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Project Management Organizations, Associations and Institutes
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International Project Management Association (IPMA)
www.ipma.ch
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"IPMA is a world leading non-profit making project management organisation. IPMA represents 45 national project management associations on the international level. IPMA actively promotes project management to businesses and organisations around the world. In order to increase the recognition of the profession we certify project managers, award successful project teams and individuals, and provide a number of project management publications. IPMA has spread from Europe to North and South America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and the number of nationalities is steadily growing. Through IPMA project managers from all cultures and all parts of the world can network, share ideas and bring project management forward together.” |
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Association for Project Management (APM)
www.apm.org.uk
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"APM is the largest independent professional body of its kind in Europe. We have over 16,500 individual and 500 corporate members throughout the UK and abroad. Our aim is to develop and promote project management across all sectors of industry and beyond. At the heart of APM is the APM Body of Knowledge; fifty-two knowledge areas required to manage any successful project. We promote the use of the APM Body of Knowledge through qualifications, accredited training, research, publications and events. APM Members are skilled and experienced professionals recognized in the UK and throughout the world via International Project Management Association (IPMA); APM is the UK member of the IPMA." |
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American Society for the Advancement of Project Management (asapm)www.asapm.org
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"asapm is a US-based not-for-profit professional society dedicated to advancing the project management discipline. Working with members, asapm provides the leadership for professional growth of both members and the profession. Enhancement of the profession benefits project practitioners, their respective organizations, and the project management community. asapm is working at the forefront of the project management discipline to push practices, procedures, and techniques to their best use" |
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Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM)
www.aipm.com.au
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“The Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) is the peak body for project management in Australia. Formed in 1976 as the Project Managers' Forum, AIPM has been instrumental in progressing the profession of project management in Australia over the past 30 years. AIPM’s role is to improve the knowledge, skills and competence of project team members, project managers and project directors, all of whom play a key role in the achievement of business objectives, not just project objectives. AIPM also aims to ensure that those involved at other levels in an organisation and the community understand the key role of project management in today's society.” |
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Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS)
www.globalpmstandards.org
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"The Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS), formerly known as the Global Performance Standards for Project Management Personnel Initiative, is a volunteer organisation that provides a forum for stakeholders from differing systems, backgrounds, and operating contexts to work together to create performance based frameworks and standards that address the needs of the global project management community." |
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Global Project Management (GPM)www.globalprojectmanagement.org
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"The GlobalProjectManagement.org is a not-for-profit association that investigates and promotes good practices for global project management, through academic studies and professional workshops. Its Global Project Management framework was the basis for the book "Global Project Management: Communication, Collaboration and Management across Borders". The book received the PMI David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award, which recognizes the best project management literature published in 2007." |
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The Scrum Alliance www.scrumalliance.org
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"The Scrum Alliance is a nonprofit organization committed to delivering articles, resources, courses, and events that will help Scrum users be successful. The Scrum Alliance's mission is to promote increased awareness and understanding of Scrum, provide resources to individuals and organizations using Scrum, and support the iterative improvement of the software development profession." |
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The Agile Alliance www.agilealliance.org
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"With thousands of members located around the globe, the Agile Alliance is driven by the values and principles of the "Manifesto for Agile Software Development" and the agile approaches to software development in order to deliver value to organizations and end users" |
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Project Management Institute (PMI)
www.pmi.org
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“For nearly 40 years, PMI advocated on behalf of project professionals around the world. Project Management allows an individual to speak with one common language, no matter their industry, geography, or whether they manage projects, programs or portfolios. This common language steers organizations toward achieving repeatable, predictable results. With more than one million members, credential holders, volunteers and trained project professionals worldwide, PMI advocates project, program and portfolio management can enhance and accelerate organizational change - driving innovation, improving bottom line performance, and strengthening competitive advantage.” |
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Freebies
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| CPMM (Cornell Project Management Methodology) |
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Free Project Management Methodology and Templates from Cornell University. |
| DoIT |
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Free Project Management Advisor and Templates from the University of Wisconsin. |
| DIT - Project Management Methodology (PMM) |
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Free Project Management Methodology and Templates from the Department of Information of Technology - Michigan.gov. |
| A Project Management Primer |
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A free Project Management guide "to making projects work" (PDF format), by Nick Jenkins. |
| Project Management for Construction |
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Fundamental Concepts for Owners, Engineers, Architects and Builders, by Chris Hendrickson from the Carnegie Mellon University. |
| Learner Paced Project Management Course |
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Free on line project management training course for business and IT people who are involved in IT projects - by Mike Harding Roberts. |
| The e-PM Book |
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A free e-book about eProject Management as well as conventional Program and Project Management, by Simon Wallace. |
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General Public License / Open Source / Free Project Management Software
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| dotProject |
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"dotProject is a volunteer supported Project Management application. There is no "company" behind this project, it is managed, maintained, developed and supported by a volunteer group and by the users themselves." |
| ConsultComm |
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"ConsultComm is a small, lightweight, platform-independent program written in Java that allows anyone managing multiple projects, clients or tasks to effectively keep track of exactly how long they've worked on each project. " |
| GanttProject |
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"GanttProject is a cross-platform desktop tool for project scheduling and management. It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOSX, it is free and its code is opensource." |
| TeamSCOPE |
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"TeamSCOPE is Team Software for Collaborative Project Environments, a web-based collaboration tool. The TeamSCOPE research effort was part of the INTEnD project.". |
| PHProjekt |
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"PHProjekt is a modular application for the coordination of group activities and to share informations and document via the web." |
| TaskJuggler |
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"TaskJuggler is a modern and powerful, Open Source project management tool. Its new approach to project planing and tracking is more flexible and superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools." |
| phpCollab |
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"phpCollab is an open source internet-enabled system for use in projects that require collaboration over the internet." |
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Hotlinks (reciprocal links)
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| Michael Greer's Project Management Resources |
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A convenient way to get free handouts and connect to some of Michael's favorite project management resources. |
| Dave W Farthing's Software Project Management |
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Contains advice and links to all kinds of information about managing software development projects. |
| Project Agency |
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Helping organisations deliver projects on time and to budget. |
