USEFUL URLS
IT Project management qualifications and syllabuses
- BCS Professional certification: Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management http://certifications.bcs.org/content/ConTab/2
- BCS Professional certification: Foundation Certificate: Programme and Project Support Office Essentials http://certifications.bcs.org/content/ConTab/3
- BCS Higher Education Qualifications: Diploma in IT Project management. An ‘academic’ examination at university 2nd Year level popular with overseas candidates. www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/dippmsyll.pdf
Agile project management approaches
- DSDM Consortium. This group is responsible for the DSDM Atern agile project management framework www.dsdm.org/
- Scrum Alliance has a set of resources supporting the Scrum agile framework. www.scrumalliance.org/
- Some professional bodies – APM and PMI have their own qualifications
- PROMSG: the BCS Project Management Specialist Group www.proms-g.bcs.org
- Association for Project Management: the UK professional body for generic project management (rather than just IT) www.apm.org.uk
- Project Management Institute: US-based professional body www.pmi.org. A UK chapter of PMI exists www.pmi.org.uk
- International Project Management Association. A global umbrella association to which most national project management professional bodies are affiliated http://ipma.ch
Planning tools
- Microsoft Project: probably the most widely used project planning tool www.microsoft.com/project/en-us/project-management.aspx
- Oracle Primavera: another, perhaps more industrial, project planning tool (and much else) www.oracle.com/eppm
- Smartsheet is an easy to use tool for small one-off projects where there is a need to do things quick and simple way
Quality
- TickIT: UK initiative to tailor ISO9001 to specifically IT development. www.tickit.org
- Details of the SEI Capability Maturity Model (CMMI). www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/
Estimation and measurement
- UK Software Metrics Association contains useful information and/or links relating to function points of various types. www.uksma.co.uk/
Project organisation
- PRINCE2, the UK government-sponsored standard for project management procedures. www.prince-officialsite.com/
General keeping up to date
- Project Management Today, trade magazine www.pmtoday.co.uk/
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