Project Management Sample
If you have to plan and manage a project, you can do it from scratch. That's a lot of work: compiling checklists of things to do, creating forms and reports, figuring out step by step what resources you need to get the job done and how to get them -- or you can follow a project management sample.
Project management samples can take many forms. Some are collections of information tools (lists, forms, etc.) that other project managers have used to manage their projects. Others are step-by-step recipes for managing specific types of projects.
Still others are case studies of successful projects describing how they were managed, what went wrong, and how the projects were brought to successful conclusions. Case studies of failed projects can also be instructive, and it costs less to learn from other people's mistakes. But where do you get project management samples?
The Project Management Example Project, managed by the Project Management Center, is one source of case studies and project management examples. This online library contains hundreds of project management samples drawn from many industries and covering many types of projects. All you have to do is specify the industry and/or project type to pull up a list of related project management examples.
Professional magazines are another great source of project management examples. Baseline Magazine is devoted to IT projects; each month, it goes into great depth in a software development or other IT management project. Forbes magazine also provides many case studies of IT projects. There are similar trade magazines for healthcare, litigation cases, construction, engineering of various kinds, and just about any project management topic you can imagine.
PMFORUM is an online publication and community maintained by the Project Management World Today professional journal. It contains many case studies and connects you to colleagues in project management who can share their experiences and answer specific questions.
A Google search for project management samples, project management examples, project management sample templates, and similar terms will turn up a host of Web pages from which you can print or download such things. If you add specific keywords relating to your project in question, you can narrow the results and even get a project management sample that is exactly what your need.