Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Teamhood is a Kanban project management system for teams. It’s a visual, flexible tool that is perfect for small and medium businesses who want to improve how they manage projects. Cost and plans: Free plan with limited features and users. They run many projects at the same time or have a portfolio of complex projects (or both).

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We’ve learned a lot over the past year about social distancing, hand washing, and, if you want to keep productivity chugging along, you need project management software. These tools, once the domain of project managers, have been a life-saver, connecting workers of all stripes and keeping many industries afloat during a difficult period.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Their goal is to help you work a less admin intensive day, and what project manager wouldn’t want that? Cost: There is a free pilot plan where you can load 5 of your users, 3 of your projects, and have 4 weeks to play to see how it would work. Projects are at the heart of the system. The project workspace.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The world of project management is vast. 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. They can be applied to any project, regardless of the field or industry.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 31, 2019

How does Microsoft Project calculate project costs? Most people assume that the calculation of project cost is the result of the formula, Standard Rate x Work. This simple formula is only a small part of a much more robust method of calculation available in MS Project.

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MPUG

APRIL 25, 2022

Project Management presents many tools and techniques for the management of a successful project. Today, I’d like to continue this conversation on how to achieve success in a project by going back to another basic concept: Earned Value Management (EVM). In other words, EVM helps you quantify the performance of a project.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 23, 2021

We’ve learned a lot over the past year about social distancing, hand washing, and, if you want to keep productivity chugging along, you need project management software. These tools, once the domain of project managers, have been a life-saver, connecting workers of all stripes and keeping many industries afloat during a difficult period.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 11, 2023

ClickUp is project management software that promotes itself as “the one app to replace them all.” Its customizable features make it a good fit for agile project management, and it’s well-suited for distributed teams who are not working side-by-side in an office. While there are many features, they’re not as robust as most users prefer.

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ProjectManager.com

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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MPUG

APRIL 4, 2022

A project, unlike an operation, is a temporary endeavor. Because of this fact, every project will have a beginning and an end. There can be multiple projects launched within a program life cycle or a product life cycle. Regardless, a project always will have a definitive end. Conduct a Variance Analysis.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It’s been a year of challenges and successes but in true “Project-Manager-style”, we always manage to find creative solutions and a way to get things done. As Project Managers we remain masters of organization, planning, and problem-solving, and always seem to find a way to get things done on time (and within budget ?).

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MPUG

MAY 9, 2022

In the first article of this series , I discussed the importance of Earned Value Management, or EVM, which evaluates the performance of your project in terms of its schedule, cost, and work. In this article, we will discuss earned value fields in Microsoft Project and the meaning of each field. Earned Value Fields in MS Project.

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MPUG

MAY 17, 2021

Imagine you are managing a large project, which is strategically important and complex. At the outset, you realize there will be a number of risks, which if not managed well, could paralyze the outcome and have negative impacts on the project objectives. Will a software tool for only project management meet your needs?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 25, 2022

ClickUp is project management software that promotes itself as “the one app to replace them all.” Its customizable features make it a good fit for agile project management, and it’s well-suited for distributed teams who are not working side-by-side in an office. Plan and Execute Projects Across Multiple Views. ProjectManager.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2019

Every project is inherently risky. This is especially true in the fast-paced uncertainty of an IT project. This is doubly true of IT projects. The average cost of just one minute of IT downtime is about $5,600, according to research conducted by Gartner. Download Now. Please check your email for your download link.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 10, 2019

A project without a plan is like a car without a driver. The project plan is the guide that gets a project manager from concept through execution, and a finished product at its destination. There’s an argument that a project plan supersedes everything else in a project. Critical Path Analysis. Brainstorming.

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MPUG

MARCH 28, 2022

Many projects require task scheduling in terms of physical volumes (i.e. material resources in MS Project like ten meters, five tons, twenty items, etc.). Unfortunately, Microsoft Project does not have such feature on the task level. Advanced Cost Management. It is best practice to have two costs: IN and OUT.

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MPUG

MAY 4, 2020

MS Excel is a generic tool that can be used in many situations. In terms of project management, it is an average tool for preparing project schedules, at best. It is generally believed that MS Project is a much better solution than Excel could ever be for project scheduling. Read his full article here.)

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MPUG

APRIL 13, 2020

Working with projects, programs, and portfolios, generates a lot of data. For example, in project management you have data such as planned start, planned cost, planned story points, total number of risks, etc. This is widely used by risk management practitioners across projects, programs and portfolios.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We surveyed MPUG members asking, “What is your biggest frustration, issue, bug, or pain point with the Microsoft Project tool?” Too many unused features that get tangled and wasted, which add costs to the SW. MS Project files (.mpp) MS Project files (.mpp) Steep Learning Curve!

