Happy August & thank you for being Members of the ProjectManagement.com community!

This month, we are including 2 NEW TEMPLATES and six from our vast collection!

Don't forget you also have access to everything in the entire PREMIUM TEMPLATE library! We hope these make your life a bit easier – helping us fulfill our mission of making YOU more successful.

The following premium templates, two newly available as of this month, are available to all premium members and to ALL members through Wednesday, August 27th. 

Contingency Plan Template (NEW THIS MONTH!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
This document summarizes the contingency plan for a risk. This level of formality will not be appropriate for all risks on all projects, but is a useful tool for potentially big impact risks. Every actively managed risk requires a contingency plan even if it is not this formal. When and if the risk triggers, there will be a need for decisive action. This document needs to be clear and complete enough to allow for those steps to be taken without a requirement for further analysis. 

Project Management Evaluation Review Report and Worksheet Templates (NEW THIS MONTH!)
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Project Management Evaluation Reviews are formal reviews intended to uncover issues, concerns or challenges that may impact the quality or value results if changes are not made and facilitates resolution for what needs to be improved for successful completion. 

Failure Analysis: What Went Wrong, and Why? 
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
Sometimes things go horribly wrong once. Other times, they go horribly wrong on a routine basis. Ever wonder why that is? If failure is a recurring theme in your projects, you'd be wise to download this deliverable. 

Enterprise-wide Analysis 
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
This document outlines the Enterprise-wide Analysis, which describes the enterprise application package’s features and functions, analyses on its cost-benefit and risks, and the technical requirements to be supported. 

Risk Review Process and Checklist 
PREMIUM CHECKLIST
Need to perform a risk audit on a project? This Risk Review Process and Checklist guides you through an exhaustive review of the effort, including documentation, resourcing, delivery performance to date, financial performance to date, and much more. It's not just a checklist of simple measures, but asks a number of questions that truly speak to the potential for the project to achieve the results that were intended. 

Requirements Completeness Evaluation Checklist 
PREMIUM CHECKLIST
This checklist will assist you in minimizing scope creep, schedule extensions and project failure by evaluating whether the initial requirements are complete. This series of requirements attributes, quality checks, and examples provide a thorough review of what you plan to do. 

Presenting Your Business Case to Management 
PREMIUM PRESENTATION
Presenting a winning business case with the right amount of the right information for the right audience is the key to getting approval and funding for your project! Here is a presentation that will give you the fine points on how to do just that. 

Common Component Change Request 
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
Use this Common Component Change Request Form to track all component change requests. 

Just get out of a tough meeting? Share the pain with those who were in the meeting with you - http://www.projectmanagement.com/bettermeetings/ 

We hope you are having an amazing year so far and thank you again for being a ProjectManagement.com member! We sincerely appreciate your support and are completely committed to your success. If we can help with anything project related, please let us know atcontactus@projectmanagement.com.

Best,
Dave
Dave Garrett
President & CEO, ProjectManagement.com

Happy June & thank you again for being Premium Members of the ProjectManagement.com community!

This month we bring you 2 NEW templates as well as 7 of our existing classic templates!

Don't forget you also have access to everything in the entire PREMIUM TEMPLATE library! We hope these make your life a bit easier – helping us fulfill our mission of making YOU more successful.

The following premium templates, newly available as of today, are available to all premium members. 

Project Constraints Hierarchy Template (NEW THIS MONTH!)
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The project constraints hierarchy is intended to identify the order in which constraints will be compromised in order to protect/preserve more important constraints. The constraints hierarchy should be determined in conjunction with the major stakeholders who also need to understand the implications of their decisions. 

Earned Value Management (EVM) Calculator (NEW THIS MONTH!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
The basic premise of EVM is that we can assign a value to each task. We can then determine the progress that we have made on our project relative to schedule by comparing the amount of work completed with the amount of work planned to have been completed at the reporting date, and the progress relative to budget by comparing the amount of money that we have actually spent with the amount of money that we planned to spend. 

Project Team Retrospective Survey 
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
The project is over. How did it go from the perspective of those who really did the work, i.e., those on the project team? Though you could use this survey for an active project, it's really applicable to a project that has just finished. Use it as part of the project post-mortem. 

