Time Management Skills are: time costing (finding out how much your time costs), work priorities (doing tasks which add the greatest value), activity logging (understanding where you lose time), small-scale planning (formulating action plans), creating prioritized To Do lists to help you in doing the most important things first, setting personal goals, and scheduling your skills so that in your plan, you make the most of your time. The links below provide a wealth of information on this subject.
The link provides information on certain skills that are required when conducting project management, with reference to teamwork in project planning: www.mapnp.org/library/plan_dec/project/project.htm
Highlights tools
that allow sharing and management of information
associated with projects and their related tasks.
www.startwright.com/project1.htm
Land Management Information Center Home Page
This site acts as an information center, providing content relating to Land Management including geographic information using map series: www.lmic.state.mn.us
IT Project Management Tools Templates Workbooks Guides - gives methodologies that offer "how-to" solutions in the form of workbooks, information technology project management templates and IT planning guides, tools, and checklists: www.ittoolkit.com/index.shtml
Open Directory - Business: Management: Management Science - site covers enterprise projects, and also offers guidelines in management through how-to workbooks, project plans and planning guides, tools including submissive and compliance profiling tool for personnel management: http://dmoz.org/Business/Management/Management_Science/ Management_Information_Systems/
Project Planning - this link provides the user with lessons and information on both the work itself and the management of that work. www.ee.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Management/art8.html