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APRIL 9, 2024

A kanban board is a project management tool that manages workflows and processes using two key elements: kanban cards, which represent tasks, and kanban columns which divide the kanban board vertically to represent steps or stages of completion for them. For advanced kanban software features, use ProjectManager instead.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Notion is work management software that helps teams from across industries such as product development, engineering or marketing to facilitate team communication, manage tasks and create simple project timelines. While Notion has project management features, is there a Notion Gantt chart?

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APRIL 4, 2024

Choosing the best kanban software for your team might be overwhelming, especially if you’re not sure of what features to look for. Yes, Trello is software by Atlassian that offers five project management tools: kanban boards, project timelines, calendars, dashboards and tables. Does Trello Have a Kanban Board?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Gantt charts are powerful planning tools in project management, but they’re also notoriously difficult to make. There is, however, a simple Gantt chart that can be made in a variety of ways that can be essential when scheduling a project. What Is a Simple Gantt Chart?

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APRIL 5, 2024

Read about the benefits of an effective maintenance schedule and see how a maintenance plan can help a diverse group of industries. What Is a Maintenance Schedule? Having a well-structured maintenance schedule reduces unscheduled downtime through the proactive planning and allocation of resources for maintenance tasks.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing resources effectively is one way to deliver your projects on time and within budget. But what do you do when you don’t have enough resources and the deadline is quickly beating down on you? Project managers use a technique called resource smoothing. What is resource smoothing?

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Creating a schedule of values is important for the project owner, contractor and subcontractors alike. It can be used to communicate what’s needed in the project, the costs associated with the activities and the management of payments. What Is a Schedule of Values?

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APRIL 19, 2024

Kanban and scrum are agile project management methodologies that can be used for similar purposes, but each has its unique pros and cons. As a project manager, it’s important to understand the difference between kanban and scrum so you can determine the best approach for your team. What Is Kanban?

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Coming up with long-term goals for a business or organization is just the beginning of a five-year project. Making sure your daily operations are working towards achieving those strategic goals and that they’re clearly communicated throughout the business or organization greatly improves by using a balanced scorecard.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

This concept is an important part of project portfolio management (PPM) and project management offices (PMOs). This concept is an important part of project portfolio management (PPM) and project management offices (PMOs). What Is Tactical Planning?

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MAY 1, 2024

Warehouse management ensures that stock matches customer demand. To understand effective warehouse operations, you must first be clear on the warehouse operations process and how it plays into the larger warehouse operations management. What Are Warehouse Operations? Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Managing more than one project at a time creates a lot of problems. How can you allocate resources wisely across all those projects? How can you keep the projects aligned with the strategic goals of the organization? That and more is what enterprise project management does.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

You’ll need to create a work schedule if you’re managing a project or business. But schedules can be used for other purposes, such as measuring the total hours your employees work each week for payroll processing or as a workload analysis tool. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts help you schedule work better than Google Sheets.

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MARCH 27, 2024

Kanban in manufacturing originated in World War II where it was used in the manufacturing of Spitfires for the Royal Air Force in the UK. After the war, the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota looked at how supermarkets stocked only what they expected to sell at a given time. What Is Kanban? Then it was known as the two-bin system.

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APRIL 24, 2024

While order processing seems to work fast and without issue, a lot is going on in the background to ensure the seamless management of placement, picking, sorting, packing and shipping. What Is Order Processing? Project management software can make order processing more efficient and achieve those advantages.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

If human resources are your most valuable resource, you better give them the attention they need to get their work done. One way to make sure you’re supporting your team and project alike is with workforce planning. Finally, we’ll see how project management software allows you to better manage your workforce.

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MARCH 7, 2024

What Is Organizational Strategy? It involves how the company will allocate its resources to support business activities that lead to achieving those long-term goals. It’s not only communicative but helps management develop strategic plans so the company can accomplish its goals. Organizational strategy has many layers.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

There’s a lot of money involved in these capital projects and that means getting the funding and allocating the finances wisely. Let’s take a look at capital projects, explore the idea of a capital asset and delve into the process of capital planning. What Is a Capital Project? What Is a Capital Project?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A project timeline is a visual representation of the tasks that make up the project, showing the sequence of events and key dates. Let’s be clear: I’m not talking about a detailed project Gantt chart, PERT chart or a flow chart. What do you need to create a project timeline?

