General PM Forums

1. All PM Forum: Register to take part in this discussion among project managers from all over the world. Active forum areas include career and job talk, help topics, software and tools, certification, best practices and methodologies.
2. Planning Planet Forum: A popular forum, where the “best planners, schedulers and project controllers network.” Topics include planning, scheduling, programming, forensic claims, risk analysis and resource usage.
3. PMForum: PMFORUM is a resource for information on international project management affairs. The PMFORUM supports the development, international cooperation, promotion and advancement of a professional and worldwide project management discipline.
4. Project Management Discussion: There is a great deal of depth to this site – both in the forums and in the many other sections of the site. Please take your time, explore, learn, contribute.
5. Project Management: Networking, Forum and Jobs: You must join LinkedIn to become a member of this group. Currently, this network contains 410,000+ members, with keywords including training, education, certification, job, career, human resources and more.
6. Project Manager Blog: This link leads to the forums site within the blog. You can follow the forums with a group RSS to follow discussions on PM software, project management training and resources for career advancement.
7. Project Manager Jobs Forum: Indeed sponsors this forum, which focuses on jobs, interview preparation, resumes and other tips and tools that can help you land a job in this career path.
8. Project Managers: This is a community that offers blogs, event calendars, job opportunities and the ability to join groups or to create your own group. These groups replace the usual forum format.
9. ProjectsCenter Project Management Forum: You can enter discussions about management software, construction projects, jobs or learn about calls for papers at this broad-range project management forum.

Project Management Communities

1. Australian Institute of Project Management: AIPM members can participate in forums and gain access to other member-only areas within this Web site.
2. Project Management Club: Join Ecademy for exclusive business networking with other project managers.Ecademy is a membership organization for entrepreneurs and business owners who belong to a community that connects, supports and transacts with one another.
3. Project Management Community of Practice: Although you may not be able to participate in this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) PM community (unless you are an employee), the information gathered by this group is available for anyone to read.
4. Project Management Knowledge Base: PMKB is a community of project planners and managers sharing experiences and knowledge. With free registration you can respond to polls upload content, review books or software and gain access to other special features.
5. Project Management Professional Community: This is a private members site for project management professionals filled with educational project management materials, news and information.
6. Project Risk Management Community of Practice: This group enhances the project risk management practice and its contributions to effective project management by developing a forum for networking, knowledge content and active practitioner engagement.
7. Project Times: Project Management Times is a popular online resource dedicated 100 percent to project management. They focus on providing project management education through articles, blogs, white papers, online training, books, jobs and community.
8. The ICPM: More of a community than a forum, the International Community for Project Managers is a free collaborative Web presence that provides project management information, resources and the opportunity to meet and network with peers, engage in meaningful discussion and generally keep up with what’s happening in the profession.

Project-Specific PM Forums

1. ASAP Methodology and Project Management: Ask your questions and share experiences around the use of the new ASAP Core and Business Add-ons.
2. Clarizen Work Management — Community: This link leads to the forums within this site, which is dedicated to project managers who use Clarizen. You also can tap into tutorials, blogs and training through this site.
3. Engineering Project Management Forum: if you have project management questions or answers and you are an engineer, this forum may help your quest. The careers range from aeronautic to structural engineers, and topics include methodology, corporate survival and trends and strategies.
4. Gantthead.com: This link leads to the forum at Gantthead, the online community for IT project managers. The forum is fairly well populated and filled with queries and answers about projects, risk management, the CAPM exam and other relevant topics.
5. IT Project Manager Jobs Forum: Another Indeed forum, specific to IT project managers. Most of the topics concern getting a job rather than job offers.
6. Prince 2 IPMF: This International Project Management Forum serves and an interactive open resource to support Prince 2 and project management in general. The portal includes a wide range of facilities, including an FAQ, directory and download area.
7. ]project-open[ — Project Management: Join the discussions about project management within the open source community. This forum is sponsored by SourceForge.
8. Smarter Tools: Register to participate in forums specific to managing communication tools and statistical Web projects. The forums are active, and the most active topic concerns SmarterMail.
9. Tek-Tips Project Management Forum: This link leads to the project management forum under project and data management. The forum is low volume, yet good quality, with great questions and intelligent ideas that could help you with your IT projects.
10. Telerik Team Pulse: An interesting view into a team-run forum based upon management of a wide variety of developer tools. The board is active, mainly with general discussions.
11. The SAP Fan Club Forums: Sometimes you can meet the very best in your field by visiting the most well respected and utilized tools in the field. Since nearly every project manager uses SAP in some respect, this is a great source of information to visit.
12. Webmaster World: Specific to IT, yet this forum site holds tons of information about project management and is filled with individuals who have specific skills. Great networking opportunity.
13. WizIQ Project Management Community: This community and its forum is centered on online education and the WizIQ product. Students and teachers can share in dialogue and in the ability to teach and learn online.