System Requirements Specification
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
The System Requirements Specification (SRS) document describes all data, functional and behavioral requirements of the software under production or development. 

Risk Management Grid
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
The Risk Management Grid is a technique to identify potential risk events that could impact one of more of the project’s Seven Win Conditions. Importantly, it also serves to decide how those events will be prevented or mitigated. 

Project HEADWAY Communications Plan
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
This template allows the project manager to fully understand the communication needs of stakeholders on the project. Stakeholders expectations and requirements can be documented ensuring there is a clear understanding of the why, when, how and what of the project’s communications. 

Change Management Policy and Process
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The Change Management process is fundamental to the successful delivery of the project. The Change Management process ensures that each change introduced to the project environment is appropriately defined, evaluated and approved prior to implementation. 

Risk Identification and Assessment Form
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
Use the risk identification and assessment form to assess risks to (and their impact on) a project. Types of risks to be identified using this form include scope, timescales, deliverables, resources, milestones and expenditures. 

Portfolio HEADWAY Project Plan
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
Organizations often undertake the wrong projects and fail to understand if the projects they choose actually provide the expected outcomes. The Portfolio HEADWAY process is a project-focused, step-by-step process that will help your organization to select the right projects, manage those projects well and, realize the expected benefits. Put Portfolio HEADWAY to work for your organization. 

Just get out of a tough meeting? Share the pain with those who were in the meeting with you - http://www.projectmanagement.com/bettermeetings/ 

We hope you are having an amazing year so far and thank you again for being a ProjectManagement.com member! We sincerely appreciate your support and are completely committed to your success. If we can help with anything project related, please let us know atcontactus@projectmanagement.com.

Best,
Dave
Dave Garrett
President & CEO, ProjectManagement.com

Happy May & thank you again for being Members of the ProjectManagement.com community!

This month we bring you something special - 9 NEW templates from our friends at PMI as well as 2 of our own new templates!

Download these quick before they're back in the PREMIUM library! These are all examples of premium content available 24/7 to our Premium Members. However, they are free to every registered member through Friday, May 23rd. We hope these make your life a bit easier – helping us fulfill our mission of making YOU more successful. If you are not already a Premium Plus member but would like to be, Premium Plus membership is available at a $50 discount using the code "KEEP50".

The following premium templates are available to all ProjectManagement.com members until 5/23. We hope you find them useful.

Current State Organizational Assessment (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)
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How is your organization currently positioned for Organizational Project Management? This template--used in conjunction with Implementing Organizational Change Management, A Practice Guide--will help you perform a quick assessment of OPM attributes. 

Critical Success Factors Commitment Assessment (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
How committed is your organization to making Organizational Project Management a success? Will you have the sustained leadership, organizational change management, and commitment to continuous improvement necessary to succeed? Use this questionnaire in conjunction with Implementing Organizational Change Management, A Practice Guide to help find the answers. 

Organizational Project Management Feasibility Assessment (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
How feasible is Organizational Project Management at your organization? What does success mean? What are the impacts? Use this nine-question assessment in conjunction with Implementing Organizational Change Management, A Practice Guide to help find the answers. 

Implementation of Core Enabling Processes Assessment (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
Which processes do you need to have in place to ensure Organizational Project Management success? This template looks at competency management, governance, organizational project management methodology and strategic alignment. Use this questionnaire in conjunction with Implementing Organizational Change Management, A Practice Guide. 

Process Improvement Plan (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)
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The Process Improvement Plan is a component of the project management plan. It details the steps for analyzing project management, product development or organizational processes to identify activities that enhance their value. 

Procurement Management Plan (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)
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The Procurement Management Plan is a component of the project management plan that describes how a project team will acquire goods and services from outside the performing organization. Keep track of all the essential information using this form. 

Project Management Plan (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)
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The Project Management Plan is the defining document for how the project will be managed. It's the documentation of your project management methodology. You can hand it to a stakeholder or customer, and they will be able to understand how the project is run. When processes need to change, they should be updated in the plan. Use this form to get started. 

Quality Management Plan (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
The Quality Management Plan is a component of the project management plan. It describes how quality requirements for the project will be met. 

Quality Metrics (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
This Quality Metrics log should be used with the Quality Management Plan, a component of the project management plan that describes how quality requirements for the project will be met. 

