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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A project charter is a project planning document that sells the project to stakeholders and sponsors. We’ve included a free project template charter to help as an example of what a project charter should include. So, what is a project charter, exactly? What Is a Project Charter? What is the essence of the project?

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JANUARY 10, 2023

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. Let’s take a look at 10 different types of project management meetings and define them, and we’ll start with the definition of what a project meeting is.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

But you don’t want to put your time, money and effort on a tool that can’t deliver what you need. What Is Jira? Projects are how the software collects common issues. It organizes tasks, links dependencies, set milestones and much more. It’s an essential scheduling and planning tool. That’s a tall order.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Gantt charts are powerful planning tools in project management, but they’re also notoriously difficult to make. Let’s look at what a simple Gantt chart is and why one would want to use it over the more dynamic Gantt charts. What Is a Simple Gantt Chart? Here are only a few reasons why.

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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. We’ll show you how to make a Gantt chart in ProjectManager and why construction Gantt charts help deliver projects on time and within budget. What Is a Construction Gantt Chart?

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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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OCTOBER 18, 2023

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. But what exactly is project performance? We’ll answer that question and then show you how to measure project performance in your project.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Many project management tools can help you plan, manage and track your projects. 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. Gantt charts to explain what each is, with an example showing how they work, and their pros and cons.

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MARCH 20, 2024

What Is a Preconstruction Meeting? Everyone involved in the construction planning should attend the preconstruction meeting. It ensures everyone working on the project, regardless of their part, will have a clear idea of what’s expected and when it’s expected to be completed.

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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. Milestones can be used to symbolize anything that has started or finished, though it’s primarily used as a scheduling tool. If a milestone focuses on major progress points in a project, you can see how it is useful in scheduling.

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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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JUNE 6, 2022

What we’re seeing now is that project management tools are getting better at catering for both preferences, and making it easier to share information visually with the people who need it. Being able to present your ideas visually helps on slides, reports, presentations and simply when sitting next to a colleague drawing out a concept or plan.

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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. But what are project metrics? Why are they so important to a project? What Are Project Metrics? Learn more Why Are Project Metrics Important?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I bet your project sponsor expects you to dive into the detail and understand why a line of code isn’t working, and strategically advise on business benefits as a result of your project… and everything in between. Below are 5 of the areas where I know people struggle with skills, and a couple of tips about how you can improve in those areas.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But why use one or even both of these project management tools when there’s one that beats them both at the project management game? It also links all four task dependencies to avoid costly delays, filters for the critical path to identify essential tasks and sets a baseline to track your planned effort against your actual effort.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

But do you know what a construction timesheet is and why it’s important? Following that, we’ll go step-by-step on how to make a construction timesheet and provide you with a free template to download to help you get started with your construction timesheets. What Is a Construction Timesheet?

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APRIL 19, 2023

Let’s explore lean construction, defining what it is and its key principles. 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. What Is Lean Construction? Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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OCTOBER 11, 2020

What is Office Timeline? Both the PowerPoint plugin and the browser versions let you easily create visuals of key dates, milestones, tasks and project schedules with lots of styling options to match your company’s brand. How does Office Timeline work? Milestones sit closer to the timeband, both above or below it.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

When governments or corporations make large investments, they don’t do so without serious planning. Let’s take a look at capital projects, explore the idea of a capital asset and delve into the process of capital planning. What Is a Capital Project? Learn more What Is a Capital Asset? But what is a capital asset?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 2, 2021

That’s why a kickoff meeting is so important. The team and client know the mission statement, the vision statement and the project plan. The team and client know the mission statement, the vision statement and the project plan. What Is a Project Kickoff Meeting? What Is the Purpose of a Kickoff Meeting? Learn More!

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MAY 31, 2023

We’ll avoid the question as to why Monday.com named itself after the most hated day of the week and leave that for another time. What Is Monday.com? This highly customizable tool is understandably popular as it has a forever-free plan. But what about that all-important project management tool, the Gantt chart?

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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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AUGUST 16, 2023

Let’s go into why to use a Gantt chart in Excel, how to make one and where to download a free Gantt chart template in Excel. Why Should You Make a Gantt Chart In Excel? You can even track the progress of those tasks by shading that bar according to what percentage of the task has been completed.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Have you ever wondered why Gantt charts are capitalized or where the tool originated? Who was Henry Gantt and what was the history of the Gantt chart? 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.

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JUNE 13, 2023

Planning is the bedrock of project management. What Is Microsoft Planner? As the name suggests, Microsoft Planner allows you to plan tasks and manage small projects. 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.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 28, 2023

What is RAG is project management? The table below shows what the colors mean. And some companies don’t use colors at all, instead favoring smiley faces, weather symbols or some other graphical indicator that shows if a project is progressing to plan, struggling a bit or in trouble. That’s the RAG status of the project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

Why use a Terms of Reference document? I use it mainly for two things: First , putting down in writing what my Steering Group are actually supposed to do to set the ‘ground rules’ for that group and their meetings. Second , to define what a particular workstream on a project is supposed to do.

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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. There are differences between PERT and CPM, of course, which is why they work so well together when calculating the time it’ll take to complete tasks in your project. What Is PERT?

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JULY 5, 2022

What Is a Business Case? 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. Once your business case is approved by the project stakeholders, you can begin the project planning phase. How to Write A Business Case.

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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. Let’s dive a bit deeper into the subject and explain how it differs from other types of planning, its benefits and more.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

What exactly is a project owner, what does the project owner do and so forth? What Is a Project Owner? They have the big picture and look at what the project is achieving and how it fits in with the larger strategy of the business or organization. Learn more What Does a Project Owner Do?

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APRIL 29, 2021

They begin with planning and initiation and ideally end with the achievement of deliverables. Setting project milestones prevents this. Break up your big projects with milestones on ProjectManager.com’s Gantt charts. Break up your big projects with milestones on ProjectManager.com’s Gantt charts.

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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. Try it free today!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 2, 2022

A note from Elizabeth: At the moment, there is an AppSumo lifetime deal on Preceden, which is how I bought my license. Pricing: Free for 1 public timeline/1 user, then there is a Personal and a Business Plan. The timeline maker doesn’t take a traditional view of milestones. When you start a new timeline, this is what you see.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Before you can accomplish your goals, you need to plan how to reach them. A work plan creates a clear path to those desired outcomes. Of course, the work plan won’t be written and initiated by a single person. Once all is said and done, then you can continue building out the rest of your work plan.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Before we get into our roundup of online Gantt chart software, we’ll first explain what a Gantt chart is and why Gantt chart software is so beneficial when managing a project. What Is Gantt Chart Software? Benefits of Using Gantt Chart Software If you’re not using Gantt chart software, why consider it?

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AUGUST 22, 2023

What Is Project Failure? ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that empowers teams to plan, manage and track projects in real time. Use Gantt charts to accurately plan, real-time dashboards to analyze live data and other features to manage tasks, risk, resources and more. Learn more.

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