PM in ten pages or less, my life reduced to ten pioints

I was just reading my newsletter from Project Connections

http://www.projectconnections.com/index.html

They have reduced my career to ten bullet points. (maybe I only deserved 2)

From the newsletter

PM IN 10 PAGES OR LESS

On a Clear Day Project scope definition shouldn't be hazy.

Who's On First? What are the roles and responsibilities of the team

Didn't You Get That Memo? Keep an action item list so you can follow up just to be sure the pesky mail dropper wasn't working. I usually look in my spam/junk email every few weeks to make sure I haven't lost anything but for a fast pace project that's too late.

Unless You've Got a Three-Sided Coin How do you make decisions, use some kind of decision matrix would be good.

Do You Feel Lucky? Continuous risk assessment is necessary.

Phenomenal Cosmic Powers, Itty Bitty Living Space! Project management tracking systems are all over the place.

Show Me the Money Project budgets are necessary for even the smallest projects to help in decision making and planning.

All Things Trite and Trivial - Keep and agenda.

Test Your Deliverable, Not Your Patience - Review the deliverables before delivering them. Sort of quality assurance for projects.

Current Action Items Project status reports.

PM Connections is a great source for serious professional project managers, along with their newsletter and blogs about PM they have over 200 templates for everything PM. There is a subscription fee but worth it. If its too pricey you can be a member and just get the newsletters.