Links

Links

The following are some links that may be of interest to you. The links provided here are for the benefit of New England Project Services visitors. They are not an endorsement of these companies or websites, or of the products or services they offer.

Warning: By clicking on any of the following links, you will leave New England Project Service's website. We are not responsible for the content on the sites you are taken to.

General Project Management Information
	The largest portal website for project managers with over 120,000 members. Full of articles (some written by New England Project Services staff) templates, discussion forums, and more.
	This is a very comprehensive resource for project managers with many articles, templates, case studies, etc. It has been developed by Robbins-Gioia, a large project management consulting company.
	Another comprehensive project management portal website. Owned by the IIL, a large project management training organization.
	ProjectsAtWork describes itself as "a community of practitioners and thought-leaders breaking down barriers and building bridges to better manage projects, programs, portfolios and teams".
	An on-line magazine about project management.
	Maintains a slightly more international perspective that some of the other websites.
	Provides information for project managers in the construction, finance and IT industries. A joint venture between gantthead.com and a consulting company Technology Associates International™.
	This is Hal Macomber's project management blog website, called Reforming Project Management theory and practice. You may not agree with all that Hal says, but you may find it interesting to reflect on his opinions.
Yahoo! Discussion Group "Mastering Project Work"	This is a link to the Yahoo! group that discusses the concepts in the book "The Blind Men and the Elephant". Read Frank Winters review of this book.

Organizations and Associations
	The Project Management Institute (PMI) is the world’s leading not-for-profit project management professional association, with over 100,000 members worldwide. New England Project Services staff have spoken at PMI conferences and written papers and articles for publication by PMI.
	IPMA comprises over thirty National Associations representing approximately 20,000 members primarily in Europe but also in Africa and Asia. They promote project management professionalism under specific cultural requirements, in all types of projects.
	ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world's largest developer of standards. ISO 9000 has become an international reference for quality management requirements in business-to-business dealings, and many IT organizations are ISO compliant, more so in Europe than the US.
Software Engineering Institute	SEI has developed several capability maturity models, of which perhaps the best known is The Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM or SW-CMM). This is a model for judging the maturity of the software processes of an organization and for identifying the key practices that are required to increase the maturity of these processes. Many organizations strive to reach a certain CMM level (such as 2 or 3) as proof of their capabilities. These various models provide excellent materials for organizations working on improving their processes.
TickIT	TickIT is an organization that aim to improve the quality of software and its application. For anyone interested in what ISO9001 certification means, and understanding how many countries are organized to provide accredited certification bodies, the TickIT organization is well worth looking at. The TickIT guide which they publish helps software organization better understand how to apply ISO9001 to their organization. TickIT also publishes an interesting quarterly journal, "TickIT International", which New England Project Services staff have published an article in.