How to Manage a Great Project: Free Resources

There are over 30 ‘Organising Yourself’ tools and templates for you to download, along with videos and posters.

If you are not a reader, you are still welcome to download the tools, but you will find clear explanations of how to use them – along with the eight clear steps to managing a great project – in the book.  So I hope you will want to buy a copy soon.

All Steps

• How to Manage a Great Project: Eight Steps and Four Stages Poster
• Video: The Eight Steps
• Video: The Four Stages

Step 1: What do you want?

• Project Definition Document
• Video: The Time-Cost-Quality Triangle

Step 2: Does it stack up?

• Business Case v1
• Business Case v2
• Project Budget

Step 3: Who cares?

• Stakeholder Analysis
• Stakeholder Communication Plan
• Sample Role Descriptions
• Video: Stakeholder Triage

Step 4: How will you get what you want

• The Book of the Plan
• Video: The Book of the Plan
• Book of the Plan File Index
• Project Plan Checklist
• Schedule of Project Outcomes and Deliverables
• Milestone Table
• Gantt Chart (Word)
• Gantt Chart (Excel)
• Quality Plan
• Health & Safety Plan

Step 5: Who will help?

• Project Resource Plan
• Work Package Definition
• Responsibility Grid
• Skills Requirement Schedule

Step 6 What if it goes wrong?

• Video: The Risk Management Process
• Risk Action Plan
• Risk Register (Word)
• Risk Register (Excel)

Step 7: How is it going?

• Video: The Monitor and Control Cycle
• Progress Report
• Exception Report
• Milestone Status Report
• Change Request
• Change Request Log (Word)
• Change Request Log (Excel)

Step 8: How did it go?

• Project Completion Report
• Lessons Learned Report
• Project Closure Report
• Project Lessons Learned Log
• Operational Use Memo
• Project Closure Memo