Project management

Associations & organisations

Association for Project Management (UK)

Australian College of Project Management

Australian Institute of Project Management

International Project Management Association
IPMA represents 45 national project management associations on the international level.

Project Management Institute

Links

      Brief tutorial on Gantt charts

Business services

TAFE Studylinks

Business

Bremer Institute of TAFE's subject links

Course resources - business and office skills

North Coast Institute's web links

Free Management Library

Open Project Management Methodology GEDPRO

PRINCE2

Is a generic, tailorable, simple to follow project management method. It covers how to organise, manage and control your projects.

projectlearning.net

Provides advice to help people manage their projects better.

Project management tutorial

Proposal writing short course (Foundation Center)

Short course in project management
Applies to: Microsoft Office Project 2007, Project 2003

Project management software

List of project management software

Free software, e.g.

• GanttProject
• Open Workbench

Related subject guides

Accounting

Marketing

Small business

Directories

Australian Government Directory

Incorporating Business Australia

Project management directory

Project Management Forum
Global directory

Government information

business.gov.au
Commonwealth government site giving tips on how to run a small business together with relevant government services.

eGovernment - project management
The Tasmanian Government Project Management Framework provides guidelines, templates and tools developed in collaboration with practising project managers.

Program and project management
Provided by the Australian Government, Department of Finance and Deregulation

Legislation & standards

Australian National Competency Standards for Project Management

Developed by the Australian Institute of Project Management

Legal Research Links

Compiled by the High Court of Australia provides access to resources such as Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), ComLaw, NSW Legislation and the Australian legal information gateway WebLaw which includes the categories Corporations law and e-Commerce law.

Australian Standards Online

This subscription service gives TAFE NSW students access to over 6,500 full-text Australian standards. Search for relevant Australian standards by visiting Australian Standards Online.

Full-text access only available in your NSI Library (For downloads USB drive required) - contact your librarian.

Standard Number e.g.

AS 4915-2002 Project management - General conditions

AS 4817-2006 Project performance measurement using Earned Value

AS/NZS 4360:2004 Risk management

HB 4360:2004 Risk management guidelines companion to AS/NZS 4360:2004

AS/NZS ISO 9000:2006 - Quality management systems - Fundamentals and vocabulary

AS ISO 10006-2003 - Quality management systems - Guidelines for quality management in projects

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   eJournals & eBooks

eJournals

Freely available journals

• Journal of business systems, governance

   and ethics

• PM World Today (Free email subscription)

• PROJECTmagazine

For the entire list of free journals go to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) which provides access to over 100 free online journals on business and economics.

EBSCOhost

Click the link of one of the selected journals or databases. Log in using your DET Username and password.

ANZRC

• BusinessWeek

• Businessdate

• Total quality management & business excellence (with a 12 month delay)

Business Source Premier

• Advanced management journal

• e.learning age

• Impact assessment & project appraisal

• Journal of business communication

• Journal of structured finance (with a 12 month delay)

• Leadership excellence

• Nonprofit world

• PM network

Gale Cengage Learning

Click the link to the databases or one of the selected journals. Log in using your DET Username and password.

Gale databases

• Australian journal of management

• Research-technology management

• Risk management

eBooks

Click the link of any of the examples and then click on URL. Log in using your DET Username and password.

NetLibrary
• Goal directed project management

• Identifying and managing project risk

• IT Project Portfolio Management

• Managing virtual projects

• McGraw-Hill 36-hour project management course
• Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP)

   Certification Exam
• Show Me! Microsoft Office Project 2003

eReference

Free eReference

Glossary of business terms

Business advisor network

Project dictionary

Project management glossary

Oxford Reference Online - Premium

Log in using your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of your username. Once you have logged into the database, click on Subjects & Books and go to Economics & business.

Oxford Reference Online

• A dictionary of business and

   management

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website. Includes statistics and some analysis of information from the National Census and other sources.  Allows for the creation of local area profiles.

http://www.abs.gov.au/

Freely available

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre - EBSCO's searchable database provides full text, and index access to many local and international magazines, newspapers and reference books. Most general subjects are covered.

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This subscription service gives TAFE NSW students access to over 6,500 full-text Australian Standards. Search for relevant Australian Standards by visiting

http://www.saiglobal.com/shop

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This multi-disciplinary database provides more than 1,750 general reference publications with full text information. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest.

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Business Source Premier

Business Source Premier (BSP)is one of the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals. Full text coverage is provided in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

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Gale databases provide access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics. The sub-collection General OneFile includes over 6,300 full-text titles and 400 newspaper services (a total of more than 11,000 titles). Also included in the subscription are the 'General Reference Centre Gold', the Environmental Studies and Policy Collection and the 'Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure Collection'.

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Kompass worldwide contains 2.3M companies in 66 countries referenced by 57.000 product & service keywords 860.000 trade names and 4.6M executive name.This freely available version does not include advanced search features and only provides brief company profiles.

http://www.kompass.com

Freely available
(Register to get access to the full list of companies)

MarketLine offers a comprehensive collection of company, industry and country information. MarketLine products include:

• Industry profiles for 50,000 public and private companies

• Country profiles presenting easy-to-digest summaries and standardized data

• Key macro-economic, social, demographic and industry statistics for 215 countries

• News, comment and analysis on the latest business developments

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