Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A project timeline is a visual representation of the tasks that make up the project, showing the sequence of events and key dates. Let’s be clear: I’m not talking about a detailed project Gantt chart, PERT chart or a flow chart. My plan on a page milestones are rolled up into the portfolio plan on a page.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 22, 2024

Construction projects are often long and complicated endeavors. What’s included in the contractor payment schedule and the different types are a critical part of the professional relationship between the project owner and the general contractor. The contractor payment schedule is how contractors in construction projects are paid.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Gantt chart is one of the most important tools in a project manager’s toolbox. One side is a spreadsheet that collects important project data and the other is a visual timeline that shows the entire project from start to finish. What Can You Use a Microsoft Project Gantt Chart For?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 1, 2024

Asana is project management software that offers a variety of easy-to-use tools like timelines, task lists and kanban boards which are mainly used for managing simple projects, everyday tasks and team workflows. It’s a good alternative for small teams that need to manage their workload and collaborate online.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It shows high-level objectives, initiatives and a timeline over which to obtain those goals that are set by the management team, who direct the effort for the rest of the organization. Roadmaps are Gantt charts, but Gantt charts are difficult to make in Excel and even harder to update without using project management software.

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ProjectManager.com

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. Let’s take a look at Jira, which says it helps teams to track, manage and automate their projects. Projects are how the software collects common issues.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Pro+ edition is aimed specifically at project managers needing to create timeline slides for executive briefings and project reviews. More features coming Other changes in the Pro+ edition Styling your timeline Importing from MS Project Getting started Pros Cons Summary FAQ Is Office Timeline Pro+ a Microsoft product?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 29, 2021

Projects, whether they’re large or small, are journeys. Setting project milestones prevents this. Setting project milestones prevents this. Break up your big projects with milestones on ProjectManager.com’s Gantt charts. What is a Milestone? All projects have start dates and end dates.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

Every journey starts with the first steps and every project with a plan. In order for stakeholders and executives to get onboard with a certain initiative, PMs (project managers) must draft a compelling overview covering all the bases: objectives, necessary resources, tasks, schedules, milestones, deliverables, so on and so forth.

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ProjectManager.com

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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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

Project meetings often feel as if they’re in the way of your work. If you’re not working from an agenda or you don’t manage those meetings, that can be true. But meetings are critical for project planning and team collaboration. What Are Project Meetings? Types of Project Meetings. Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Gantt charts are powerful planning tools in project management, but they’re also notoriously difficult to make. There is, however, a simple Gantt chart that can be made in a variety of ways that can be essential when scheduling a project. However, a simple Gantt chart might be just what you need to plan a project.

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ProjectManager.com

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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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2024

When a project is planned, a set of steps are outlined to deliver a product or service. Think of resource requirements as the fuel that drives all project activities. Once one understands what resource requirements are in project management, next there is estimating what those resources will be and managing them.

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ProjectManager.com

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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 2, 2022

Sample project showing dates that are approximate. It’s a good choice for project managers and is a useful communication tool for professionals looking to share key dates and events with others in a presentation. The timeline maker doesn’t take a traditional view of milestones. I’m glad I did. Software: Preceden.

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ProjectManager.com

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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 9, 2023

Around a third of the gross domestic product (GDP) in the average Western economy is a result of project activity so it is unsurprising that organizations do so many projects. However, because there are so many projects, we all often have to contribute (or lead) several at a time.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Do you need a timeline maker for project communications or to create executive briefings? It’s your answer to visually communicating key dates and project tasks in a format that feels familiar. A must-have app for managers wanting a fast way to make attractive timelines, Gantt charts, and swimlane diagrams. Here’s how to use it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 16, 2022

Xebrio brings together requirements management and end-to-end traceability with task management and test coverage all the way to release management. It’s a project management ecosystem that is perfect for technology-led teams, with workflows and an easy interface with a low learning curve. Website: Xebrio.com.

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ProjectManager.com

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. A Gantt chart is a graphical representation of a project schedule from start to finish. What Is a Gantt Chart?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 3, 2022

Do you want to improve communication on your projects ? In this article I’ll share 15 tried-and-tested tips for effective project communications. Use a milestone tracker. The milestone tracker I use is a simple Excel spreadsheet. It lists the milestones in one column, organised by project phase.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 26, 2021

The Pro+ edition is aimed specifically at project managers needing to create timeline slides for executive briefings and project reviews. Summary review of Office Timeline: Office Timeline is a simple way of creating timelines for your project from inside PowerPoint or your browser. Product: Office Timeline.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

No matter what industry you’re in, the one constant throughout the project life cycle of a project is paperwork. Using effective project planning tools and a thorough and well-written statement of work (SOW) will set you up to successfully lead a project over the finish line on schedule and within budget.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 13, 2023

Planning is the bedrock of project management. Many use Microsoft products to organize and manage their work. It’s not that you can’t get things done without a Gantt chart, but a Microsoft Planner Gantt chart would be an essential tool for any large, complex project. But does Microsoft Planner have a Gantt chart?

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ProjectManager.com

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. The only difference from a Gantt chart used in any other industry is that it manages construction tasks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

This helps them keep a focus on the job at hand, not get too much into the detail and helps them and others take the project seriously. Second , to define what a particular workstream on a project is supposed to do. The ‘something’ could be a meeting, a committee, a project, an initiative or anything else.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This month’s free project management template is a Terms of Reference document. This helps them keep a focus on the job at hand, not get too much into the detail and helps them and others take the project seriously. To define what a particular workstream on a project is supposed to do. Project introduction.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 5, 2019

A PERT chart can help you manage your project. But what is a PERT chart and how does it assist project managers when they’re working on larger, more complex projects? It’s a statistical tool that can be very useful when working on a project, as it analyzes and represents the project’s tasks.

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Techno-PM

MARCH 20, 2018

Project Milestone The original milestones were as markers used on public roads, and helped the travelers determine where they are and whether they are on schedule. Milestone in Project Management is used to signify Introduction pecific point during the lifecycle of the project.

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ProjectManager.com

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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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There are four types of construction projects: commercial construction, industrial construction, infrastructure construction and residential construction. One thing is for certain, to manage all these stages requires project management software. But do we really know what residential construction is?

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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. Mine is definitely lists, but I use a lot of visual tools like Vizzlo for creating images that help my stakeholders understand the project environment. Why visual project management matters.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Basic features: building projects. It’s easy to create a new project. From the Projects Dashboard, click ‘Add Project’, and then enter the project’s name. You can group projects by category, which could be useful if you needed to separate projects by client, for example. ApolloHQ Projects Dashboard.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Most people think of project milestones as just a great way to plan, monitor, and tick off key events in your project’s timeline — but they do so much more than that. According to a recent survey , 85% of project managers say they’re actively managing more than one project at a time.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 13, 2024

Resources, such as people, materials and equipment, are needed to deliver projects. Being able to plan, manage and track those resources to meet the needs of a business is called project ERP or enterprise resource planning (ERP) project management. What Is a Project ERP? A project ERP can be expensive.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 28, 2020

A project never exists in a vacuum. A project is executed by a team within an organization that has some sort of a project management framework established to enable the process. This framework should be designed to suit the needs of your projects, your goals and your team. What is a Project Management Framework?

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