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MARCH 22, 2024

Construction projects are often long and complicated endeavors. What’s included in the contractor payment schedule and the different types are a critical part of the professional relationship between the project owner and the general contractor. What Is a Contractor Payment Schedule? They’re also expensive.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Asana is a popular work management software that helps teams collaborate on tasks and projects. Microsoft Project is a popular project management software that has the tools that project managers need to manage teams and projects. Learn more What Is Asana? What Is Asana Used For?

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Then, subcontractors build it and vendors are responsible for the resources. Whether you’re looking to hire a construction superintendent or want to land that job yourself, you’re going to have to consider what you need or how to frame a resume to show you’re the one for the position. What Is a Construction Superintendent?

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APRIL 11, 2024

The better the warehouse management, the greater the company’s success. After defining warehouse management and its importance, we’ll focus on its key areas and what the operation life cycle looks like. What Is Warehouse Management? ProjectManager’s Gantt charts help plan warehouse operations.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To communicate this, organizations will usually employ what is called a strategy map. If you’re unfamiliar with a strategic map, we’ll explain what it is and what is included in one. If you’re unfamiliar with a strategic map, we’ll explain what it is and what is included in one. What Is a Strategy Map?

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MARCH 20, 2024

Construction projects are structured with schedules, budgets and resource allocation. Many people work on them, from general contractors overseeing subcontractors to architects and, of course, the project owner. What Is a Preconstruction Meeting? ProjectManager has workload charts to keep teams productive.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Manufacturers have to do more than produce a product, they also have to manage their operations. That’s why manufacturing operations management is so important—it keeps the lights on. Of course, there’s more to manufacturing operations management than that. What Is Manufacturing Operations Management?

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Construction sites are busy with subcontractors and other crews working on various smaller projects that will lead to the final build. One of the tasks of the general contractor is to track those work hours to manage labor costs and keep everyone paid. But do you know what a construction timesheet is and why it’s important?

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MARCH 8, 2024

An army of subcontractors each with their own specific discipline complete construction projects. But how do they know what to work on? This construction document helps subcontractors understand what they need to do if they have any questions. What Is an RFI in Construction? Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Certain manufacturers use a recipe to combine materials to deliver products. We’ll then outline the top benefits and provide a few examples across industries to make process manufacturing clear. Of course, there are other methods of production that manufacturers use, and we’ll touch on those as well.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

Then we’ll show you how to make a budget using both so you can make an informed decision. What Is Bottom-Up Budgeting? Bottom-up budgeting is, as its name suggests, budgeting that starts from the departments in an organization and then moves up to senior management. What Is Top-Down Budgeting?

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MARCH 19, 2024

Projects need resources, often consistently. Suppliers and contractors deliver those products and services that help fulfill the project. Managers want to stay on budget and resources cost money, which is why they use a request for quote (RFQ) to get pricing from suppliers and contractors.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Most project managers can’t imagine running a project without Gantt charts. This tool has been in the project management toolbox for so long that it predates computers. We’re looking at the best Gantt chart software out there so you can make an informed decision when in the market to purchase one.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Projects cost money. Those funds have a life cycle of their own and project managers must understand how those costs come in and out of the project and organization. That process is called project cash flow. We’ll look at project cash flow, what it is and how to calculate and manage it.

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MARCH 31, 2023

Welcome to project management 101. Project management can seem like a daunting discipline, but once you get a grasp of the fundamentals and combine that with some intuition, you’ll be on your way to leading successful projects, no matter your situation. What Is a Project?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

What we might take for granted actually involves a great deal of work and investment. IT financial management (ITFM) covers the costs of keeping our network, servers and devices running. IT financial management is a bit more complicated than that and we’ll explain by more thoroughly defining the term.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Businesses aren’t projects but they share many commonalities. While businesses run projects, they also have strategies and objectives that must be met. All of these things and more make them a perfect candidate for business project management. Let’s first explore the definition of business project management.

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JUNE 13, 2023

Planning is the bedrock of project management. One of the most basic yet critical tools for doing this is the Gantt chart. Many use Microsoft products to organize and manage their work. But does Microsoft Planner have a Gantt chart? What Is Microsoft Planner?

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