# simple project management documentation **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 1, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-project-management-documentation/498379 "2009-06-01T17:54:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![goBuffalo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@goBuffalo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goBuffalo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-project-management-documentation/498379/1 "2009-06-01T17:54:13Z")
Hi guys, I am starting out as a project manager for a local web developer and really would love to find some essential templates (excel, word, etc) that compliment project management software like basecamp. Something that gives a typical format for a project plan, project requirements, status of all projects, etc. I took a look on google and found it to be all over the place 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![goBuffalo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@goBuffalo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goBuffalo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-project-management-documentation/498379/2 "2009-06-01T20:32:39Z")
anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-project-management-documentation/498379/3 "2009-06-02T02:17:38Z")
I’m a little curious. In December you posted that you had been a [Junior Project Manager for nine months](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10597075#post10597075). So now it’s been over a year. Do you really not already have a bunch of Project Management templates? Or at least an old project file (preferably from a successful project) from which you can take the relevant documents and modify them for the current project?