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Areas unique to this site:

Student web pages for City University's MS in Project Management. These include the program guide and course syllabi, plus other course material and PowerPoint files.

The Toolbox Bookstores. In association with Amazon.com Books, you can buy books directly from the pages below with a guarantee of Amazon's pricing and service. Below are some areas to browse, please drop me a note with your own additions, comments, or suggestions!.

• Project Management bookstore. Project Management titles plus many related authors such as Ackoff, Capra, Joiner, Kohn, Peters, Scholtes, Senge, and Wheatley.
• Stephen Covey bookstore. Books and tapes by Covey (see more on 7 Habits below).
• W. E. Deming bookstore. This area is specific to books by the late Dr. Deming or about his methods.

Additional Project Management links and resources:

• Bay Area Deming Users Group. Active group, good speakers. Monthly meeting notes are available on their web site.
• The Capability Maturity Model, from Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute.
• The CMM applied to managing people: a new application of this tool.
• City University. Headquartered in Bellevue, WA
• Clemson University's CQI server.
• Deming Electronic Network. W.E. Deming discussion group, hosted by Clemson University. One can "subscribe" and get daily discussion via e-mail. This is a great resource, but the mail volume is large (if your e-mail software won't filter incoming messages, update to Eudora 3.01 first!).
• Covey Leadership Center.
• Covey's "7 Habits" Preview of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (620k ppt file).
• The Dilbert Zone. (No comment necessary).
• DocPotter Workplace Training & Books. Beverly Potter, author of The Way of the Ronin.
• GEMS: Growing Experience in Management Series.  A neat collection of simple management tools and processes to increase effectiveness in various areas!
• GTW Corporation. Project management consultants, Project Partner software.
• Kiersey Temperament Sorter. A quick assesment of your Myers-Briggs personality type.
• The Learning Organization discussion group. One can subscribe, but there is also an excellent archive.
• Learning Organization archive for July 1997.  A sample, incuding the start of a moderated discussion of Alfie Kohn's Punished by Rewards.
• Managing for Results. National Performance Review web page, great information & links.
• The Project Management Institute (PMI). From their national office in Upper Darby, PA.
• Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. (PMI's PMBOK, zipped pdf files).
• Downloads from the PMI 1997 Symposium. Chicago, September 26 to October 2.
• PMI 1998 Symposium. Long Beach, October 9 - 15, 1998.
• Puget Sound Chapter of PMI. Meeting and job information, other links.
• Seattle Area Deming Users Group. Meets the second Tuesday each month at CityU in Renton (Noon-1:30pm)
• Software Program Managers Network.  A Department of Defense web site with free software and good information. "The Mission of the Software Program Managers Network is to enable managers of large-scale, software intensive development or maintenance projects to more effectively manage and succeed by identifying and conveying to them management Best Practices, lessons-learned, and direct support".
• Third International Congress in Quality and Reliability.  Paris, France, March 25-26, 1999. "The congress takes place at the forefront of progress, as it emphasizes on the latest results of research, and their implementation in Quality and Reliability fields. It is a prime opportunity for professionals and academics to share views"
• Tri-Cities/Columbia Basin Chapter of PMI. Nice web page with other good links...
• The Versatile Company. Project management and MS Project training & consulting.

• Adobe Acrobat. Free reader software, for pdf files (click to go there and read more).
• Eudora Light 3.01 Free e-mail software, very good. (This new version will filter messages).
• Frequently asked questions. Software tips and other information of interest. Look here for tips on Netscape setup, and downloading files & information from the web!
• LView Pro. Neat photo & graphics software - small file size but fast & powerful.
• PAR 4 (Performance Assesment and Results). New Navy software package. This is free, and runs on W95 or W3.1.
• PowerPoint Viewer & Translator. This will run on Win.3.1 or Win 95, and will allow you to view PowerPoint files created and saved in Windows versions 2 - 4, Win 95 v 7, or Mac v 3 - 4. This also includes a free translator: if you now have the full version 4, this will update that to work with v 7 files.
• PowerPoint Viewer for Win95. The 32 bit viewer version, for Windows 95 only.
• Risk Radar Database.  A neat risk management tool to help project managers identify, prioritize, and communicate project risks. (Free add-on for MSAccess, from the Software Program Managers Network.)
• Word 2 upgrade. If you're running MSWord 2, this free converter (745k file) will update it to read Word 6 files. (There is also a free stand-alone Word 6 viewer available from Microsoft).
• Vensim® PLE v1.62-11. Ventana Simulation Environment modeling software, including 28 sample models. This "Personal Learning Edition" is free.