Part III: Your Project Management Action Tools

This section contains tools in the form of worksheets, guidelines, and checklists to help you complete each of the actions you identified as important in Part II. While you won’t need to use every tool for every project, you are likely to find that these tools contain valuable solutions to most of your typical project problems.

Overview

This section provides specific tools to help you “work through” each of the five project management processes. Specifically, these processes are:

   Initiating

   Planning

   Executing

   Controlling

   Closing

(For detailed explanations of these processes, see Part II: Your Essential Project Actions.)

Each Action Tool is divided into these sections:

   Assignment—a description of the assignment or specific project management task that this Action Tool will support.

   Desired Outputs—the results that should be achieved when you complete this Action Tool.

   Worksheet and/or Guidelines—a set of step-by-step procedures to guide you through the completion of the Action Tool.

Below is a list of all the Action Tools. Note that they are organized according to the project management process they support.