professional body of its kind in Europe. Based in the UK, their aim is
to develop and promote project management across all sectors of industry
and beyond.
| Project Management Reference Sites | |
| Project Management Institute | PMI is a US organisation that provides the Project Management Body of Knowledge on its web site. A very useful set of documents in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format that you can download. |
| The Association for Project Managagement | The
Association for Project Management is the largest independent professional body of its kind in Europe. Based in the UK, their aim is to develop and promote project management across all sectors of industry and beyond. |
| Prince 2 Official Home Page is on the UK Government’s CCTA site and there is a Prince 2 User Group | In the UK Prince 2 (Projects In a Controlled Environment - document version 2) is essential for project managers working on UK government related IT projects. Some commercial organisations starting to use it as well. It is methodolgy special created for IT projects. |
| The British Computer Society | BCS has a Project Management Special Interest Group |
| University of Portsmouth (UK) | Portsmouth University’s Management Centre has project management courses for those who are looking for formal training in Project Management with a diploma to show for it. |
| UK Social Housing Link - housingconnections.com | The aim of the Link is to provide a resource on the Internet for all those concerned with UK social housing to discuss ideas and issues, exchange information, and gain access to related sites on the Internet. |
| Department of Information Management at the Stockholm School of Economics | This site provides information about Business Activities, People and Information systems. Of special interest to those managing business improvement IT projects will be the Advancing Your Business research papers in Acrobat (pdf) format. |
| Centre for Project Management University of Limerick | The Centre for Project Management at the University of Limerick undertakes research and works in partnership with industry. Although the papers they have published are listed on this site they are not published as WWW documents. |
| Big Dog's Bowl of Biscuits | This is an excellent 'Leadership' resource site with an amazing amount of high quality reference material and links to even more. Highly recommended. |
| eprojXperts.com | A community network for SAP PS, Baan Projects, Oracle Projects, Peoplesoft Projects and J.D.Edwards Projects. |
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The DTI recognise how important the software industry is to the future of the UK economy. They are particularly concerned that small to medium size UK software companies stay competitive by continuing to provide high quality products and services. DTI have appointed the National Computing Centre to implement an industry-backed initiative designed to help such organisations maintain and improve quality and business procedures - Towards Software Excellence (TSE). |
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The practical guide to project management essentials. Includes free project management templates, news, events, reports, and features. www.projectsmart.co.uk |