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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Gantt charts are the granddaddy of them all, but kanban boards are the young upstart. If we compare Gantt charts vs. kanban boards we’ll find both are valuable to your project in different ways. Let’s take a look at kanban vs. Gantt charts to explain what each is, with an example showing how they work, and their pros and cons.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While it won’t help you with all the documents, charts or diagrams that you need to manage a project, it can help you create some of them. For example, you can create a Gantt chart in Word. Why Should You Make a Gantt Chart In Word? Because of this, knowing how to make a Gantt chart in Word can be helpful.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Roadmaps are Gantt charts that manage multiple projects and can link dependencies to avoid delays and set a baseline to track progress and costs in real time. How can you keep the projects aligned with the strategic goals of the organization? That and more is what enterprise project management does.

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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. Construction Gantt charts, therefore, are a natural fit. Gantt charts in construction can be used for any number of different activities. What Is a Construction Gantt Chart?

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APRIL 23, 2024

Managers can plan on robust Gantt charts that link dependencies, filter for the critical path and set a baseline to track variance in real time. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts plan and schedule operational projects. This is called operational project management. What Is an Operational Project?

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Gantt charts are a type of bar chart that’s used in project scheduling. The first design for a Gantt chart was made by Henry Gantt some time between 1920-1915. In the 100+ years of its existence, the Gantt chart has moved from paper to digital tools, such as a Gantt chart in Excel.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s a historical bar chart diagram that defines a resource allocation schedule. A resource histogram is a stacked bar chart that is used for resource allocation in project management. It’s basically a resource planning graph that displays the amount of time a resource is scheduled to work over a period of time. Learn More!

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Gantt chart is one of the most important tools in a project manager’s toolbox. The Microsoft Project Gantt chart is typically seen as the centerpiece of that project management software. However, some never get the chance to use Gantt charts for Microsoft Project because of the steep price and learning curve.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Gantt charts can schedule maintenance tasks, allocate resources and track costs. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts and recurring tasks can make powerful maintenance schedules. It keeps equipment in optimal working condition, which leads to more efficiency and quality and keeps work on time and within budget.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Our roadmap is a Gantt chart that visually represents all of your strategic goals and related projects, including the steps necessary to accomplish them. That doesn’t happen without an organizational strategy to plan for the organization’s long-term success. Organizational strategy has many layers. What Is Organizational Strategy?

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The trouble is most people want more than kanban boards, which is Trello’s bread and butter, and they want Gantt charts , which Asana doesn’t have. The trouble is most people want more than kanban boards, which is Trello’s bread and butter, and they want Gantt charts , which Asana doesn’t have. What Is Trello Used For?

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MARCH 21, 2024

Then check out the color-coded workload chart. See at a glance who’s overallocated and balance their workload from the chart to keep everyone productive. rojectManager’s workload chart keeps allocation balanced and teams productive. What do we mean when we say maintenance planning? What Is Maintenance Planning?

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MARCH 20, 2024

Our color-coded workload chart shows everyone’s allocation and general contractors can balance the team’s workload right from that chart to keep them working at capacity and staying productive. ProjectManager has workload charts to keep teams productive. What Is a Preconstruction Meeting?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Our Gantt chart leaves the competition behind, with all four task dependencies to avoid delays, filtering for the critical path to identify essential tasks and a baseline to track planned progress and costs against your actual progress and costs. ProjectManager’s Gantt chart helps you plan, manage and track work in real time.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

All those areas are collected on one page, and that page is populated by graphs that record the data visually for a project manager to easier digest and get a snapshot of where they are in the lifecycle of the work. Focus on one of the many sections of the project and generate a graph from the dashboard for a visually compelling presentation.

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MARCH 14, 2024

To effectively plan and manage your project strategy, you’ll need a Gantt chart. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software with robust Gantt charts that give managers transparency into how the project progresses in real time and the resources it needs to achieve its goals. What Is Project Strategy?

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Project managers can view our color-coded workload chart, which makes it easy to see who is overallocated. Then you can reallocate your resources right from the chart to balance the team’s workload and keep them productive and happy. Your team is your most valuable resource when executing a project. What Is Workload Analysis?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Mind Mapping Process Mapping Storyboarding Root Cause Analysis Charting, Diagramming and Graphing Drawing and Sketching Wireframes Use Cases and user stories. I’d say that this would help new and student project managers but I felt myself going, “OK, I could display errors during testing as a graph.”