However, as you learn to be a better project manager, it can help to have access to resources that can provide you with information to help you improve your skills as a project manager. The Internet can help you find information on best practices, and help you learn more about time management and about budget management. Find out about various principles related to project management, and how to apply those principles to your work. Here are 20 great sites that project managers can use for reference:

General Project Management

Learn about best practices, leadership and different types of management. General information about project management can be found on these sites, as well as helpful tips and ideas.

1. BetterManagement.com: Answers questions about management and project management. Get information on best practices, have your leadership questions answered, and learn about more.
2. Q&A: Project Management and Coordination: Some great answers to questions about project management. Learn about coordination, and learn about inspiring work. Find out about project design, and leadership. Plenty of great information.
3. Project Management Best Practices: Great tips and answers to questions about project management and best practices. You can get great ideas from experienced project managers. This resource is helpful and interesting for all sorts project managers.
4. Project Management Questions and Answers: Detailed resource answers questions about project management. You can learn about projects and change, and how to implement a successful project. A great way to learn more about good project management.
5. Project Management Q&A: Answers.com has a project management Q&A wiki. You can read what others have to say about project management and provide your own insights. This is a great question and answer site that allows you to interact with other project managers and gain from others’ experience.
6. Adventures in Project Management: A great blog that answers a number of questions about project management. Learn about more effective practices, and find out how to communicate with others, and improve your abilities.
7. Project Management Q&A: Cool Facebook page that helps you get questions about project management. Post up a question about project management and get an answer.
8. Project Management 101: Learn more about project management from this great resource. Includes answers to questions many project managers might have. Looks at the basics of project management, and includes resources related to time management, budget management, productivity and more.

Time Management

Learn how to manage time better. Find out more about scheduling, organization and more. Get tips on better time management and effectively managing project deadlines.

9. Time Management: Learn more about time management and how you can better take advantage of the time you have. Tips, skills and answers to questions about time management skills.
10. Time Management that Works: Get answers to questions about time management. Find out more about what you can do to increase your productivity and others’ productivity. Plenty of great advice and answers.
11. Six Time Management Tips for Project Managers: Learn more about what it takes to be a good project manager. Manage your time more effectively so that you can be productive — and encourage your team to be productive. Great answers from Project Smart.
12. Project Time Management: Great information on managing time as a project manager. Questions about better use of time are answered, and it can help you to learn more about management. Learn techniques that can help you.
13. Project Manager Interview – Time Management: Get answers to questions you might have had about time management. A great resource for project managers who are looking to learn more about time management and productivity. Find out more about project management and schedules.
14. Time Management: The Free Management Library offers insights into time management. Takes a look at some of the questions many have about time management, and how you can be more productive. You have access to tips on time management, and reducing stress.

Budget Management

Project managers need to keep tabs on expenses. Learn some great principles of money management. Budget management is an essential skills related to projects, and you can find out more about it online.

15. Project Budget Management: Find out more about managing budgets on projects. Answer questions about project budget management. A great resource that can help you with ongoing budget management while you keep your finances on track.
16. Delivering Under Budget in your Project Management Life Cycle: If you have questions about how you can deliver under budget, this resource can help. Find answers to questions about budgeting and learn more about being a better project manager.
17. Creating your project budget: Where to begin?: If you don’t know where to begin with creating a project budget, you can use the answers in this resource. A great resource answering questions about budgets for project managers.
18. Budgeting Principles: If you have questions about basic budgeting principles, this is a great resource. This site focusing on sport and recreation management also includes solid information about budgeting that can help you as you manage project budgets and work to succeed as a project manager. A great resource.
19. Principles of Resource Planning & Resource Management: Project managers can benefit from having answers about resource planning and resource management. If you want to learn about better budgeting for your project, this resource can provide you with answers. Learn more more about budgeting and resource allocation.
20. Budgeting: Planning for success: This is a great resource from the Principles of Accounting. You can learn the basics of budgets, and use the information to better prepare yourself as a project manager. Learn more about money, resources and how to better allocate them. A good, in-depth resource related to budgeting, resources and helpful in project management.

Technology only improves the ability you have to manage projects. Thanks to gadgets like the Android phone, you can access everything you need right from your pocket. Project managers can use a wide variety of application to help them accomplish great things. Here are 33 useful Android apps for project management:

Documents and Sharing

These Android apps make it easy to access documents, and to share them with others. A great way to make sure everything you need is readily available. You can also use these apps to share important information with your team and more effective coordinate efforts.

