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Project Management
project
management at
SmithMartin Partnership LLP
Some cost
free solutions to project management...
Zoho
 A complete suite of
solutions to participation and collaboration for projects and
their partners/participants. We us our ZOHO account to
generate project workspaces. We can upload documents, photos and plans
and leave comments on our team contributions.
Zoho
offers a broad range of shared spolutions from word processing
to CRM modules. (Managing customer relations through contact
tracking and knowledge retention - keep their details all in one place
- including tracking and managing your physical inventory, if you have
one).
We love ZOHO...check
out the start page.
Google
Docs
Always at the forefront of development and change. The 'do no evil'
team offer a classic document and spreadsheet creation and sharing
facility on-line. Better integration with other Google
apps in the family is being created all the time.
Gliffy
Need to create a flowchart that's clear and neat? Need to connect a
series of ideas boxes, then print the completed diagram. Gliffy is the
on-line solution for creating and sharing flowcharts and diagrams.
Project
in a Box
The Community
Edition offers the best starting point for community groups
or small projects that want to master the control that Prince 2
techniques can offer. Templates and instructions to get you started in
formal project management skills.
Open Workbench
The open source alternative to Microsoft Project. Free to download,
it offers the sophisticated user a cost free solution to complex,
multi-themed project management.
SmithMartin
use Prince2 similar techniques.
We are
flexible, believing simple and elegant is best for
clients and service users.
We can, if
required, develop full programme planning and
management, with a complex portfolio of the well recognised
templates, ownership groups and sectional work plans with timed
reviews.
You can
find the basis of our skill set on the web page of the
Office
of Government
Commerce.
We
strive
to make simpler, yet still effective, project
management delivery on your behalf.
We
recognise the complexity and intellectual rigour needed to
manage high value, politically entwined capital and revenue
work programmes.
However it
is possible, for community based, social
enterprise related projects to condense this fog of
technicality into a simple five step plan.
SmithMartin
deliver projects around these simple core
structures.
- Definition
and describing - what is it
you wish to do or to deliver?
Being
clear about aims and objectives. Being clear about
outputs and outcomes. Thinking about measurement, monitoring
and evaluation.
What will be your key milestones. Who will be the 'owners' of
the various elements - briefing the key players.
- Thinking
about and planning the project
- systematically and effectively writing up your action
plan.
The
timing, the decision processes and managing change along
the way. Aligning budgets with action, developing and
implementing reporting systems, keyed to the needs of the
project, the organisation and the key players.
What will people want to see, how will they expect to see it?
- Taking
action and starting the work
-
who is doing what and when, monitoring progress and
results.
Supporting
the project team into delivery. Check and support
of service delivery. Supplier and contractor
relationships and performance. Solving the problems,
supporting the people.
- Managing
and consulting through the delivery of
the work - keeping the plan
on course, helping with
remedial activity.
Monitoring
and assessment, reporting back to you on
performance. Defining and managing changes in the process.
- Bringing
activity to an end -
programme
closure reports and feedback, evaluation of the
activity.
Project
closure reports and exit strategy effectiveness.
Evaluation and sharing the results. Celebrating the
successes.
Buy
this book, or others like it, from Amazon here.
Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge
A: PMBOK Guide (PMBOK Guides) (Paperback)
£25.30 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver
Delivery.
For those new to this
book it is pretty much the project manager's bible in the same sense
that "The C Programming Language" by Brian W Kernighan, Dennis M.
Ritchie is to programming. That is to say this is the one to get off
the ground with. It is also the basis of the PMP (Project Management
Professional) test given by the PMI® (Project Management Institute.)
Amazon reader review.
Paperback: 380 pages
Publisher: Project Management Institute; 3Rev e. edition (Oct 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 193069945X
ISBN-13: 978-1930699458
Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.2 x 2.4 cm
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