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Our Communications downloads include templates and guidelines in these categories: General Meetings and Communications Templates Status Reports and Review Meetings Plans and Miscellaneous Report Guidelines Phase Completion Reports Want to see samples? Solving Meeting Disruptions 44K MS-Word Communications Plan  55K MS-Word

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General Meetings and Communications Templates
		Brainstorming Meeting Techniques  40K MS-Word Need to generate some ideas quickly? Use these "how-to" guidelines for facilitating a Brainstorming Session. Covers several types of brainstorming sessions. Includes session kick-off and pitfalls to watch out for.
		Effective Meetings Checklist  72K MS-Word A comprehensive checklist for planning and running effective meetings. Includes planning tips, "DOs and DON'Ts", responsibilities, and more.
		Team Meeting Agenda  28K MS-Word Are your project meetings a little disorganized? This sample project team agenda can help, with emphasis on using objectives and timeslots to keep meetings effective.
		Meeting System IQ Test  32K PDF Need to improve the quality and effectiveness of some of your meetings? Use this Meeting IQ Test to determine areas of improvement.
		Solving Meeting Disruptions  44K MS-Word Are some of your meeting members socially clueless or negative? Meeting facilitators can use these suggestions to coach disruptive attendees on more effective participation.
		Agenda: Software Development Managers' Offsite Meeting  36K MS-Word Sample agenda and instructions for holding an offsite meeting of all the software development managers in an organization. Use this to work collaboratively at improving performance or preparing for departmental growth.
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Status Reports and Review Meetings
		Project Status Reports  56K MS-Word The team needs to know, you need to know, management needs to know: Where is this project, really? On time? On budget? Provides several formats and levels of detail for summarizing and communicating project status.
		Review Checklists: Detailed Design Review  28K MS-Word Checklist for performing those detailed review meetings for each system, module or product after the initial specifications are done.
		Review Checklists: Critical Design Review  32K MS-Word Checklist for those critical design meetings after the first prototype so everybody can poke it with a stick. Can be used for Systems signoff after last critical testing.
		Review Checklists: Final Design Review  28K MS-Word Checklist for the final design meetings after documents and designs are complete. Checks for internal and external requirements and certifications completed.
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Plans and Miscellaneous Report Guidelines
		Communications Plan  56K MS-Word A brief plan created by the project team, documenting how they will communicate important information - includes meetings, status reports, etc. The plan covers internal team communications and external stakeholder communications.
		New Project Proposal  44K MS-Word Use this template for creating and communicating a brief description of a new project or product idea as input to a project portfolio front-end "go/no go" decision process.
		New Product Business Plan  68K MS-Word A template for a Product/Project Business Plan that communicates info about a new project in a consistent and repeatable format for all products or projects.
		Action Item List Formats  12K MS-Word Use this table for recording action items in meetings and communicating throughout the course of a project.
		Project Manager Support Survey  40K MS-Word Get feedback using this short survey form for determining what training and support your Project Managers feel they, their team members, and related functional managers need to set their projects up for success.
		Lessons Learned Meeting Report  40K MS-Word Template outlines a process for holding a meeting to capture project wins, challenges, and resulting "lessons learned" and communicating these via a report.
		Lessons Learned Survey  40K MS-Word A survey that can be used by team members to communicate their feedback on how the project was conducted.
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Phase Completion Reports
		End of Concept Phase Checklist  40K MS-Word Complete this checklist of activities and deliverables accomplished during the Concept Phase and use it as the basis for your phase status report!
		End of Initiation Phase Checklist  48K MS-Word Complete this checklist of the Initiation Phase activities and deliverables and use the info for your phase status report!
		End of Execution Phase Checklist  44K MS-Word Submit the end of phase report with information from this checklist of activities and deliverables that should be completed by the end of the Execution Phase.
		End of Approval Phase Checklist  48K MS-Word Communicate project status by marking items off this checklist of activities and deliverables that should be completed by the end of the Approval Phase.
		End of Delivery Phase Checklist  40K MS-Word This Delivery Phase checklist, completed by end of the phase, can be used to communicate project status as you check items off the list.
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