1. TouchDown: If you want to make sure you can share information and access your email and other important items from wherever you are, you might consider TouchDown. This Android app gives you the ability to access what you need, from your company’s server, no matter where you are.
2. Quickoffice: Another Android app that allows you access to Word and Excel other Office applications.
3. Documents To Go: A great Android app that allows you to carry important documents with you. You can use spreadsheets, Word and even a slideshow application. You can even edit as needed. An awesome application for any project manager.
4. DocScanner: Use this app to turn business cards into enriched data. Perfect when you are looking for new vendors and making new contacts.
5. Scan2PDF: Use your Android phone to scan documents to PDF. You can use the phone to capture documents as images, storing them on your phone, and making them available to share. A great way to document information.
6. Droid Scan: Another great scanning app that allows you to capture and share.
7. Upvise: A great collaboration app for the Android. You can use this to manage contacts, track leads and other opportunities, record ideas and even share. The best is that you can share your thoughts and other important information easily, even collaborating with those who aren’t using Android phones.
8. PrinterShare: No matter where you are, you can send information to printers at home or the office. A great way to share information and documents. If you can’t be somewhere, your report can be. This printing and sharing app can be quite helpful.
9. ShareYourBoard: If you want to capture and share your whiteboard data, this is the app for you. A great way to make sure that team members can all see your whiteboard. You can get an image, and the app helps you process it so that it is easy to read — and to share.
10. SMB File Sharing: You can use this app to share files with team members, and to access your system from anywhere. Great way to keep in touch with others — and with your computer at the office.
11. Dropbox: The classic way to make sure you have access to your files, photos and other information you might need for a project.
12. Gdocs: Synchronize your Google docs with your Android. Perfect if you want easy access from anywhere.

Task Management and Scheduling

Keep up with your schedule, and keep track of your tasks with help from the following apps. These Android apps will help you follow your plan and mark milestones. Great applications to ensure that your meetings take place, and that you know what’s coming next.

13. ActionComplete: This is an awesome task manager based on the Getting Things Done methodology. Perfect for project managers who want to see the plan all laid out. Easy to check off different actions as they are completed.
14. Astrid: Google offers you an easy to use task manager. You can create lists of things that need to be done for the completion of your project, and you can even prioritize. A handy app.
15. TooDo: You can synchronize your task management app online, helping you keep things together. List what needs to be done, and check off the items. A great way to meet your milestones.
16. Remember the Milk: This task manager is about more than making a shopping list. You can prioritize, and you can even set it up to allow you to see which items are near your location. Perfect for the project manager who has to be at more than one site.
17. Todoroo Beta: Great task manager that can help you with productivity, and help you manage financial aspects of your projects.
18. Advanced Task Manager: Great application for keeping on top of all of your tasks associated with your projects. Includes shortcuts and other useful tools.
19. Jorte: This scheduling app helps you keep track of appointments. Great for entering project deadlines, and meetings. You can even sync it with Google to ensure that it is integrated with your calendar and other Google apps.
20. TouchCalendar: If you have a sufficiently advanced Android phone, you can use the pinch, tap and scroll features. Includes a great calendar search for convenience.
21. Agenda Widget: Use this to integrate your calendar and task manager. An amazing tool.
22. Enhanced Calendar: Use this great enhanced calendar from Gmail is great. The enhanced calendar web app for Android helps you keep everything straight.
23. Pocket Informant: Helps you organize tasks and keep your project on the right track.
24. GTasks: Use this to take notes and manage tasks. Synchronize with multiple Google accounts.

Note Taking and Reminders

Sometimes it can help to have little reminders — as well as a place to take notes. If something occurs to you, you can jot it down. These apps can also remind you of important events. Great way to make sure your ideas, observations and analysis are properly recorded and available for your use later.

25. Evernote: One of the best note taking apps is Evernote. You can use this to take snapshots as well. Tag your notes and organize them so that you can find vital information on different parts of your project quickly and easily.
26. Catch: A note taking app that helps you remember information. Capture thoughts and images and organize for perusal later.
27. Note Everything: Observations can be saved and used later. Don’t lose the great ideas you have for your project.
28. Voice Recorder: Make voice notes. Also, you can record important meetings for later.
29. Easy Reminder: Use this app to remind you of tasks, meetings and other upcoming events and milestones.
30. GooMemo: You can take notes, make memos, and organize your thoughts.
31. AK Notepad: Helps you take notes and set reminders.
32. ColorNote Notepad Notes: Awesome app that lets you color code notes and reminders.
33. PhonePlusCallback: Reminder to return calls you missed. Great for reminding you to get in touch when you’ve missed someone.