Project Team Commitment Declaration (NEW THIS MONTH!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
By having everyone commit to a common set of values, a strong foundation is created that can help to bind the team together and allows team members to call out their colleagues for any misstep without any perceived personal slight. Use this declaration to get everyone on the same page. 

PERT Analysis Worksheet (NEW THIS MONTH!)
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PERT analysis requires the identification of three types of estimates, usually generated in conjunction with experts. Those are: best case (the least amount of time that a task might take), worst case (the most time that a task might take) and most likely (the exepcted time). This can be used to calculate effort or duration. 

Have you seen our new Requirements Management Practice Area? It's full of tips and templates to help you define the work that you are engaged in now. Take a look around and let us know what you think. 

We hope you are having an amazing year so far and thank you again for being a ProjectManagement.com member! We sincerely appreciate your support and are completely committed to your success. If we can help with anything project related, please let us know at contactus@projectmanagement.com.

Best,
Dave
Dave Garrett
President & CEO, ProjectManagement.com 
 

Happy April and thank you again for being Members of the ProjectManagement.com community!

This month, in addition to our usual template release, we are including 4 NEW templates from our friends at PMI as well as 2 of our own new templates!

Download these quick before they're back in the PREMIUM library! These are all examples of premium content available 24/7 to our Premium Members. However,they are free to every registered member through Thursday, April 17th. We hope these make your life a bit easier – helping us fulfill our mission of making YOU more successful. If you are not already a Premium Plus member but would like to be, Premium Plus membership is available at a $50 discount using the code "KEEP50".

The following premium templates are available to all ProjectManagement.com members until 4/17. We hope you find them useful. 

Human Resource Management Plan (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
Have you assigned all of the roles and responsibilities for your team? Decided authority levels for various managers? Detailed the organizational structure? Those are just a few of the vital tasks that this plan will help you record. 

Milestone List (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
The Milestone List defines all the project milestones and describes the nature of each one. It may categorize the milestone as optional or mandatory, internal or external, interim or final, or in any other way that supports the needs of the project. 

Probability and Impact Assessment (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
The Probability and Impact Assessment form contains narrative descriptions of the likelihood of events occurring and the impact on the various project objectives if they do occur. It also has a key to assign an overall risk rating based on the probability and impact scores. If a Risk Management Plan is used, this information will become part of that plan. 

Duration Estimating Worksheet (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
A duration estimating worksheet can help to develop duration estimates when quantitative methods are used. This PREMIUM DELIVERABLE template will help you keep track of parametric estimates, analogous estimates and three-point estimates. 

Communications Plan Log (NEW THIS MONTH!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
Communication is one of the most critical success factors on a project and a strong communication plan will go a long way towards creating a structure of effective communication with all stakeholders. This template provides some basic fields common to all plans but also helps identify each stakeholder’s specific needs. 

Assumptions Log (NEW THIS MONTH!)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
For a project to proceed, it is inevitable that assumptions are made. Without them, the project would grind to a halt until all uncertainty was removed. However, in many cases assumptions are made without any further attempt to confirm or correct those assumptions; this can lead to significant downstream project execution difficulties. This template is intended to help capture and track assumptions and the work being done to validate them. 

Design Milestones Review Checklists
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
This Design Milestones Review Checklist contains four worksheets: Design Milestones, High-Level Pre-Design, Technical Requirements, and Documentation and User Interface. 

Pre-Development Requirements Checklist
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
This checklist will help you assess your user and technical requirements for accuracy, completeness and quality. 

Are You an Effective Project Manager? (a quick self assessment)
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
How effectively do you manage your projects? Regardless of your score, this 50 point self assessment will help you identify very practical areas to focus on and improve the skills you have. 

Methodology Implementation Plan
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
This document outlines the strategy for deploying a standard systems development methodology and its supporting tools to IT project teams. It is a framework for ensuring that the project team understands, applies and measures the effectiveness of the methodology. 

Project Portfolio Worksheet
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
The Project Portfolio Management Starter Kit consists of a PowerPoint briefing explaining the initial steps and this Excel worksheet to perform your analysis. With these two tools, you will have the ability to start your portfolio process. 

