ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Gantt charts in construction can be used for any number of different activities. 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. Gantt charts have been a fundamental project management tool for over a century, and it’s easy to understand why.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It’s the longest sequence of tasks that must be completed to deliver the project, and these tasks are referred to as critical activities. Learn how to make one, leverage some free templates to help and find out how CPM software facilitates the process. Project managers know the critical path. What Is a CPM Schedule?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 24, 2022

In this blog, we’re discussing the process once you have an idea for the product you’re going to manufacture. This means you need to outline the activities, deliverables and resources necessary to execute these tasks while meeting your deadline and budget. The manufacturing cycle is an essential part of all types of manufacturing.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 27, 2022

To better understand that relationship, let’s first define both, explore how they differ and see the ways they work together when managing a project. Project managers use PERT as a tool to help them determine how much time it’ll take to complete a project. What Is PERT? PERT works on a PERT chart, which maps three-time estimates.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 14, 2021

This is the first step towards building a viable project schedule is organizing activities. This is a tool for visualizing activities over the course of the entire project. Let’s take a look at the former, also called activity on node or activity on arrow. One way to do it is by using a network diagram.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2023

Along the way, we’ll explain why lean construction can benefit your project and how the right project management software can help you take advantage of lean construction. Lean construction considers the whole life cycle of the project when determining what to build and how to build it. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Arrow Diagramming Method A network diagramming technique that represents the start and end of activities with arrows to help with scheduling in the project planning phase. Devin Deen explains how to use Activity on the Arrow diagramming to chart the critical path in this video. It is also called a Business Case.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2021

Fortunately, there are tools and techniques to help organize activities and get them all done on time. Let’s take a close look at this technique and how it assists project managers when scheduling their projects. Both diagrams use boxes or nodes representing project activities. Learn more. Partial Precedence Diagrams.

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Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

When we did our roundup of the 50 best Project Management Blogs in 2017 it quickly became one of our most popular posts. So, here then is our list of the 52 best Project Management Blogs for 2019. How do People Consume Project Management Blogs? It seems to me that the blogs that thrive will offer something specific.

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Scrum.org

MAY 16, 2022

. The fifth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach , by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. In this blog, we build on that discussion and consider how to launch the product group into its first iteration successfully. . Product Group Launch Activities.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 17, 2022

The triple constraint of project management has been given many names – the Project Management Triangle, Iron Triangle, and Project Triangle – which should give you an idea of how important the Triple Constraint is when managing a project. We’ll explain how these trade-offs work in the section below. So, what is the Triple Constraint?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 29, 2023

Then we’ll explain what to consider in production scheduling and explain how the process can benefit your projects. That means understanding how long production will take and the timeline to transport finished goods to distributors. If you don’t have a plan, you’ll never get your goods to market on time.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 24, 2020

Float is a key piece of the critical path method (CPM) , a system used by project managers to efficiently schedule project activities. The critical path is a sequence of dependent tasks that determines the duration of a project. Tasks on the critical path will have a float of zero, meaning there are no delays in the sequence.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

A work package is a sequence of activities that leads to a deliverable when using a work breakdown structure (WBS). A work package is a sequence of activities that leads to a deliverable when using a work breakdown structure (WBS). There’s a difference, however, between a work package and an activity in a project.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 21, 2022

We’ll also show you how one works and even provide you with an example to see a production flow chart in action. A production flow chart sets up the sequence of the production of a product. A production flow chart sets up the sequence of the production of a product. How Does a Production Flow Chart Work? Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

A flow chart displays graphically the project’s objective and seeks to more logically order the activities therein. A flow chart displays graphically the project’s objective and seeks to more logically order the activities therein. The diagram shows the interdependent and parallel processes over the course of the project’s life cycle.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The schedule baseline is made up of project activities and the cost baseline is the budget allocated to those activities. The baseline then reflects where you should be at any point in the project while your actual performance shows how far you progressed. Projects are planned and then life happens.

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Inloox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This is why we want to briefly summarize the basic concept as well as the most relevant terms that are relevant for the initial understanding of the method in this blog post. The SAFe method is based on the Lean philosophy and offers a fixed framework in which Scrum and other agile management methods can be scaled to the entire company.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2022

And please don’t believe for even a single minute that this is how products get made. And, imagine how difficult and expensive it was to change that software or hardware late in development. Somebody made it up out of thin air many years ago and the idea was cemented deep into corporate bureaucracy. A Little History. More planning ??

