Resources

Follow the links for a selection of resources to help you manage your projects

Recommended reading

Check out these titles. We only recommend what we have used and found useful

 

Project Material

Help yourself to templates for:

Project Management Plan
Risk Register
Stakeholder Map

Articles

Some food for thought. Let us know if you have anything of interest

Software

Useful software links for project managers

 

Links

Useful links for PM resources

 

 
 


Recommended reading


These are books we found useful. They are titles that we refer to, and have no hesitation in recommending them to you

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All change - the project leader's secret handbook

Eddie Obeng

a comprehensive manual full of new world tools

New rules for the new world

Eddie Obeng

more new world tools for project managers

The heart of success

Rob Parsons

work a 60 hour week and never see the family ? - spend an hour with this book and get your life back

The seven habits of highly effective people

Stephen Covey

  10 million bestseller - helps you plan a personal pathway for achieving goals that match your values in life

The project workout

Robert Buttrick

the best "project management in one book" volume we have found. Practical, nicely laid-out and fun. Useful for reference

The goal

Eli Goldratt

Goldratt's 10 million bestseller describing the theory of constraints. Like all Goldratt books, it's written as a novel so is very readable. The most profound business book you may ever read

Critical chain

Eli Goldratt

Another business novel from Goldratt, defining his approach to project scheduling, All businesses will work this way within 10 years or die !

It's not luck

Eli Goldratt

Theory of constraints applied to thinking skills

Earned Value Management

Fleming & Koppleman

Describes EVM in its most basic form, intended for application to all projects, of any size, and from any industry. It describes a scalable approach for EVM covering the smallest to large complex mega-projects.

We haven't read this, but it comes highly recommended by Pete Mill, BAE SYSTEMS EVM guru

 


Links

Some useful sites. Let us know if you have any recommended PM sites, serious or not !

APM - Association for project management the UK's largest professional body for project managers
PMI - Project Management Institute the world's largest professional body for project managers