Bob Hughes - Project Management for IT-Related Projects

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https://www.bcs.org/get-qualified/certifications-for-professionals/project-programme-management-and-consultancy-certifications/bcs-foundation-certificate-in-is-project-management/

BCS Professional certification: Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management

https://www.bcs.org/get-qualified/certifications-for-professionals/project-programme-management-and-consultancy-certifications/bcs-essentials-certificate-in-programme-and-project-support-office/

BCS Professional certification: Foundation Certificate: Programme and Project Support Office Essentials

https://bcs.org/upload/pdf/dippmsyll.pdf

BCS Higher Education Qualifications: Diploma in IT: IT Project Management Syllabus. An academic examination at university 2nd-year level, popular with overseas candidates

https://www.agilebusiness.org/

Agile Business Consortium. This group was formerly the DSDM Consortium. It developed the DSDM Agile project management framework (which was for a short time branded as Atern)

https://www.scrumalliance.org/

Scrum Alliance has a set of resources supporting the Scrum Agile framework

Some professional bodies APM and PMI have their own qualifications:

https://www.apm.org.uk/

Association for Project Management: the UK professional body for generic project management (rather than just IT)

https://www.pmi.org/

Project Management Institute: US-based professional body. A UK chapter of PMI exists https://pmi.org.uk/ and there is also a PMI-run magazine and community website for project managers at https://projectmanagement.com

https://www.ipma.world/

International Project Management Association: A global umbrella association to which most national project management professional bodies are affiliated

https://microsoft.com/project/en-us/project-management.aspx

Microsoft Project: probably the most widely used project planning tool

https://www.oracle.com/uk/industries/construction-engineering/primavera-products/

Oracle Primavera: another, perhaps more industrial, project planning tool (and much else)

https://trello.com

Trello: an excellent example of a modern software tool that supports collaborative working

https://asana.com/

Asana: another tool to support project planning and execution