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Project Monitoring and Control: Tools & Steps

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All are important, especially project monitoring. Project monitoring and control is how a project manager ensures the plan they’re implementing with the project team goes off without a hitch. Project controlling involves a lot of steps to thoroughly monitor the project schedule, resources and costs.

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Tracking Budget Variance in Project Management

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Negative Budget Variance: When the actual costs are higher than the budgeted amount, which means the project finances are underperforming and require further investigation to learn why. Using project management software can track budget variance. Project managers use budget variance analysis when managing projects.

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Power BI Gantt Chart: A How-to Guide With Pros, Cons & Alternatives

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Microsoft Power BI is a data analysis software that allows you to use various tools such as spreadsheets, pie charts, stacked bars and other types of diagrams to visualize project or business data, including the Power BI Gantt chart. But is Power BI good for project management? This will open Power BI’s library of visuals.

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How to Manage Project Cash Flow

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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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Notion Kanban Board: Key Features, Pros, Cons & Alternatives

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Choosing the best kanban software for your organization can be challenging due to the variety of options available, which offer different feature sets and price plans. One basic, simple-to-use kanban software that can help your team get started with the kanban methodology is Notion. Here are some of its main features.

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What Is Kanban? Meaning, Definitions & Best Practices

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Kanban also moved from physical kanban boards and cards to digital tools equipped with project planning, scheduling and tracking features like ProjectManager. ProjectManager is an award-winning project management software that offers kanban boards with robust features for managing tasks and workflows in any industry.

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Asana Gantt Chart: A How-to Guide With Pros, Cons & Alternatives

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Asana is project management software that offers a variety of easy-to-use tools like timelines, task lists and kanban boards which are mainly used for managing simple projects, everyday tasks and team workflows. Asana’s Gantt chart is a lightweight alternative to more complex Gantt chart software.