Project management resources from Tasmania

Tasmania is an archipelago comprising more than 300 islands situated about 250 Km south of the Australian continent, from which is separated by the Bass Strait. The main island is named Tasmania after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who reported its existence on 1642. 

It is a sovereign state and counts nowadays more or less half a million inhabitants.

These are all well known facts but there is something peculiar that maybe not everyone knows.

Tasmanian government on its own created a project management framework named Tasmanian Government Project Management Framework, comprised of the Tasmanian Government Project Management Guidelines and many supporting resources. I have come to know this attending an amazing presentation given by Sean Whitaker at the last Project Management Institute Global Congress in Vancouver.

This framework has been realized to be a guideline for every Tasmanian government agency and it is freely consultable from here, the official Tasmanian government web site.

Resources that can be found are

• Mailing list. It was meant to be a way for sharing project management ideas between Tasmanian government employees. However to facilitate collaborations between public and private sectors subscription is not subjected to any restriction.
• Framework documentation and generic project management tips.
• Templates for generic project management activities related documents. 
• Checklists to assess project characteristics or the degree best practices are being implemented.

All materials is organized in sections

Getting started in project management
This section provides informations and resources on basic project management topics, to help everyone get started in basic project management activities.

Project life
This section provides informations and resources to help managing projects, organized in a kind of project life cycle. We can find here tutorials and templates to organize the project, create Gantt charts, create WBS, report the project status,...

Project management guidelines
This section describes how to manage a project following the Tasmanian government framework, identifing and explaining all the included key processes. This document is realeased under the creativecommons Attribution 3.0 Australia license.

Supporting resources
This section contains resources to help project managers to set up and manage projects like fact sheets, templates toolkits...

Project Management advisory committee
This section contains the meaning and the pourpose of the tasmanian government project management advisort committee (PMAC for short).

Further information

This section mainly contains examples and presentations.

As I said all the material is freely consultable from the internet and I have proposed it in this post as a source of information and for self-learning pourpose. If anyone is interested in downloading part of the material here presented and using it to manage his/her own project, I recommend to ask for permission following one of the many information links provided by the Tasmanian government on its official web site.

These resources could be very useful for someone who is taking his/her first steps in the project management world, as it essentially covers basic project management principles and activities.
Nonetheless I think that even an experienced project manager could get some benefit. 

Who knows where the next good idea or tip will come from ?

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