Create Effective Project Management Invoice Templates for Higher Education

Project management invoice template for Higher Education

>>Hi, I'm Devin Deen, Content Director here at ProjectManager.com. [Music Intro] >>There are 51 project manager templates in the method 1, 2, 3, project management methodology covering initiation, planning, execution and closing. Now you can take those templates as is, or you can download them from the MPM framework, customize them and then share them out on your project web portal, sharepoint or even upload them into ProjectManager.com where your team is working. Here's my top ten. Business case. Always critical to get that business case template. Business case sets the priorities of the project. It really relays what the business benefit is going to be for the project and really gets that project team motivated, not just to deliver their task but also see the big picture, see that downstream affect and the business change that their project is going to implement. Good to have that business case template handy. The project plan takes the business benefits and the high ideas and the vision of that business case and puts it into a plan or an approach where you're actually going to execute on. That project plan is a very comprehensive document. It's got your project schedule, it's got your initial issues and risks ideas on dependencies, assumptions, the roles and responsibilities, but most importantly what's in scope what's out of scope, what your deliverables are. Look, it's a comprehensive document and definitely one that you've got to have. Next, issues register, risk register, change control form and your change register. These are vital during the execution phase of your project to make sure that you've got activity happening, you're proactively managing your project as evidenced by the items going in in each of those registers. These are four items that you actually have to have when you're working on your project. Your acceptance register, very important item. As your project completes their deliverables, good to have that acceptance register template handy. Modify it for your project and make sure that your stakeholders sign off incrementally as you deliver each of your deliverables. Don't wait til the end til the end of the project to get them to sign a big laundry list of deliverables, it's very difficult to get them to do that all at once, have them do it instead as a project delivers with each deliverable. Project status report, can't live without that. Got to have that status report during project execution. Just to make sure that at least on a weekly basis the project team and your stake holders are kept informed on what's happening with the project. Think of that project status report as your newsletter, right? It's your newspaper, it's communications, it's telling everyone what's going on, what's going on next week, what went on the week prior and what things may or may not be going well. Project closure report. How many of us have seen projects that go on and on and on and on, and never really end? Look, I bet those projects did not use the project closure report template. If they did it would really bring that project to an end. There's always going to be actions and some issues that need to be done at the back end of the project. But that project closure report actually helps you as a project manager close off the project, say goodbye to your suppliers, have a celebration and then take those actions and move them into business as usual operations for the team that's looking after the output of your project to maintain it and use on a day to day basis. Phase review form. Very important to use a phase review form during the project so that you can take learnings from the previous phase, input them into the current phase so that you're constantly improving your processes and the execution of your project. Look if we're stranded on a desert island together and find ourselves talking to a volleyball named Spaulding, you're certainly not going to be surprised when I whip out these top ten project management templates and together we use them to get off the island and back into civilization. For other project management tips and techniques and to try out our software come sign up at ProjectManager.com.