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How to Prioritize Tasks With Personal Kanban Boards

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If this is your case, a personal kanban board could help you plan, schedule and track all these tasks so you can manage your workload without feeling overwhelmed. Kanban which means signboard or billboard in Japanese is a visual work management system that uses boards and cards to manage tasks, workflows and projects of any kind.

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12 Free Project Planning Templates for Excel and Word

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Without a plan, projects are in trouble. Project planning is one of the first and most important aspects of project management. Using project planning templates can help you schedule tasks, estimate budgets and allocate resources. Download one or all and get your next project started right.

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Organizational Resources Basics: Managing Company Resources

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Managing a program or portfolio of projects involves many things, but utmost importance should be given to resource management, especially organizational resources. Resource planning, resource allocation and resource utilization are all under the umbrella term of organizational resources. That is, money that keeps projects operating.

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A Quick Guide to Marketing Calendars (Template Included)

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Launching a marketing campaign is nothing other than a project. Like all projects, it involves planning activities which is a task accomplished with a marketing calendar. But marketing is a unique discipline and a marketing calendar isn’t exactly like a traditional project that’s organized on a Gantt chart.

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How to Control Schedule Conflict in Project Management

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The last thing a project manager wants is a schedule conflict. But a scheduling conflict is an eventuality in project management. While it’s the project manager’s job to ensure that the workflow is unobstructed, it’s also their responsibility to resolve scheduling conflicts when they arise—a problem that’s unavoidable.

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How to Manage Your Project Pipeline With Software

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Projects have a beginning, middle and end. That’s called the project life cycle. 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. What is a project pipeline?

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Asana vs. ClickUp: In-Depth Comparison

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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. That’s fair. What Is Asana?