Resources for Project Management

Worksheets, Articles, Hints, and Tips Shared by Members

  Functional and Design Specification Templates

• Software Functional Specification Template (PDF) provided by Donald LeVie

• Functional Specification Template Instructions (PDF) provided by Donald LeVie

• Software Statement of Work (PDF) provided by Donald LeVie

• Software Design Specification (PDF) provided by Donald LeVie

• Functional Specification template and guidelines (RTF) excerpted from Starting A Documentation Group by Peter Hartman (Clear Point Consultants Press, 1999).

• Management Skill Assessment Tool (PDF) provided by Peter Heikes

• Management Skill Assessment Instructions (PDF) provided by Peter Heikes

• Worksheet for Setting the Schedule for a Project provided by Saul Carliner

• Worksheet for Setting the Budget for a Project provided by Saul Carliner

This information is provided for your information. STC nor the Management SIG assume no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of these documents.

Links to Other Sites (specific topic areas listed alphabetically)

These links are provided for your information. Neither STC nor the Management SIG assume responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the information at these web addresses.

General management

Academy of Management

Disaster Recovery and Planning

US Federal Emergency Management Association

Documentation Management

Center for Information Development Management

Information Mapping

Estimating Schedules and Budgets

Project Management Institute

International Project Management Institute

Association for Budgeting and Financial Management

Internationalization and Localization Academy of International Business

American Translators Association

Outsourcing

Outsourcing Management Links

Special Topics

Electronic Commerce Policy

Nonprofit Management

Peter Drucker Foundation of NonProfit Leadership

Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits

Saul Carliner's page for community leaders

Security and Privacy

CERT Coordination Center

Internet Security Alliance

Federal Computer Incident Response Center

Electronic Privacy Organization

Tools and Science, and Technology (such as XML and Viruses)

McAfee Virus Information Center (has ad popups)
Provides "detailed information on where viruses come from, how they infect your system, and how to remove them."

Symantec Virus Protection - Provides "swift, global responses to computer virus threats, proactively researching and developing technologies that eliminate such threats and educating the public on safe computing practices."

Urban Legends Virus Information Site - Provides useful information about viruses and Net hoaxes. Part of the Urban Legends website--great for checking those virus hoaxes your friends send you.

Virus Bulletin HomePage - A technical journal on developments in the field of computer viruses and anti-virus products

Data Warehousing

Datawarehousing.com

The Data Warehousing Institute - An educational association in the data warehousing industry

International Association for Management of Technology

Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology, Simon Fraser University

Customer Relationship Management Directory

Distributed Management Task Force - XML mapping of CIM

IBM Developer XML

James Clark's Home Page - Technical Lead on W3C's XML 1.0 Recommendation

Microsoft Developer Network Online Web Workshop on XML

Microsoft's BizTalk Initiative

XML.COM - Online Magazine from O'Reilly and Associates and Seybold Publications

XML.ORG - Launched by OASIS as an Industry Registry/Repository to Enable XML for E-Business

XSchema - an alternative to DTD

The XML Working Group FAQ

XML-ZONE - from The Development Exchange Online Magazine

Issues in Science and Technology Online