2009

1. Data X Stream: DataXstream is an SAP Systems Integration and Consulting firm with over 14 years experience implementing SAP solutions. They offer a blog that looks at systems integration and architecture (October).
2. Managing the Work: This blog is run by the Daptiv team and is written for individuals who seek to improve the management of work in their organizations, whether execs, managers or team members. The Daptiv team builds solutions to help organizations work more efficiently and collaboratively across roles, departments and time zones to get the work done (October).
3. Project Management That Works! Rick A. Morris, PMP, is an ITIL Practitioner, consultant, author, mentor, and owner of R2 Consulting. Rick is an accomplished project manager and public speaker. His appetite for knowledge and passion for the profession makes him a sought after speaker at PMI chapters, civic organizations, and a frequent guest lecturer at local universities (October).
4. BradEgeland.com: If you decide to seek out Brad’s services, what you will get is an experienced professional who is more interested in actually understanding your true needs, how you got to where you are now, and what will satisfy you in the end. Read his blog to learn more about his methods (November).
5. Papercut Edge: Project management has been around a long time but for every one company that’s project management “aware,” there are thousands of companies who aren’t. Geoff Crange’s goal on the web is to help people learn about portfolio, program and project planning, and why it’s so important (November).

2010

6. Management Scholarship Academy: This blog is a place to share useful and interesting articles on project management and people skills with budding project managers, especially in India. PSA also wants to make MS Academy blog the project managers’ forum to share your project management success stories, pain points and unique solutions (January).
7. PM SNACK: Mykola Dudar became a program manager in 2004 with a focus on process and the business side of software engineering. His blog is about program and project management in software engineering. (January).
8. Project File: This blog is part of a larger site filled with blogs, feeds, downloads, books and more for project managers. Although the site blog is out of date, the other blogs on this site are current (January).
9. The Hard-Nosed Project Manager: Patrick Richard is project manager and technical lead in a wide variety of applications centered on pharma, biotech, food, and beverage manufacturing. This is his blog, filled with his thoughts about project management and resources (January).
10. Project Management Success: This site aims to offer information for those getting started in Project Management or following up on becoming qualified through recognized certifications such as a Project Management Professional (PMP, PMBOK) or Prince2 Practitioner (Prince2) in the UK (February).
11. APM: The Association for Project Management blog is committed to developing and promoting project and program management through its Five Dimensions of Professionalism. The association is a registered charity with over 18,000 individual and 500 corporate members making it the largest professional body of its kind in Europe (March).
12. Blog: Project Management: This blog helps you improve your project management by providing articles, opinions, commentary and many related resources. The blog is for a general audience, including beginners and those advanced in project management (March).
13. i-nexus: This business execution system launched a blog last year that holds few blog entries, but includes a range of white papers, Webinars, and other best practice resources. Visitors to this site also are able to view demos of the latest release of i-nexus’s ground breaking Business Execution Platform (March).
14. One Less Cut In A Thousand: About, because of, for, or involving technology, project delivery, unintended consequences. “Tends towards old man grumpiness with a permanent fascination with stupidity at all levels” (March).
15. PMO Perspectives: ESI International maintains this blog. ESI International helps people around the world improve the way they manage their projects, contracts, requirements and vendors through innovative learning. This blog is to re-enforce our commitment to the industry and provide a useful tool to the PMO Community (March).
16. Programme and Project Management Community: This blog provides a place for all program and project management blogs that are available today. Feedback, comments and various ratings systems have been set up to ensure that the PPM Community (and, ultimately the project and program management blogosphere) pass on their thoughts about the blogs they read everything (March).
17. Project Management At Work: This is a MindEdge resource for project management. MindEdge is an innovative, educational content provider of online training and courseware to colleges, universities, associations, and corporations (April).
18. Around the Chaos: ATC is about is about Enterprise Technology. Technology can help getting around the chaos, if leveraged correctly. The rate at which technology evolves, to say the least is phenomenal…from collaboration and communication to administration and governance, “technology touches and improvises everything” (May).
19. Chris Le Compte: Chris owns Cavendo and works at Web design project management and information architecture(June).
20. Project Management Review: Son Nguyen, PMP, PMI-RMP works as a project manager and has managed various ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) projects in chemical, telecommunication and transportation industries. He shares his personal experience in project management in this blog, in taking PMI credentials to be a PMP, PMI-RMP (June).
21. The Practicing IT Project Manager: This site was created as a resource for project managers, program managers, business analysts, and portfolio managers, including those who work in IT departments, those who work for IT solution vendors, and those who offer their services as consultants. Students are welcome, but the focus will be on practitioners of the craft of project management (June).
22. PM Technix: Bruce Lofland has been a Project Manager in the Kansas City area since 1999 and a certified PMP since 2007. He was a software developer for many years before that on a wide variety of platforms. PM Technix is a blog about practical techniques to manage projects that can be used by most project managers (July).
23. Agile Product and Project Management Blog: Rick Gessner and Eric Krock lead a blog that focuses on agile, scrum and hybrid methodology insights (August).
24. APMG-International: APMG-International accredits training organizations, trainers and training materials and certify examination candidates through a variety of methods. Their regional offices are located in Australia, China, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Malaysia, the United States and the United Kingdom (August).
25. Public sector pm: Resources are tight and the public sector is being forced to transform at an unprecedented rate, just to maintain current service levels. Effective project and program management lies at the heart of successful business change. This blog aims to identify and celebrate best practice in the UK (November).

