Supporting Materials for Practical Project Management Book

• What is Project Management?
• Project Management vs Leadership: How to Make The Work Together

• Waterfall vs Agile Methodologies | How to Choose a PM Approach

• Stakeholder Register Template

• Project Risk Management Plan Template
• Risk Register Template
• Risk Breakdown Structure – Risk Categories

• Project Charter Template
• How to Write a Useful Project Charter in 30 minutes

Copy and paste this step-by-step process into your notes. It will be a great reference for you.

1. Determine How You Will Plan the Project
2. Determine Existing Templates, Policies, and Processes
3. Outline the Project Management Plan Contents
4. Determine Detailed Requirements
5. Determine Quality Standards, Processes, and Metrics
6. Create the Project Scope Statement
7. Determine Project Management Team
8. Create a Work Breakdown Structure
9. Assess What You Need to Buy Or Outsource
10. Breakdown Work Packages and Deliverables into Tasks
11. Identify Dependencies Between Tasks
12. Estimate Required Resources, Experts, and Materials
13. Create Human Resources Plan
14. Create Materials and Tools Acquisition Plan
15. Estimate Duration of Tasks
16. Estimate Costs of Each Task
17. Develop a Project Schedule
18. Determine the Critical Path
19. Develop Project Budget
20. Create the Process Improvement Plan
21. Determine Roles and Responsibilities
22. Plan Project Communications
23. Plan stakeholder engagement
24. Perform Risk Management Activities
25. Validate your plan
26. Create Baselines
27. Plan ways to measure performance
28. Create a Change Management Plan
29. Create a Reward and Recognition system
30. Finalize Subsidiary Plans and Create a Project Plan
31. Gain Formal Approval of the Plan
32. Present Your Plan to the Whole Team

• Project Scope Management Plan Template
• Requirements Traceability Matrix Template
• Scope Statement Example

• How to Decompose a Project into Tasks (Real Example)

Below is a high-level step-by-step process for creating an accurate schedule. You can copy-paste it as an instruction. 

1. Prepare a Schedule Management Plan
2. Set milestones for project start and end dates.
3. Add an official “holidays calendar” for each resource based on their location.
4. Add resources (or real people) and their availability.
5. Add known vacations and days off for all team members.
6. Set milestones when new resources should be available.
7. Import a list of tasks (if you didn’t do decomposition in the scheduling tool).
8. Assign resources to each task.
9. Identify dependencies.
10. Set duration for each task (copy the estimates provided by the team).
11. Identify Critical Path.
12. Do a sanity check. Do you fit into the deadline? You should have a 10-15% buffer before the deadline.
13. Move work packages to do the work in parallel. Or assign more resources to do the work faster. Or negotiate to de-scope something. 
14. Check workload for resources. People should not go over their working hours during the day.
15. Adjust schedule and resources until you fit into the deadline. Or prove that it’s impossible. Provide the Next Best Alternatives.
16. Perform Risk Management activities with your project schedule.
17. Add new risk response plans to the plan.
18. Move work packages to do the work in parallel. Or assign more resources to do the work faster. Or negotiate to de-scope something. 
19. Check workload for resources. Validate the whole project schedule.
20. Repeat the process until you have a realistic project schedule that you and your team believe in. 
21. Finalize Project Schedule Baseline.

• Simple Project Budget Template

• Virtual Meetings in Project Management
• Simple Project Management Communications Plan

Procurement management will depend on your company, industry, niche.

• My Calendar-Email Workflow in Outlook
• Weekly Project Progress Report Template