IT Management 101

Guides, templates and tools for IT professionals who get things done. Project management, free UK business templates, IBM i (AS/400) and Python.

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

A Gantt chart answers one question at a glance: what is happening when. Our free Excel template draws its own bars from the start and end dates you type, with a Word version and a filled UK small-business example. #ProjectManagement #Excel
https://t.co/N3mPz7XsGT

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

A deliverable nobody can accept or reject is where disputes start. Our free statement of work template: two Word versions (under an MSA, or standalone), acceptance criteria and a worked example. No email required. https://t.co/7OjsYUVimL #ProjectManagement #SmallBusiness

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

7 hours 45 minutes is not 7.45, and a 45-minute break is 0.75 of an hour. Our free Excel timesheet does the arithmetic: weekly and monthly tabs, billable and non-billable split, works in Google Sheets. No sign-up. https://t.co/q569OUOUyB #SmallBusiness #Excel

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

Senior management rarely reads a 30-page progress report. A Project on a Page puts the summary, RAG status, key risks, next milestones and a roll-up Gantt on one slide. Free PowerPoint template and worked example, no sign-up: https://t.co/4Kew8wu1i5 #ProjectManagement #PMO

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

A free printable Python cheat sheet: core Python and the GCSE Computer Science topics on one sheet, Python at work and pandas/NumPy on the other. Every snippet tested on Python 3.10 to 3.14. A4, folds to pocket size.
https://t.co/eXDQmro2BO
#Python #pandas

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

IBM i 7.4 left standard support on 30 September. Still on it, or on 7.3? Extended support costs a premium, and an upgrade plan should already be in flight. Our AS400 explainer covers the 2026 release picture and modernise vs migrate:
https://t.co/xB8QO13kkO
#IBMi #AS400

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

Free UK purchase order template in Word, Excel or Google Sheets, plus an online generator: VAT per line at 20, 5 or 0%, numbering that carries on from your last PO, PDF download. No sign-up; nothing leaves your browser.
https://t.co/XlOh1AFeZQ
#SmallBusiness #Procurement

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

A risk might happen; an issue already has. A RAID log keeps Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies in one place. Free UK template in Excel and Word, with a filled example. No email required. https://t.co/yRkGpPZDSL #ProjectManagement #SmallBusiness

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

A signed delivery note is not a goods received note. The GRN is your own count of what arrived: the middle leg of a three-way match, where PO, GRN and invoice must agree before you pay. Free Word template and Excel checker: https://t.co/B9Q97aSvCW #Procurement

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

TIM WOODS: the 8 wastes of lean, explained with office and IT examples.
Transport, Inventory, Motion, Waiting, Overproduction, Over-processing, Defects, Skills.
Plus a free Excel audit that puts a £ cost on each. https://t.co/fQq5LfW1wR #Lean #ContinuousImprovement

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

We have just published our updated IBMi / AS400 cheat sheet, useful to print and keep on your desk. See https://t.co/Hy0EfuW9wq

#ibmi #as400

[John Garrould @jgarrould]

@HiltonHotels I’ve been waiting to check in now for over 90 minutes at your Reading hotel.

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

@spenley Good luck and best wishes for the future.

Although I work in Tech I always learn something new watching Click, and Microlive etc before it.

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

Who remembers this? Before everyone had Internet access and the World Wide Web was established, this was how we found technical answers... https://t.co/bIY0Sf735D

#As400 #ComputerHistory #IBMi

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

I hope you are having a good weekend. If you could only keep one item of modern tech, invented in the last 100 years, what would it be?

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

@wronboy Yes

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

So how often should you send clients invoices? See https://t.co/SO8B4TBpId

#SmallBusiness #Management #Startup

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[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

Here's a trip down the AS/400 memory lane.
https://t.co/bIY0Sf735D
#ibmas400 #as400 #ibmi

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

So how often should you send clients invoices? See https://t.co/SO8B4TBpId

#SmallBusiness #Management #Startup

Please share

[IT Management 101 @ITMAN101]

Here's a trip down the AS/400 memory lane.
https://t.co/bIY0Sf735D
#ibmas400 #as400 #ibmi