This list of the top 25 Open Source project management apps offers a wide variety of software tools, from those that provide simplicity for personal projects to complicated disaster-management software systems. Each link is listed alphabetically, and the link leads to the software site where you can download the apps to try them out.

1. Achievo resource management capabilities include project management, a scheduler and time registration in 20 languages. No license fees or other limitations on use of the software.
2. ClockingIT is a free hosted application that keeps track of all your tasks and the time you spend on them. Uses Ajax, Comet and drag and drop technology to keep track of one or several projects.
3. Codendi is an open-source collaborative development platform offered by Xerox for managing software project processes. Codendi gathers management and versioning of code, bugs, requirements, documents, reporting and tests.
4. Collabtive is a Web-based project management software that strives to provide an Open Source alternative to proprietary tools like Basecamp or ActiveCollab.
5. dotProject is a web-based project management application, designed to provide project layout and control functions. dotProject aims to provide the project manager with a tool to manage tasks, schedules, communication and sharing.
6. eGroupWare is a groupware software intended for a wide range of business sizes. Manage contacts, appointments, projects and to-do lists. It is used either via its native Web-interface or by using different supported groupware clients.
7. faces is a self-described “Swiss Army Knife for Project Managers,” a flexible, automated, calculating, extensible and simulating tool based on Python and easy to learn.
8. GanttProject is a cross-platform desktop tool for project scheduling and management. It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOSX, it is free and its code is Open Source.
9. KForge provides a complete Web interface for review and administration of project members and services, as well as a fully-developed plugin system so that new kinds of services can be added easily.
10. Memoranda is an open source cross-platform diary manager and a tool for scheduling personal projects. Memoranda is intended for those people whose daily work is shared between a few different projects, and helps individuals stay on top of personal tasks as well.
11. Open Workbench is an open source desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality. Already the scheduling standard for more than 100,000 project managers worldwide, Open Workbench is a free and powerful alternative to Microsoft Project.
12. phpCollab is an open source internet-enabled system for use in projects that require collaboration over the Internet. Organizations such as consulting firms that rely on a division between firm-side and client-side information will benefit most from use of phpCollab.
13. phpEasyProject is an Open Source project management system primarily focused toward middle-class businesses from independent and small businesses to the service provider.
14. Project HQ is a collaborative open source project management tool, similar to Basecamp and activeCollab. It is built on technologies such as Python, Pylons and SQLAlchemy and is fully database independent.
15. ]project-open[ is a web-based "Enterprise Project Management" software for project-based organizations with 2-200 users. ]po[ integrates areas such as CRM, sales, project planning, project tracking, collaboration, time sheet, invoicing and payments, and is one of the most popular project management tools in Germany.
16. Projectivity is an Open Source Enterprise Management Platform combining unique tools for portfolio, project and knowledge management and collaboration. It uses Frameworks to turn the platform into a specific application, so you can make this app work for you.
17. Projectory is an open source, platform-independent, Web-enabled project management tool designed to track software projects through all phases of development. Projectory lets you track actual development effort expended by teams or individuals across multiple projects and activities.
18. ProjectPier is a self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive Web interface. ProjectPier is similar to commercial groupware/project management products, but allows the freedom and scalability of self-hosting.
19. ProjectVia.net is highly customizable project management environment, capable of simultaneously managing several projects. It is a Web-based project management and collaboration support system based on JCorporate Expresso framework.
20. Redmine is written with Ruby on Rails framework, and provides a cross-platform and cross-database foundation that tracks networking issues, capacity planning, trouble tickets and more. It includes calendar and Gantt charts to aid visual representation for projects and deadlines.
21. Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.
22. TaskJuggler is a modern and powerful Open Source project management tool. Its new approach to project planing and tracking is more flexible to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools and scales easily to projects with hundreds of resources and thousands of tasks.
23. Todoyu is a Web 2.0 project and task management application that features project management, time tracking, team organizing, task distribution, resource management, calendar and a client interface.
24. Trac is an open source Web-based project management and bug-tracking tool that allows wiki markup in issue descriptions and commit messages, creating links and seamless references between bugs, tasks, changesets, files and wiki pages.
25. WebCollab is a collaborative web-based system for projects and project management. The software is ideally suited to tracking multiple projects and innumerable small tasks across an organization of any size.