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Inloox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This is why we want to briefly summarize the basic concept as well as the most relevant terms that are relevant for the initial understanding of the method in this blog post. The SAFe method is based on the Lean philosophy and offers a fixed framework in which Scrum and other agile management methods can be scaled to the entire company.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2022

Let’s explore how software development estimation works and its techniques and tools. How to Estimate Cost and Effort in a Software Development Project. Now that we understand what a software development estimate is, how do we estimate costs and effort in software development projects? Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Fast-tracking in project management is a way to manage time, schedule and activities. Read on to learn exactly what it means to fast-track a project and how it differs from other techniques in dealing with the project scope. Fast-tracking in project management involves executing activities at the same time rather than sequentially.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2019

It’s important to have an overview of any project, see when it starts and finishes, and quickly note all the points in-between that intersect and how they work together. It’s important to have an overview of any project, see when it starts and finishes, and quickly note all the points in-between that intersect and how they work together.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The idea of just jumping in and learning how to swim is how projects drown in lost time and costs. But the common thread tying this diverse discipline together are the techniques that project managers use to get the job done. Project management techniques make managing projects easier and more effective. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 5, 2021

Schedule control is used in project management to monitor your activities and tasks to ensure you’re proceeding as planned. A baseline represents how you expect the project to proceed. It keeps them informed of changes and how they will impact the project. What Is Schedule Control? Try It Free!

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

While project managers haven’t figured out how to bend time and space to their bidding, there are time management techniques that you can use to manage the time you spend on tasks. There are six steps when managing project time: Define Activities: Define all the tasks necessary to produce the project’s final deliverable.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

What do you need to know to succeed at project management? Everything! While there’s some truth to that joke, it’s not helpful to the student or the experienced professional who is looking for a way to understand the myriad responsibilities of being a project manager. What is PMBOK in Project Management? Also, any change control will be carried out.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

There are many techniques project managers use to schedule their project activities so that everything lands where it’s supposed to and the project fits the approved timeline. It’s a sequence of stages where you figure out what the least amount of time is necessary to complete a task with the least amount of slack.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 13, 2022

But you don’t want to initiate a loss leader. That’s where project selection comes in. Project selection is all about picking the right project at the right time for your organization. It sounds like it’d be simple, but there are a lot of factors to consider. What is Project Selection? It connects teams no matter where or what they do.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 18, 2022

Any business with transactions, work processes, accounting and trades can benefit from knowing what an audit trail is, the different types of audit trails and how to do one. Despite being used in different industries, all audit logs share the same purpose: to track a sequence of events or actions in chronological order. Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 11, 2023

Some of the activities that are regulated in production control include labor, the availability of materials and any restrictions on capacity and cost. Planning and scheduling production is just the starting point in manufacturing. Production control is the way that managers keep track of the work being done in the manufacturing facility.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 1, 2021

Every project is made up of tasks, and the sequence of those tasks are often of the upmost importance. This horizontal bar chart is the easiest way to see how projects are scheduled over time. This includes which tasks must be completed, how long those tasks should take, who is responsible for which tasks, etc. Try It Free!

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The planning process is when stakeholders and the project team learn how to achieve the final deliverable of the project or service. The planning process is when stakeholders and the project team learn how to achieve the final deliverable of the project or service. What Are the 5 PMBOK Project Management Process Groups? Planning Phase.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2019

He literally wrote the book about it, It’s All in How You Slice It , which came out in 2005. These are called epics, themes or activities, meaning large collections of user stories. Related: How to Plan a Successful Product Launch. How to Develop a User Story Map. What does that all mean? It sounds nice enough.

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Inloox

AUGUST 7, 2019

Sprint Planning with InLoox Part 1 How do you plan your sprints ? In the second part of our series , you will learn how to roughly plan sprints using the Gantt chart. Activity = Sprint. Define the duration of the sprint by double-clicking on the activity and entering the corresponding duration, e.g. 10 days, in the side panel.

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iZenBridge

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This flexibility can be at the project level or the activity level. In this blog, I am drilling this down so that all the confusions go off. Predecessor – An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule. Predecessor – An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 29, 2024

Duration: How long will each task take? Whether you’re a project management pro or just starting, getting your schedule right is key to success. In this article, you’ll discover: Essential elements of a great project schedule. A simple step-by-step method to build your own. Tips to dodge common scheduling mistakes.

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