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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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The name kanban means billboard in Japanese, and you can see why, as the process involves placing tasks represented by cards on physical or digital kanban boards. Kanban boards allow you to assign tasks to your team members and track their progress as they go through each workflow step until completion.

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How to Create a Timeline in Excel (Free Templates Included)

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Learn how to create a timeline that can be used to visualize how tasks or projects will be executed over time, identify who will be responsible for completing them and identify milestones and deliverables. To start, list all the months of the year horizontally as shown below. Why Should You Create a Project Timeline in Excel?

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How to Make a Maintenance Schedule (Template Included)

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A maintenance schedule ensures those tasks are done regularly. Having a well-structured maintenance schedule reduces unscheduled downtime through the proactive planning and allocation of resources for maintenance tasks. Gantt charts can schedule maintenance tasks, allocate resources and track costs.

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Free Google Sheets Timeline Template: Create Plans Online

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When managing teams, it’s essential to create timelines to track their progress as they execute their tasks. Project management software is the most efficient way to create timelines to plan, assign and track their tasks. Let’s go over how to visualize the duration of any task or project that needs to be executed.

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

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The result will be a Gantt chart diagram that shows your project schedule and basic details such as project task names, duration and due dates. For example, you won’t be able to assign tasks to your team members, link task dependencies, track costs, allocate resources or monitor project progress.

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Google Sheets Kanban Board Template: Manage Workflows Online

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A kanban board is a project management tool that manages workflows and processes using two key elements: kanban cards, which represent tasks, and kanban columns which divide the kanban board vertically to represent steps or stages of completion for them. Still, Google Sheets kanban boards aren’t the best kanban tool you can use.

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How to Prioritize Work When Everything Is #1

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Collect a list of all your tasks. The next step is to see if you have any tasks that need immediate attention. Related: Your Guide to Accurately Estimating Projects. As a general practice, you want to recognize exactly which types of tasks have top priority over the others. Order tasks by estimated effort.