There are three categories in this list, and they are focused on individuals who write about project management, blogs produced by businesses that sell software and other tools for project management, and several blogs with a special focus, such as women or students. Each blog is listed alphabetically by the blog title within these categories.

Project Management Blogs

1. Back of the Napkin Blog: Dan Roam believes that any problem can be solved with a picture, and that anybody can draw it.
2. Brad Egeland: Brad has 23 years of IT and business management experience, of which 17+ years are enterprise project management experience.
3. Eric D. Brown: Eric talks about technology, strategy, people and projects.
4. Fear No Project: Bruce McGraw shares his thoughts and experiences on issues that affect project managers and the world of project management.
5. Guerilla Project Management: Enjoy a wide variety of posts gathered from across the Web that focus on project management.
6. Herding Cats: Glen Alleman provides ideas, comments and resources for readers who are interested in project management.
7. Leading Answers: Mike Griffiths is an independent project manager, trainer and consultant.
8. PM Karma: Sreejith shares his passions in project management, planning, management systems development and more.
9. PM Think! This long-running blog talks about the latest in project and portfolio management. Several authors contribute, including Jerry Manas.
10. Project Management Blog: Joao Almeida, a project manager professional and certified trainer, provides project management news and discussions.
11. Project Shrink Blog: Bas de Baar discusses project leadership in a global and virtual world through his popular blog and video podcast.
12. Project Steps: Stephen Seay has been a project manager in the IT/Telecom industries for almost 20 years.
13. Quantmleap: Shim Marom, a project manager, shares his collection of thoughts about project management, among other things.
14. Scott Berkun: Scott’s work as a writer and public speaker has appeared in major publications. His books include Making Things Happen and The Myths of Innovation.
15. Stepping into Project Management: This “newbie” is an assistant project manager traces his journey from student to job in this blog.
16. The Critical Path: Derek Huether, a certified project manager, offers free project management information, advice and templates.
17. The Lazy Project Manager: Author of the book by the same name as the site, Peter Taylor offers his thoughts on project management.
18. The Tao of Project Management: If you want to learn the Taoist way to project management, tap into John Carroll’s blog.
19. Work Matters: Robert Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford and the author of The No Asshole Rule.

Business, Software and Certification Blogs

20. Agile Project Management: Patrick Merg is an Agile project manager who creates, sells, and delivers business software solutions.
21. CaseySoftware: CaseySoftware features dotProject hosting and maintenance specially designed for small development groups.
22. Deep Fried Brain: This is a PM certification blog focused on resources, tips and study notes.
23. Dennis McDonald’s Weekly Top Ten: Turn to this site to learn more about project management in technology through various Web sites.
24. Gantthead: Dave Garrett, president and CEO of gantthead.com, is dedicated to creating value for the project management community.
25. How to Manage a Camel: This is a project management and recruitment blog maintained by the Arras People.
26. Journyx Project Management Blog: Journyx, the creator of Web-based tools for project accounting, offers a blog on how to manage your projects.
27. Mark Phillips: Mark is the product manager and lead spokesperson for Vertabase, a Web project management software company.
28. Papercut Edge: Geoff Crane offers a blog that reflects the use of Papercut project management software.
29. Paul Pondering: Paul Rasmussen talks about time management using a variety of software.
30. Pawel Brodzinski on Software Project Management: This blog is dedicated to project management, software development, team building, managing a software company and more.
31. PM Hut: Read information on topics that range from certification to time management and training.
32. PMAlliance Project Management Blog: PMAlliance offers project management consulting, project management training and project office development services.
33. PMcrunch: Learn about online project management, PM soft skills and the certification process.
34. Project Management 2.0: Andrew
35. Project Management That Works! Rick A. Morris, PMP, is an ITIL Practitioner, consultant, author, mentor, and owner of R2 Consulting.
36. Projects@Work: This blog focuses on certificates and software at the professional level.
37. ProjectManager Blog: Learn about procurement management, project manager roles and more from this business site.
38. The @task Blog: @task is committed to building and delivering the most secure, reliable and responsive project and portfolio management solution around.
39. The Enlightened Manager Blog: Cheri Baker is the owner of Emergence Consulting, an Organizational Development Consulting firm based near Seattle, WA.
40. Voices on Project Management: Voices on Project Management is the place for all things project management, provided by the Project Management Institute.

