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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Gantt charts are powerful planning tools in project management, but they’re also notoriously difficult to make. If you need more than a simple Gantt chart, try ProjectManager , an award-winning project and portfolio management software with powerful Gantt charts that do more without the difficulty of other digital Gantt charts.

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MARCH 7, 2024

It involves how the company will allocate its resources to support business activities that lead to achieving those long-term goals. Another reason to have an organizational strategy is that it provides a roadmap that can be shared across the company and illustrates how those long-term goals will be met.

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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. That’s why we’ve reviewed Trello’s kanban board and identified its key features, pros and cons to help you better understand how it compares to other kanban software. Does Trello Have a Kanban Board?

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JANUARY 16, 2024

When you’re a project management office (PMO) or program or portfolio manager, you’re going to have to deal with multiple projects in various stages of the project pipeline. We’ll get to that in a moment as well as define project pipeline management. ProjectManager’s roadmaps help you manage your project pipeline.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Tactical planning tells you how to get there. It’s about execution and, therefore, critical to achieving your strategic goals. This concept is an important part of project portfolio management (PPM) and project management offices (PMOs). This can apply to a business or a project team. What Is Tactical Planning?

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MARCH 6, 2024

While Tableau doesn’t have project management features, you can still use it to make a Gantt chart. In this blog, we’ll learn how to make a Gantt chart in Tableau and explore its key features and limitations. If you need a Gantt chart that allows you to do that and much more, you should try ProjectManager.

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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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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Power BI can help you better analyze the data your business or project generates so you can make better decisions. But is Power BI good for project management? To answer that, let’s first review the Power BI Gantt chart, which is one of its key project management features. Does Power BI Have a Gantt Chart?

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APRIL 23, 2024

This is called operational project management. To better understand operational project management requires defining what an operational project is, how it differs from strategic projects and what operational project management is. What Is an Operational Project?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Asana vs. Monday is a matchup made for project management professionals. Asana vs. Monday are both similar project management tools. They have features, such as project tracking, workflow automation and other standard project management software features. Not convinced that ProjectManager is a superior project management tool?

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MARCH 20, 2024

Get the most out of a preconstruction meeting by knowing who must attend and the items to cover in your preconstruction agenda. To help you once you break ground on your construction project, we’ll throw in some free construction project management templates on estimating, scheduling and budgeting.

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MARCH 27, 2024

After the war, the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota looked at how supermarkets stocked only what they expected to sell at a given time. Kanban in manufacturing and production has many uses, which we detail below, as well as how it relates to lean and just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing. What Is Kanban?

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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? Warehouse management is the process by which the day-to-day operations of a warehouse are run.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

You’ll need to create a work schedule if you’re managing a project or business. In its most basic sense, a schedule allows you to allocate work to your employees and let them know when they’re needed. Templates are only going to get you so far when it comes to managing your work schedule. Who has time for that?

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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. What Is Enterprise Project Management?

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Asana is a likely matchup for anyone looking for the right project management software. They’re both well-known and popular project management tools. Asana, on the other hand, is a simple-to-use work management tool. The Gantt chart organizes tasks and shows your project on a visual timeline, but that’s only the start.

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MARCH 8, 2024

But how do they know what to work on? We’ll also note the difference between an RFI in construction and other construction project management documents before going into the construction RFI process, the different types of RFIs and more. An army of subcontractors each with their own specific discipline complete construction projects.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

If you’re researching which project management software to use, you’ve probably already compared Asana vs. ClickUp. However, as project management tools, they both fall short. Asana’s timeline is no substitute for a Gantt chart and ClickUp is more focused on productivity than project management. What Is Asana?

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JANUARY 25, 2024

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. We’ll look at project cash flow, what it is and how to calculate and manage it. Cash flows are used in business and project management to report income and expenses.

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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. Why Make a Kanban Board in Google Sheets?

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MARCH 14, 2024

Project strategy is the plan that defines a project, which is why project management strategy is so important. To better manage projects, one must clearly understand project strategy, who’s responsible for it in the organization and the steps to create a project strategy. What Is Project Strategy?

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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. Those results are your outcome, which produces deliverables.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

It can be used to communicate what’s needed in the project, the costs associated with the activities and the management of payments. But what is a schedule of values and why is it such an essential construction project management document? ProjectManager’s Gantt charts manage your human and nonhuman resources.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing resources effectively is one way to deliver your projects on time and within budget. Project managers use a technique called resource smoothing. We’ll get to that in a moment and show how it differs from resource leveling as well as when to use it. Project management software helps with resource management.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Microsoft Project Gantt chart is typically seen as the centerpiece of that project management software. Let’s look at Microsoft Project’s Gantt chart and see what is worthwhile and what is lacking in the essential project management tool. The Microsoft Project Gantt chart allows you to visually plan your project.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The strategy map is part of the larger balanced scorecard methodology and is used as a way to quickly and effectively communicate strategic objectives and how they will create value for the organization. This is especially helpful for the visual learners in your organization. What Is a Strategy Map? Learn more.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

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. A construction superintendent is a professional who helps to manage projects and makes sure that they’re running as planned.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Gantt charts have been a fundamental project management tool for over a century, and it’s easy to understand why. We’ll show you how to make a Gantt chart in ProjectManager and why construction Gantt charts help deliver projects on time and within budget. Construction Gantt charts are versatile project management tools.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

The construction phase plan is a critical construction project management document that helps to ensure a safe project. Before explaining how to make a construction phase plan, let’s first define the term and note some of the many reasons why one should use it. You can also filter for the critical path to identify the essential tasks.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

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. A balanced scorecard is a strategic management performance metric. What Is a Balanced Scorecard?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Project planning is one of the first and most important aspects of project management. Project management software does more than a static Excel or Word template, but using these free 12 project planning templates for Excel and Word is a decent substitute. Download one or all and get your next project started right.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Gantt chart has become a staple of project management. Henry Gantt was an American who worked as a mechanical engineer and management consultant. He’s best remembered for the tool that bears his name and his works in the development of what’s called scientific management. Who Was Henry Gantt?

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

One of the tasks of the general contractor is to track those work hours to manage labor costs and keep everyone paid. Following that, we’ll go step-by-step on how to make a construction timesheet and provide you with a free template to download to help you get started with your construction timesheets.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

To understand what project health is let’s define it and the areas that should be monitored to make sure your project is healthy. Just as a doctor takes a person’s temperature or blood pressure, project managers need to check on their project’s health. Project management software acts as the thermometer for the project.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

If you’re managing a project or organization, you’ll need resources such as people, materials and equipment for executing tasks and completing your goals. This might cause you to go over your project budget or affect the profitability of your business, especially in labor-intensive industries such as construction or manufacturing.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

Managing a project requires more than planning and budgeting, it also requires scheduling. While deliverables are due at specific points on your project timeline, getting those deliverables completed on time requires scheduling your human resources with a resource calendar. What Is a Resource Calendar? Learn more.

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