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Project Management PrinciplesProject Management

ResourcesOn the Internet

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Index Introduction Benefits Enhanced

Communications PM Organisations Virtual Team Support PM Software Vendors PM Software Newsgroups Other PM Sites PM Sites with an IT

flavour

Other Technical Content Sites

PM Links Sites Project Management

People Risk Analysis/Range

Estimating

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Introduction

The objective of this session is to provide an insight into the variety and depth of resources available to project management practitioners on the Internet.

This presentation has been hyperlinked so that users can navigate easily through the subject matter and access the indicated websites as long as they have access to the Internet.

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Benefits of using the Internet Simplify Research

Product & Services Literature Best practices/white papers Post questions to newsgroups

Accelerate Problem Resolution Technical support Download software patches

Enhance Communication Reduce telephone tag Collaborate to solve problems Bring partners closer Easily distribute a single revisable message to many.

From presentation byYogi Schultz - Corvelle

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Enhanced Communications

Email Timely and auditable communication Report distribution

Word Documents, Spreadsheets PDF files (cannot be changed)

Viewing project information on the web.

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Project Management Organisations Project Management Institute Association for Advancement of Cost Engineering (Main Site)

AACE has excellent downloads if you are a member. (Worth it just for that!)

Association of Project Managers (UK) PM Boulevard (free PMP Preparation Quiz once registered on

site) CIRIA - CIRIA is a UK-based research association concerned

with improving the performance of all involved in construction and the environment

International Project Management Association automatic membership if you join APM good journal

Organisation of Project Advancement & Leadership Calgary sponsored

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Virtual Team Support Virtual Teams.com Great book on how to get virtual teams to

work well (A virtual team is one where the members are not working in same place/organisation but still have to excel as a project team.)

Citadon (used to be Cephren) CyberDOCS from Hummingbird (PC DOCS) Many Internet Oriented Electronic whiteboards are available.

Dont forget..you generally get what you pay for!

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PM Software Vendors MS Project 2000 MS Project free macros (convert Gantt to HTML etc.) Primavera Hornet UK originated PM software popular with Imperial

Oil/Esso some years ago. Has Time/Chainage diagram capability.

SuperProject FastTrack Schedule

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Project Management Software Newsgroups

Example MS Project (microsoft.public.project)

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To set up for newsgroups, click on Help in Microsoft Outlookor your favourite email program and follow instructions fornewsgroups or news readers.

Newsgroups allow you to seek and share advice with otherusers.

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Other PM Sites PM Forum Comprehensive worldwide PM resource. PM Forum Directory of Generally Accepted Practices Great

resource! Max Wideman Comparative PM Terms Glossary 4pm.com Commercial training site, but has good free PM

advice at bottom of home page Revay & Associates Ltd. Great newsletter archive specialising

in dispute resolution and construction claims. Definitely worthbrowsing the Revay Report especially January 2000 edition Lessons Learnt from 30 years of handling construction disputes

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PM Sites with an IT Flavour Some good stuff even if you are not in the IT

project management business! Software Engineering Institute Great site with

lots of information. Good work done on Project Management Maturity Models

TechRepublic Great site run by Gartner Group with lots of downloads

AMS Good hints and project profiles Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Project

management methodology site. Software Program Managers Network - Sponsored

by the US Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology, Software Intensive Systems Directorate

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Other Technical Content Sites Petroleum Industry Training Service Large archive of names

of technical papers for energy industry. Construction Industry Institute If your company subscribes

to this then you have access to good research on construction/contracting

Information & Communications technologies for the construction industry

Sustainable Energy & Economy Network environmental hot spot

Construction Owners Association of Alberta good site with key construction knowledge available. Home of the CRIACA (COST REDUCTION INITIATIVES) COMMITTEE

Information on Edward Tufte books expert on graphically effective communication

Warren Bennis articles on leadership Incoterms 2000 essential info about shipping terms Back to Index

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Project Management Links Sites Planning Planet Links Association of Project Managers Links Broadleaf Capital International good Australian site with risk

management speciality

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Project Management People

Planning Planet Three planning engineers in Hong Kong. Site has growing database of planning info. Project management jobs.