Project Management for Special Interests

41. A Girl’s Guide to Project Management: Elizabeth Harrin, author of Project Management in the Real World, focuses her blog on women and project management.
42. A Path to Peace: Margaret Meloni, helps professionals become free from the work-related conflict that prevents them from having good working relationships.
43. Earth PM: This blog is focused on project management and sustainability regarding climate change, resource preservation and “green.”
44. Noop.NL: Jurgen is a writer, speaker, developer, entrepreneur, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker and a serial business owner.
45. PM Bistro: Chalyce and Jen cover a lot of ground in this blog about project management.
46. PM Podcast: Cornelius Fichtner, PMP, is the host of this show and blog.
47. pmStudent: Josh Nankivel founded pmStudent in 2006 to help himself and others learn more about project management as a discipline and career.
48. The Cranky Product Manager: The Cranky Product Manager is a fictional product management professional at a fictional enterprise software vendor named DysfunctoSoft. Enjoy the stories.
49. The Green PM: Jhaymee Wilson is a passionate female project management expert and advocate for global sustainability.
50. The pm411.org Project Management Podcast: This is a project management Internet radio show and discussion forum as well as a blog.

If you are interested in brushing up your project management skills or learning more about the field, here are 50 free open courseware classes that can help you learn what you need to know as a project manager:

Operations and Systems Management

Learn how to design and carry out different projects, from manufacturing operations to service operations. Learn about systems management, including data systems, and get help with the most basic aspects of being a project manager.

1. Operations Management: This course from MIT is just what it sounds like: A class that can help you conceptualize your operations.
2. Systems Optimization: Models and Computation: Learn about how to optimize the systems that you manage from this MIT course.
3. System and Project Management: Learn about different systems and how to manage different types of projects.
4. Management in Engineering: Project management is growing in engineering, and you can get a look at specifically how to manage projects and systems in the engineering field.
5. Systems Design and Administration: Learn about system design and how to manage these systems once they are in place.
6. Global Issues in Information Technology: Weber State University offers a look at some of the issues you are likely to run into when managing IT projects.
7. Lean/Six Sigma Processes: Another offering from MIT, this addresses popular forms of project management.

Business Management

A good project manager often has to have a good grasp of business management in order to properly lead and complete projects. When budgets are involved, business management becomes especially important.

8. Successful Management Techniques and Strategies: Peking University offers this look at successful management.
9. Understanding Management: The Open University presents a helpful class that introduces management.
10. Managerial Economics: Utah State University offers this course on management and economics.
11. Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting: Keep on course with your budget with help from this MIT course.
12. Introduction to Strategic Management: Capilano University offers this course on managing strategicaly.
13. International Institute of Management: Get access to a number of classes on strategy, management and projects.
14. Experiments in Economics: Learn about economics and other business management topics from the Open Learning Initiative.
15. Product Design and Development: Helpful information on how to design and develop products.

Communication

Good communication is essential for the successful project manager. Understanding how to communicate effectively with your team and with your superiors is important.

16. Communicating with Data: Learn how to use data to effectively communicate your points. Especially useful when showing superiors the results of your project.
17. Communications Systems I: Learn about how we communicate, and the development of different types of communication.
18. Communication: This basic course can help you learn to communicate better.
19. Business Communications in the Age of Spin: Gresham College offers this interesting look at how to cut through the spin and communicate the essentials.
20. How to Conduct a Meeting in an Intercultural Setting: Connexions offers this helpful course on more effectively conducting meetings.
21. Marketing communications as a strategic function: Another offering from The Open University provides insight into communications and marketing.
22. Advanced Workshop in Writing for Science and Engineering: Learn how to better communicate in writing.

Leadership

One of the essential traits of effective project management is being a good leader. Here are some open courseware classes that can help you develop leadership skills.

23. Effective Leadership: A presentation on being a more effective leader.
24. Practical Leadership: Learn, from MIT, how to lead in a manner that you can put into effective practice.
25. Leadership and Agility: Get insight on being a flexible leader.
26. Management vs. Leadership: Get a handle on the differences between being a manager and being a leader.
27. Leadership Tools and Teams: Learn different leadership tools, and how to use them in a team environment.
28. Defying Gravity: Learn the characteristics that help leaders overcome challenges.
29. Designing and Leading the Entrepreneurial Organization: Learn the basics of leading an organization.

Organizational Management

Understand how organizations work, and learn about organizational behavior to help you better manage your projects.

30. Optimization Methods in Management Science: Learn how to optimize your management techniques.
31. Managing Transformations in Work, Organizations and Society: Learn how to manage and organization through change.
32. Organizational Processes: This is another MIT class focused on organizations and processes.
33. Emotional Intelligence: Connexions offers this look at understanding the emotions of a group.
34. Introduction to business cultures: Learn how business cultures affect organizational management.
35. Leading Organizations II: Get a handle on how to properly lead organizations and projects.
36. Creating an ethical organisation: The Open University looks at the traits of an organization or group with ethics.

