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Project management is the application of knowledge, tools and techniques to plan the activities that are needed for the project managers to ensure that each project reaches the defined level of success. In the project management area, products are expected to be delivered fast, with small increments between deliveries. In the current market, there are already countless tools that help serve this purpose, however most are still developed with a standalone approach and miss key features, such as the Work Breakdown Structure and Responsibility Assignment Matrix. Within the ITLingo initiative, the Project Specification Language was developed to work as middle ground tool, where users can transfer project plan specifications between the Project Specification Language and other tools. This language has an Excel Template that was built to implement these transfers, and with this work we developed a new version of this template, called PSL Excel Template v.2019 .  \nKeywords: Project Management, ITLingo, PSL, Excel Template, PM Tools  \n1 Introduction  \nA project is a temporary and unique mean used by organizations to achieve a particular aim, temporary because it has a clear beginning and end, even if the resulting product may be permanent, and also unique since the service or product that stems from a project is always different from any other. Project management (PM) is the area that manages the resources to ensure that the project is successful, by meeting its requirements. According to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), the processes used to accomplish the task are divided into five groups, initiating, planning, controlling, execution and closing [1] .  \nTo help teams successfully create project plans, there are a number of pm tools available in the market, such as Azure DevOps and Microsoft Project, and to compete with these tools the Project Specification Language (PSL) was created.  \nPSL [2] is a language developed in the ITLingo initiative [3], and it aims to be a middle ground transfer tool, unlike the more popular pm tools, which adapt a standalone posture. The goal of this project is to understand the strong points and weaknesses of the most used tools that are used for the same purpose, in order to improve our own.  \nCurrently PSL is being supported by an Excel template to test the importation and exportation with Microsoft Excel [5] . This template is the focus of our work, and to improve it we will also be looking into other Excel templates in the pm area distributed online, such as Vertex42s and Office timeline.  \nSo, we propose to develop thePSL Excel Template v.2019, ontop of the old version, v.2018, developing new features, while reorganizing the old ones, in order to improve user experience and make the template competitive with similar ones available on the market.  \n2 Background  \nProject management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements [1] . In order to achieve this five groups of processes and nine knowledge  \nareas are defined in PMBOK. The process groups are initiating, planning, executing, controlling/monitoring and closing. The knowledge areas are integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk and procurement.  \nMost of the processes within Project management are iterative in its nature. To cope with its iterative nature, Agile project management was introduced. Agile project management is an iterative approach, which means the project is completed in small iterations, allowing for continuous delivery and incorporating customer feedback with each iteration. The most popular agile development methods are Scrum and Kanban.  \nScrum is a framework for Agile project ","cbCaidZaF2uk1aAe","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidZaF2uk1aAe","pdf",224476,"English","# Introduction\n## Background\n## PSL Language\n## Used Tools","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the ITLingo Project Specification Language (PSL) address?\",\"answer\":\"PSL was created as a middle-ground transfer tool that helps move project-plan specifications between PSL and other tools, instead of relying on standalone tool approaches.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is the Excel template important in this work?\",\"answer\":\"The project uses an Excel Template to implement importation and exportation workflows with Microsoft Excel, and introduces a new template version called PSL Excel Template v.2019.\"},{\"question\":\"What is PSL’s role in preventing issues in project plans?\",\"answer\":\"The PSL language works both as a way to build project plans descriptively and as a method to prevent inconsistencies within those plans through its structured specification approach.\"}]","Exploring Project Management Tools based on the ITLingo PSL | PDF",1789147932]