FREE IT TEMPLATES

AND OTHER RESOURCES

Feel free to take advantage of these free IT templates and other resources we’ve made to help you better understand Product Lifecycle Management. All of these resources are in English since that’s the language we use most with our European clients. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us!

What are APIs and how do they work?

Order dinner from your tablet. Track your activity on your smartphone. Book a seat at the movies tonight with an app. APIs make this possible, and they’re behind much of what we do online. They connect businesses, applications, data and devices so you can order pizza for dinner, listen to your favorite music while exercising or buy movie tickets in just a few clicks. Want to know more about APIs and how they work? Download this infographic to ave a short overview to get you started!

PLM Internal Marketing Blueprint

PLM Benchmark Checklist

We’ve prepared a practical checklist for you to remember what it takes to organize a PLM benchmark study. In it, you’ll find the steps you should follow every time you organize a benchmarking project. Print out this handy checklist and get down to business!

Who does what in Agile?

The 3 essential roles in Scrum are the Product Owner, the Scrum Master and the Scrum Team. Don’t forget who does what in an agile project with this cheatsheet!

Learn Agile Cheatsheet

Agile is a big change from the way people traditionally work. The good news is that your team will get better over time as they get to know each other better, create trust and practice the framework. Don’t be frustrated if your first projects don’t deliver the promised end goals. It takes a while to get agile to work. This cheatsheet contains a list of 10 powerful tools and resources to learn more about agile. It’s a compendium of useful tips for you to continue your journey to agile project management!

Infographic: Agile Methodology Cheatsheet

Agile is a project management methodology. It focuses on continuous improvement, scope flexibility and quality product delivery. Agile is used as a framework to develop products and PLM software. Use this infographic as a cheatsheet to remember the basics. Interested in learning more? Take our FREE Agile Methodology eCourse and get to know the basics of agile project management! This infographic contains the following key features:

Essential roles in Agile
Basic principles of Agile Methodology
Sprint planning and sprint cycle

Learn PLM Cheatsheet

This cheatsheet contains some key resources for you to learn PLM. It’s an infographic listing relevant information and resources to walk you through the first steps to learning PLM. This infographic contains the following key features:

5 essential skills to master PLM
5 essential books about PLM
5 Must-Read Books to keep you in the know

PLM Foundations training program

Learn What It Takes to Become a PLM Professional This is a focused course designed to rapidly get you up to speed on Product Lifecycle Management. It teaches you all the foundational skills you need to start a career in PLM. Over 6 weeks, we will cover the foundations of PLM through 6 modules. The content of each module is delivered as a master class, along with worksheets and actionable templates to help you bring the theory into practice. Each week, we’ll release the master class related to the module, and provide you with access to the other materials.

PLM Product Roadmap Template

This template is a beautiful business roadmap. Use it to showcase the key planning phases of your product lifecycle management development project. Build your roadmap of key project milestones, dates and major themes.

Infographic: Making Sense of your Product Data

Data is everywhere, and the things you can do with it are amazing. You can reinvent
your business, improve efficiency and help your employees excel in their jobs.
Understand the key product data types and follow these key, actionable steps to make sense of your product data.

Infographic: Manage Your PLM Program Effectively in 12 Steps

PLM is neither easy nor straightforward. It involves defining and communicating
complex concepts, running cross-functional projects, managing organisational change – and, at the end of the day, changing the way people work. Traditional project management approaches often fall short and don’t adapt well to the complexity and duration of large PLM initiatives. Typically, they combine several parallel complex projects, which can present challenges to coordination and overall success. It’s not easy to orchestrate several large and interconnected initiatives. It’s equally tough to get people from many different parts of a company to work together and to share a vision.

But good program management definitely is a great place to start. With that in mind, here are 12 steps you can follow to manage your PLM Program effectively.

Timeline Template

Create beautiful roadmaps, build accurate Gantt Charts and define the next steps of your PLM projects. Keep projects on track, visualise milestones and plan your program with our customizable templates.

Requirements Management Template

This template helps you to manage requirements of your PLM projects. You can track requirements, follow up on a requirement’s lifecycle, monitor and document decisions.

PLM Mini Program Charter Template

A program charter is a key document that defines the fundamental information about a program and is used to authorize it. It provides an overview of where the program is going and why, while pointing out the scope and main deliverables. This IT template will help you easily create a program charter summary. This way you can find all the info in one convenient place: a fully customizable excel template and a guide to fill it in, all in one source. Enjoy!

Stakeholder Identification Template

Early identification and communication with Stakeholders is imperative to ensure your PLM program’s success. This fully customizable “Stakeholder Identification” excel template can be used to identify and classify the program stakeholders. Based on stakeholders’ power and influence, you will be able to plan the program properly, define the communication strategy and gain support.

Agenda Templates

A good PLM agenda can help your team get and stay focused in meetings. This fully customizable PowerPoint Template is a great tool to put together your agenda and set a timeline for your PLM workshops and meetings. With its clean and elegant design, you will quickly create agendas for your meetings and workshops.

Simple Gantt PLM Project

This IT template helps you to define your PLM project milestones, to track progress and to manage task completion. You can define when milestones start and when tasks are due. It’s a very good way to plan releases, keep the team in line with the plan and follow up on deadlines.

Ingredients for a Successful PLM Initiative

What are the ingredients that make a PLM initiative work? In this infographic you will find the key requirements , foundation, and business benefits for a successful PLM transformation.

The program business case

Job application templates

Beautifully designed, easy-to-edit template package for the job applicant who wants to leave a memorable impression. This functional template bundle will help you quickly craft a powerful job application. Fully customisable in Microsoft Word!