Psychology and Relationships

Understanding how people work is an important part of effective project management. Learn how to develop relationships that result in success.

37. Building and Leading Effective Teams: Learn how to keep your team motivated and successful.
38. Power Play: Gresham College offers a class on power, and how it works in organizations and project teams.
39. Making and using rules: Learn the basics behind creating rules, and how you can use them for more effective teams.
40. Managerial Psychology: Get a look at the psychology of management.
41. Giving and Receiving Feedback: This course from BBC Academy teaches you ways to give good feedback — as well as to receive suggestions.
42. Managing relationships: Learn how to manage the relationships in your project group.
43. Three Faces of Social Psychology: Notre Dame offers a good look at social psychology.

Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution

In order to have a successful project, you need to understand how to solve problems and resolve conflicts.

44. Implementing the project: Overcoming the problems and challenges you might have with a project.
45. Introduction to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving: Learn techniques to solve problems that can come up in some projects.
46. Problem Solving Exercise: Use this course from Capilano University to go through the process of solving a problem.
47. Concepts in Economic Evaluation: Learn how to evaluate your project’s budget and how to fix issues.
48. Negotiation and Conflict Management: Learn the basics of how to negotiate and resolve conflict.
49. Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in the Public Sector: MIT offers a helpful look at dispute resolution.
50. Communication, Conflict & Commitment: Learn about natural conflict, and how communication can help you move beyond it.

1. Basecamp: It is the top most web based project collaboration tool that is trusted by millions of people and can perform arduous tasks like sharing files, meeting deadlines, assigning tasks, centralized feedback. It daily helps to the world’s most respected brands, small businesses, non profit organizations and entrepreneurs to run their project safely and in cordial manner.
2. AMS Consulting:  It is a full service management consulting firm that provides consulting, training and assessment of client’s business performance from a project management preview. It provides services into the core sectors and areas like business analysis, business development, professional development and project management. For a long period of time it is serving to fortune 100/500 companies, medium seized business including government departments and agencies.
3. APM.org: This organization is running on its basic core and concept of developing and promoting the professional disciplines of project and programme management for the public utility and benefit. It is one type of professional body in Europe having 500 corporate and 17,500 individual members through out the Europe.  All topics there are based upon the concept of five Dimensions of Professionalism like breadth, depth, achievement, commitment and accountability.
4. Project Magazine: This website is devoted to practical knowledge and learning of project management. The site is not only devoted to general ideas about project management but also provides sequential knowledge to initiating, planning, executing, monitoring & counseling and finally closing a project management. The site’s self improvement center provides learning and ideas about leadership skills, business awareness, time management, personal finance, job seekers, leisure reading, free magazines and white papers.
5. Maxwideman: It is a Wideman Education Foundation (“WEF” 2007) that is a registered charity tax-exempt under the Canadian Federal Government Income Tax Act. It organizes project competition to have high school students a basic learning in project management skills and experience.  It develops in capable students feeling of teamwork and leadership that benefit both families and communities. Thus it is developing seeds of future project ready workforce.
6. PMI.org:  It is the world’s one of the leading organization that run on non profit basis for project management professionals and has half a million members and  credentials in 185 countries. It is known for wider base and globally recognized standards and practices, extensive research programs and professional development chances and opportunities. Expertise provided at PMI.org plays a greater role in governments, organizations, academia and industries. It also has professional award and PMI Educational foundation to carry out things in radical and in appropriate manner.
7. E-Programme:  This website is a great help for professional ranging from a wider spectrum from people world wide involved in all sorts of management program. This website caters to almost definitions of project management but is primarily related to management of portfolio of projects which can make a change in organizational routines. Here you would not only learn about project management techniques and tool but can have opinion from a number of sections  as provided in the website like Articles, Blogs, Books, Events, Forum, Jobs and profile, etc.

The benefits of ranking
There are several benefits that are associated with ranking of universities. Once the university has been ranked the best, it improves its services day by day so that it remains in the market. There is also the competitive environment whereby the universities tend to improve on the quality of what they offer. They also try to introduce new products and services. Students tend to go for the best since the research that has been conducted in order to come up with the ranks strengthens their quest. They choose the best for the best.

The ranking of masters in project management maintains that published rankings should be viewed with caution for the following because there is a variation in the ranking list where a school may be ranked number two but it appears number twenty in another list. There may also be lack of uniformity. The ranking method may also concentrate on the school itself causing some features to be eliminated. The ranking limits the population size where those with less population tend to be eliminated or ignored where as they offer the best teachings. It has also not been clear on the methodologies. These rankings are sometimes used to manipulate the schools and can be tailored to suit individuals.