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Taryn Mancine Project Manager| Cook MyoSite, Inc Pittsburgh, Pa, United States
I am finding that for projects file folder organization can play a large factor. I am wondering if people have tips or tricks for file folder organization. Currently, I utilize the process groups to separate my files, but when the team needs a place they place items anywhere and it gets very disorganized. Hoping to get some tips and tricks on best way for project files/folders organization within a project to cause ease on the project team and PM.
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Ken Bradshaw Project Manager| CRA Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
I start with two main folders, on for Planning and another for Execution. Under Planning, I have sub-folders for the PM processes, where I keep the various project documentation. Under Execution, I have Analysis, Design, Build, Test, Implement and Close.
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CHANDRU AMIRTHALINGAM Application Manager| Mitsubishi Electric Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore Singapore, Singapore
Jul 06, 2018 9:40 AM
Replying to Thomas Walenta
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Yes, keep it simple, nobody wants to search for documents in a complicated multilevel file structure. Use a tool - if you can - with overall search capability. If your team members work on different projects, a common standard is helpful. Create document name standards.

Here is an example I used:
01 Meetings SteerCo, Internal Meetings, Agendas, Meeting Minutes, Contact List, Orgchart, Communication Plan
02 Schedule & Effort Baselines schedule, budget(efforts), PMP (processes), milestones, external dependencies
03 Actions / Decisions Action Tracker, Open Point List, escalation management
04 External Support SOW, RfP, decision criteria/matrix, Proposals, Contracts, Assignments(Orders), deliveries, quality checks,
05 Actuals, Monitoring & Reporting Status reports, effort tracking (internal/external)
06 Change Management Project CRs, Project Change Log, Change Control Board Meetings/Decisions
07 Project Scope scope (deliverables list, WBS, scope statement), Requirements register/backlog, pre-project results (business case, SOW), Project Mgmt Plan (Processes), acceptance criteria,/DoD, acceptance letters
08 Project Risks Risk Register, Contingency Plans
09 Financials (restricted) Budgets/rates in €, invoices, plan/actuals in Euro, ProQuest CRs
10 Stakeholders (restricted) Stakeholder Analysis Engagement Plan
Very useful suggestion and It may help to assign folder name by its function.
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Anton Oosthuizen Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager| Self Employed Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
I'm with Elizabeth on this. I've never used process groups but would use either work packages and/or activities groups.
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