PM Net Participate, or just watch as senior project management professionals interact with each other on a list server. Go to the site and follow the instructions. Recent lively discussions included : Licensing project managers project teamwork benefits of Project Management Offices (PMO)

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Risk Analysis/Range Estimating Crystal Ball (Decisioneering) @Risk (Palisade) Riskease Decision Analysis Society Listing Free Risk Database Repository Treeage Software Inc Data 3.5 (great software for decision tree

and influence diagram development)

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Links 1 Project Management Institute http://www.pmi.org/ Association for Advancement of Cost Engineering (Main Site)

http://www.aacei.org/ Association of Project Managers (UK) http://www.apm.org.uk/ PM Boulevard http://www.pmblvd.com/news/default.asp Free PMP Prep -

http://www.pmboulevard.com/training/PMP/pmp_prep.jsp CIRIA http://www.ciria.org.uk/ International Project Management Association

http://www.ipma.ch/ Organisation of Project Advancement & Leadership

http://www.eng.ucalgary.ca/opal/index.htmlhttp://www.iceincusa.com/download_tools.htm

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Links 2 Virtual Teams.com http://www.virtualteams.com/ Citadon http://www.citadon.com/ CyberDOCS

http://www.hummingbird.com/products/dkm/index.html MS Project 2000 MS Project free macros

http://www.scramsoftware.vallnet.com/downloads.htm Primavera http://www.primavera.com/products/stwin.html Hornet

http://www.claremont-controls.co.uk/noframes/products/prod005.htm

SuperProject http://www.cai.com/products/superproject.htm FastTrack Schedule http://www.aecsoft.com/

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Links 3 PM Forum http://www.pmforum.org/ PM Forum Directory of Generally Accepted Practices

http://www.pmforum.org/prof/gapmp.htm Max Wideman Comparative PM Terms Glossary

http://www.pmforum.org/library/glossary/ 4pm.com http://www.4pm.com/ Revay & Associates Ltd. http://www.revay.com/ Lessons Learnt from 30 years of handling construction disputes

http://www.revay.com/english/19no1en.pdf

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Links 4 Software Engineering Institute

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/sei-home.html TechRepublic http://www.techrepublic.com/index.jhtml; AMS Good hints and project profiles

http://www.amsusa.com/realworldsolutions.html Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat http://www.tbs-

sct.gc.ca/pubpol_e.html Treasury Board of Canada PM documents -

http://www.cio-dpi.gc.ca/emf-cag/emfdocs/keydocs_e.asp Software Program Managers Network

http://www.spmn.com/

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Links 5 Petroleum Industry Training Service http://www.pits.ca/tech.html#330 Construction Industry Institute http://construction-institute.org/ Information & Communications technologies http://construction-

institute.org/structur/cii132.html Sustainable Energy & Economy Network

http://www.seen.org/index.html Construction Owners Association of Alberta good site with key

construction knowledge available. Home of the CRIACA (COST REDUCTION INITIATIVES) COMMITTEE ttp://www.gov.ab.ca/lab/facts/bestinv/const.html#four

Information on Edward Tufte books http://public.logica.com/~stepneys/bib/nf/tufte.htm

Warren Bennis articles on leadershiphttp://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/L2L/spring99/bennis.html

Incoterms 2000 http://www.iccwbo.org/home/menu_incoterms.asp

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Links 6 Planning Planet Links -

http://www.planningplanet.com/links_page.htm Association of Project Managers Links -

http://www.apm.org.uk/links.htm Broadleaf Capital International

http://www.broadleaf.com.au/links/Default.htm Planning Planet http://www.planningplanet.com/index.asp PM Net http://lists.uts.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/pmnet

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Links 7 Crystal Ball (Decisioneering) - http://www.decisioneering.com/ @Risk (Palisade) http://www.palisade.com/ Riskease - http://www.riskease.com/ Decision Analysis Society Listing -

http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/daweb/ Free Risk Database Repository Treeage Software Inc http://www.treeage.com/