Free Customizable Forms - Calendars - Graphics

https://www.worksheetworks.com/miscellanea.html

Open Source Project Collaboration Tools

These are open source collaboration tools -  links are from 2016

https://opensource.com/business/16/3/top-project-management-tools-2016

How does these compare with basecamp.com and freedcamp.com ?

Using Trello and Alternatives

TRELLO
Trello Started as an Internal Board for a software company and was spun off on its own.

Polis Center uses it but was not sure that it would last free as it was due to be bought  in early 2017.

Infographic of short cuts for Trello use.

ALTERNATIVES
Here are some open source alternatives to Trello or longer discussion on quora and perhaps a more neutral evaluation.

Open Access Book - Principles of Management

This management book is coming from three academics put together by the University of Minnesota who sort of say they want to remain anonymous but the information given is enough to pin them down. It seems up to date and gives an overview of strategic planning in chapter 6.  We can download the pdf and keep on our internal page.

The book seems to lead towards the balanced score card methodology. Are the authours benefitting in some way? Anyway the book is a good resource.

There are other  organization and management oriented textbooks there that could be useful on writing, IT, HRM, project management, sociology, strategic management as well.

Objectives and Key Results - OKR - Organizational Methods

There seem to be some convergence around strategic management, performance measurement and organizational engagement. One of the measures that is sold as what was developed at Intel and is used by Google in OKR - Objectives and Key Results. Seems this is used in Silicon Valley widely.  Two websites that help understand this are beterworks.com and in relation to okr which seems to steer us to future payments and weekdone.com which may have offline free templates such as in excel or google docs to monitor progress.

The difference between WIGs, Balanced Scorecard and OKR seems to lie in the number of Goals/Objectives and Number of Target Measures. We shall have to develop what works for us.

Work Planning Calendars and Much Work Sheets

Someone who advises on personal productivity recommended worksheetworks.com to me as a simple way to have planning calendars. This seems a non-profit type site with no ads, so it suits us.  There are monthly, weekly, daily calendars to put down your tasks.

Looking into the site, there is more you can do such as customizing maps in b&w and colour, charts, and graphics.

Purpose of the Blog

This is a place to share IT, administration, management and organizational information and thoughts that we can share. It shall be kept private to FECT staff and selected advisers for now.