Sample Project Manager Job Description Form
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
Just what the heck is a project manager, anyway? Here's a starting point. 

Project HEADWAY Project Status Report
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
The purpose of a status report is to provide the project sponsor, the steering committee and other stakeholders with an understanding of how the project is progressing. The status report template allows the project manger to provide the audience members with a high-level view of the project. The template provides them with enough information in order to for them to understand project progress whilst not so much information as to overwhelm them. 

Project HEADWAY Project Team Status Report
PREMIUM DELIVERABLE
On many projects, each team is required to submit a status report indicating their progress on their portion of the project. The report ensures the key information required by the project manager is captured from each team in a consistent and complete fashion. 

Have you seen our new Requirements Management Practice Area? It's full of tips and templates to help you define the work that you are engaged in now. Take a look around and let us know what you think. 

We hope you are having an amazing year so far and thank you again for being a ProjectManagement.com member! We sincerely appreciate your support and are completely committed to your success. If we can help with anything project related, please let us know at contactus@projectmanagement.com.

Best,
Dave
Dave Garrett
President & CEO, ProjectManagement.com

Merry March & thank you again for being Members of the ProjectManagement.com community!

This month, in addition to our usual "template release", we are including 5 NEW templates from our friends at PMI as well as 2 of our own new templates!

Download these quick before they're back in the PREMIUM library! These are all examples of premium content available 24/7 to our Premium Members. However, they are free to every registered member through Thursday, March 21st. We hope these make your life a bit easier – helping us fulfill our mission of making YOU more successful. If you are not already a Premium Plus member but would like to be, Premium Plus membership is available at a $50 discount using the code "KEEP50".

The following premium templates are available to all ProjectManagement.com members until 3/21. We hope you find them useful.

Bottom-Up Cost Estimating Worksheet (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)

Bottom-up estimates are detailed estimates done at the work package level. Detailed information on the work package and other direct/indirect costs are used to determine the most accurate estimate possible. Use this worksheet to help you keep track.

Cost Estimating Worksheet (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)

A cost-estimating worksheet can help you develop cost estimates when quantitative methods or bottom-up estimates are developed. Quantitative methods include parametric estimates, analogous estimates and three-point estimates.

Cost Management Plan (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)

The cost management plan is a component of the project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned, structured and controlled. It includes a description of how costs will be estimated and budgeted, and helps define the methods used.

Change Management Plan (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)

The change management plan is a component of the project management plan. It describes how change will be managed on the project. Use this template to help guide the process.

Communications Management Plan (NEW THIS MONTH FROM PMI!)

The communications management plan is a component of the project management plan. It describes the communication needs of the project including audiences, messages and methods and is a vital component of stakeholder management.

Sample Weekly Status Report (NEW THIS MONTH!)

Stay on top of your project with this weekly status report template, which helps you track issues, delays, key accomplishments, planned activities and risks.

Sample Program-Level Status Report (NEW THIS MONTH!)

Keep track of major departmental projects using this sample status report, which helps you keep track of progress and risks.

Project Management Roles and Responsibilities

A PMO, Project Managers and Mentors must all act in concert to ensure that projects are executed efficiently and effectively. These role descriptions and matrices help clarify who does what.

Post-Mortem Documentation

Make sure no post-mortem details escape you by using this analysis form, designed to help you avoid potential problems with future projects.

Problem Escalation Matrix

There are always issues with projects and things are much easier if you know what your next option is for moving things along. This matrix offers a process for resolving various types of project problems and delays.

Prioritization Criteria Template

In order to resolve the defects inherent in most initiative prioritization efforts, there needs to be a pragmatic set of criteria against which each initiative can be ranked. This template can be used to help accomplish this objective.

Risk Evaluation Matrix

Once you know which factors are considered risks to yor project, arrange these factors into a risk evaluation matrix. Don't worry. We'll walk you through it.

Have you seen our new Requirements Management Practice Area? It's full of tips and templates to help you define the work that you are engaged in now. Take a look around and let us know what you think. 

We hope you are having an amazing year so far and thank you again for being a ProjectManagement.com member! We sincerely appreciate your support and are completely committed to your success. If we can help with anything project related, please let us know atcontactus@projectmanagement.com.