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We have multiple project views, from kanban boards to tasks lists, sheet and calendar views, but project managers plan their projects on our powerful Gantt charts. Unlike templates, our Gantt charts can not only organize your tasks, add resources and costs, but link all four types of task dependencies to avoid costly delays.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 15, 2023

To test the tires, we zeroed in on one of the foundational tools in project management, the Gantt chart. Is there a Jira Gantt chart? Does Jira Have a Gantt Chart? That leads to the most important question, does Jira have a Gantt chart? If you’re used to working with Gantt charts , you’re sure to be disappointed.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 6, 2022

Visual project management is simply using graphics, pictures, graphs and charts to display project information. It’s a lot easier to communicate complex constructs or share lots of data points on a graph than it is in a paragraph. Why visual project management matters. And this is effecting workplace communication too.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Ordering a product and getting it delivered has become commonplace. While order processing seems to work fast and without issue, a lot is going on in the background to ensure the seamless management of placement, picking, sorting, packing and shipping. Plus, we’ll throw in some free templates to help streamline order processing.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Build your plan on our robust Gantt charts that organize tasks, resources and cost, scheduled on a visual timeline to see the whole project in one place. If you’re not familiar with a balanced scorecard, we’ll define the term and show the four perspectives it tracks as well as explain what should be included in a balanced scorecard.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Asana’s timeline is no substitute for a Gantt chart and ClickUp is more focused on productivity than project management. If you’re looking for project management software, then you’ll want a robust Gantt chart among other project views to give you the flexibility to manage any project how you want. That’s fair. What Is Asana?

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that has robust Gantt charts that can organize tasks on a timeline as well as manage human and nonhuman resource costs in real time. Our powerful Gantt chart links all four types of task dependencies to avoid costly delays. What Is a Construction Superintendent? Many things.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Plus, Monday doesn’t have enough features to justify its cost and price increases, especially with its inferior Gantt chart. ClickUp and Monday are two of the more visible project management software products on the market. But is that because they’re good at marketing or a good project management tool? What Is ClickUp?

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JANUARY 18, 2024

MS Project integrates with MS products such as Office and has financial management tools and Gantt charts. Our Gantt chart does more than either, linking all four task dependencies, filtering for the critical path and setting baselines to track project variance. May the best app win. What Is Microsoft Project?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software with powerful strategic roadmaps that collect all your projects and displays them on one Gantt chart. When the leadership team defines an organization’s vision, they look toward the future and identify the goals and objectives they want to achieve.

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MARCH 27, 2024

This led to improvements in manufacturing efficiency. Kanban in manufacturing and production has many uses, which we detail below, as well as how it relates to lean and just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing. What Is Kanban? Kanban is a visual method for managing workflow and production. On this board are cards that represent specific tasks.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

See how ProjectManager’s Gantt chart can help you stay organized. 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. Get started for free today. What Is a Project?

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Roadmaps are Gantt charts, but Gantt charts are difficult to make in Excel and even harder to update without using project management software. Roadmaps are Gantt charts, but Gantt charts are difficult to make in Excel and even harder to update without using project management software. What Is a Strategic Roadmap?

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Our Gantt chart beat both Asana and Microsoft Project, doing what there’s can do and more, such as linking all four types of task dependencies to avoid costly delays, filtering for the critical path to identify essential tasks and setting a baseline to track planned progress and costs against actual progress and cost.

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APRIL 11, 2024

For example, robust Gantt charts can organize tasks, delegate stock work to employees and track stock levels in real time. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts help plan warehouse operations. It acts as a waystation, a part of the larger manufacturing and fulfillment processes. Still, that work should be overseen by the business.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Use our powerful Gantt charts to estimate your project resource requirements accurately by making detailed project plans. Use our powerful Gantt charts to estimate your project resource requirements accurately by making detailed project plans. CAPTION ProjectManager’s Gantt charts help you plan your resources.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that has robust Gantt charts that help plan the tactical steps on a visual timeline. Our Gantt charts organize tasks, set milestones and link all four types of task dependencies to avoid costly delays. Tactical planning tells you how to get there. What Is Tactical Planning?

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MARCH 8, 2024

The general contractor will create project plans and schedules with Gantt charts , but subcontractors need different tools to execute their work. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts are powerful planning and scheduling tools. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts are powerful planning and scheduling tools. What Is an RFI in Construction?

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Using our free project dashboard template for Excel creates graphs that track your tasks, workload, costs and more. A risk matrix is a type of chart that’s used by project managers to map risks. There are many project management templates that are designed to help you identify, respond to and track those risks.

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