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MARCH 14, 2024

Every project is different. 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.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Project meetings often feel as if they’re in the way of your work. But meetings are critical for project planning and team collaboration. That’s why there are so many project meetings and each has its own focus and importance. What Are Project Meetings? Types of Project Meetings.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Construction projects come big and complex as well as small and simple, but one thing they all share is a construction phase plan. The construction phase plan is a critical construction project management document that helps to ensure a safe project. What Is a Construction Phase Plan?

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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. They provide a visual overview of project tasks and the timeframe in which they need to be completed. Gantt charts in construction can be used for any number of different activities.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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? Does Power BI Have a Gantt Chart?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Many project management tools can help you plan, manage and track your projects. If we compare Gantt charts vs. kanban boards we’ll find both are valuable to your project in different ways. Gantt charts to explain what each is, with an example showing how they work, and their pros and cons.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

If you’re looking to buy project management software, you know that the market is saturated with products that promise to provide efficiency to your processes. But you don’t want to put your time, money and effort on a tool that can’t deliver what you need. Projects are how the software collects common issues.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A project timeline is a project scheduling tool that’s used to estimate the total duration of a project from start to end by mapping tasks, deliverables and milestones in chronological order. Why Should You Make a Project Timeline In Excel? We encourage you to download our free file below!

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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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JANUARY 2, 2024

Tactical planning is the practical counterpoint to strategic planning, which describes the overall direction of an organization. Tactical planning tells you how to get there. It’s about execution and, therefore, critical to achieving your strategic goals. What Is Tactical Planning?

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Keeping tabs on the performance of your project is an essential part of project management. Tracking project performance gives project managers the data they need to keep the actual effort of the project aligned with the planned effort and deliver the project on time and within its budget.

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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. But do you know what a construction timesheet is and why it’s important? We’ll explain and tell you when to use a construction timesheet. Learn more Why Are Construction Timesheets Important?

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Projects need approval before they can be executed. A project charter is a project planning document that sells the project to stakeholders and sponsors. But there are a lot of elements to any successful project charter. So, what is a project charter, exactly? What Is a Project Charter?

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APRIL 19, 2023

There’s more than one way to manage a construction project. 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. ProjectManager has Gantt charts to manage your lean construction.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To ensure that your project is meeting scheduling and budget milestones, you need to have project metrics to measure your progress and performance. Project metrics are essential to delivering a project on time and within its budget. But what are project metrics? What Are Project Metrics?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Gantt chart has become a staple of project management. Have you ever wondered why Gantt charts are capitalized or where the tool originated? To further illustrate what a Gantt chart is, we’ll give you an example and link to a free Gantt chart template for Excel that you can download and use right away. Who Was Henry Gantt?

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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. A preconstruction meeting ensures that all those parts are working together on a common goal.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A project milestone is a management tool that is used to delineate a point in a project schedule. These points can note the start and finish of a project, and mark the completion of a major phase of work. If a milestone focuses on major progress points in a project, you can see how it is useful in scheduling.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Gantt charts are a type of bar chart that’s used in project scheduling. If you’re not using a Gantt chart to schedule your tasks and see your entire project on a visual timeline, then you’re at a disadvantage. While complicated to create and edit on paper, a Gantt chart in Excel is easier to use.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Manufacturers make things, and how much they make is determined by demand and the supply of raw materials. But who makes the decision on the quantity of output and how that information is delivered is processed through what’s called a production order. We’ll also throw in some free production planning templates.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

When governments or corporations make large investments, they don’t do so without serious planning. There’s a lot of money involved in these capital projects and that means getting the funding and allocating the finances wisely. We’ll end with a few examples of capital projects to make the concept more understandable.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

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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JUNE 13, 2023

Planning is the bedrock of project management. As you execute the needed tasks, you’ll reach your objective by producing the final deliverable. Many use Microsoft products to organize and manage their work. As the name suggests, Microsoft Planner allows you to plan tasks and manage small projects.

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MAY 31, 2023

If you’re working in project management, then you know about Monday.com. The company has invested a ton of money in its marketing to people working on projects. Let’s take a look at this popular project management software and see if it delivers on one of the most essential project management tools. What Is Monday.com?

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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? What Is Project Management?

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MAY 19, 2022

Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? you can use to help you close those gaps, yet it isn’t easy. Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution. Following processes.

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MARCH 14, 2023

Project managers understand this and work hard to create change management plans that ensure their projects run smoothly. Project management software helps, too, but if you’re not ready to upgrade, we have some free change management templates that can help you manage change.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Product management is a way to organize the development, position and pricing of your product. It helps you manage every step of the process that sees your product go from concept to market. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software, but we understand that not everyone is ready to upgrade right away.

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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. Gantt chart software is used in the project planning phase of project management to schedule tasks and is useful throughout the life cycle of a project.

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and Critical Path Method (CPM) are both useful tools when planning and controlling a project. PERT and CPM are complementary and both are important analytical techniques in project management when managing tasks. This helps when executing the project.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

In this post, we’ll define industrial construction and how it differs from the rest of commercial construction. Finally, we’ll offer links to a few free construction project management templates to help manage industrial construction projects. But each of these sectors can be further subdivided into categories.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Your team is your most valuable resource when executing a project. The ability to know who you need and when you need them for the project is what workload analysis is all about. As you can imagine, workload planning is essential for project success. Learn more When Should You Use Workload Analysis?

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

Project managers put a lot of time and effort into researching the viability of their project. But all that work is pointless if they don’t communicate the purpose of the project to their team and clients. That’s why a kickoff meeting is so important. What Is a Project Kickoff Meeting? It sets up project success.

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MAY 24, 2023

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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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Every project is different, of course, but the differences when managing software development projects are especially so, due to its distinct life-cycle processes. What Is Software Project Management? Software project management is the planning, managing and tracking of software development projects.

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JULY 5, 2022

A business case is a project management document that explains how the benefits of a project overweigh its costs and why it should be executed. A business case is an important project document to prove to your client, customer or stakeholder that the project you’re pitching is a sound investment.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Projects, whether they’re large or small, are journeys. They begin with planning and initiation and ideally end with the achievement of deliverables. Setting project milestones prevents this. Setting project milestones prevents this. What is a Milestone? All projects have start dates and end dates.

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