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nTask

JANUARY 19, 2021

The team members are not going to have any knowledge of who’s responsible for each individual process that is being performed in the project development process. There will be no way to track the progress of the tasks and process that are being performed as part of the project development process. Reduced Production Costs.

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Wrike

JULY 26, 2023

Whether it was writing a high school paper, creating a spreadsheet to track expenses, or even just doodling on Paint, MS Office has been a part of our lives for decades. This later included Microsoft Project, which was launched in 1984 to combine much of the project-focused functionality of its sister brands in one offering.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

There are many steps that are taken just to get a project approved. The project has to have a goal and then a criteria for defining its success. But once you’ve sold the project with a strong business case and presentation to your stakeholders, the fun really begins. What Makes a Project Plan? Sample Project Plan.

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MPUG

JANUARY 25, 2021

Periodically during my career at IBM, a live project would be thrown “over the fence,” and, inevitably, hit me on the head while I was working on another full-time project. These were usually troubled projects, and I would be the second or third project manager to take over. What is the project’s goal and objectives?

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MPUG

MARCH 23, 2020

Throughout my career as a project manager, I have been through many project audits, but the first one is etched in my memory. During that first audit as a PM, I was asked to show the Microsoft Project schedule of my project. When I showed the schedule, the auditor asked me to then show the project baseline.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Toggl Track Price: Starts at $10/month Toggl Track is a simple yet powerful time-tracking tool that you can use to track time, manage projects, and organize tasks. What we like Toggl Insights feature lets you easily see how profitable projects and employees are. Project and task organization: Organize projects and tasks by clients.

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MPUG

MAY 29, 2022

This article is the first in a series, in which I wish to make a case for adding certain features to Microsoft’s Project for Desktop and Project for the web software. Time Modelers only want to make forecasts on when their projects will end and track progress of the project.

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PM Basics

APRIL 17, 2022

Creating a realistic project schedule is difficult when you have the wrong mindset. Everyone expects that there’s always a way to squeeze the whole project scope into the deadline project owners set. So begins a tiresome dialog with project owners and other stakeholders. Validate the whole project schedule.

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MPUG

JUNE 6, 2022

Risk Managers don’t toss coins or calculate heads/tails in an experiment. Ever tossed a fair coin? I’d bet you have! At least in your childhood days while deciding which team would bat first in a baseball or a cricket match, or who would serve first in a badminton or tennis game. Every kid agrees to it because it’s unbiased.

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Epicflow Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2019

We have been doing our best to meet our users’ requirements and make their project management life as easy and comfortable as possible thanks to our new features and enhancements. Inter-project Relations. To make your planning more efficient and ordered, we’ve added the inter-project relations feature. Project name.

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Epicflow Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

In project management, even if you’re a talented and experienced project manager, you definitely know you can’t control everything. Uncertainties can concern both internal factors, such as cost, time, and scope issues, and external ones, such as economic crises, illnesses, and different kinds of restrictions caused by these phenomena.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

When a company becomes bigger and gets more and more projects to complete, manual management or tools tailored for single-project management turn out to be inefficient. Both situations can result in your projects’ failure and lead to the loss of clients. Proper project management can save a lot of money for a company. .

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

When a company becomes bigger and gets more and more projects to complete, manual management or tools tailored for single-project management turn out to be inefficient. Both situations can result in your projects’ failure and lead to the loss of clients. Proper project management can save a lot of money for a company. .

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PM Basics

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In this article, you’ll find the real-life project risk management plan example. It comes from my practical experience working on software development projects. Software Project Risk Management Plan Example. The main flow of Project Risk Management includes the following processes: Risk Identification. Introduction.

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Ganttic

JANUARY 14, 2020

If you’re working in project, project portfolio, or resource management, then you are probably familiar with Gantt Charts. They have been around since 1910, and are a useful tool in planning and project management. Projects can be actual projects like building a house or client based projects.

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Paymo App

APRIL 2, 2018

People are gradually becoming more interested in project management as an independent topic and as a possible career. Project management blogs and resources can be a primary source of knowledge, especially if project management (PM) experts contribute to them. And if you’re not yet familiar with project management, don’t worry!

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MPUG

JULY 1, 2020

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Sam Huffman’s Microsoft Project Do’s, Don’ts, and Cool Customizations webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone and welcome to today’s MPUG Webinar, Microsoft Project Do’s, Don’ts and Cool Customizations.

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