ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Microsoft Power BI is a data analysis software that allows you to use various tools such as spreadsheets, pie charts, stacked bars and other types of diagrams to visualize project or business data, including the Power BI Gantt chart. But is Power BI good for project management? Does Power BI Have a Gantt Chart?

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APRIL 24, 2024

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. Order processing, which includes sales order processing and purchase order processing, is the managing and fulfillment of customer orders.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Every project is different. While they all have a timeframe and end with a deliverable, they require unique methodologies and steps to reach their goals. Project strategy is the plan that defines a project, which is why project management strategy is so important. What Is Project Strategy?

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MARCH 28, 2024

Notion is work management software that helps teams from across industries such as product development, engineering or marketing to facilitate team communication, manage tasks and create simple project timelines. While Notion has project management features, is there a Notion Gantt chart?

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Then we can go through the capital budgeting techniques and the steps to a capital budgeting process. Capital budgeting is a process by which investments in large-scale projects are analyzed, evaluated and prioritized. Whatever capital budgeting decisions one makes, project management software can help track those costs.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 12, 2024

How do teams manage without Atlassian? Buy Now We earn a commission if you click this link and make a purchase, at no additional cost to you #ad What we use FreeAgent The best finance management software for managing invoices, billing and banking as a small business. I think this one is an essential!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2024

I have mentored project managers for years, and recently, more of my mentees have been going through project management apprenticeships. Maybe an apprenticeship in project management would be the right career move for you? Maybe an apprenticeship in project management would be the right career move for you?

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Risk culture is simply an organization’s employee’s awareness, attitudes and behaviors towards risk and how they’ll manage it. An organization that has a risk culture simply means they’re prepared for identifying, managing and mitigating risks as issues arise in their work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

If you’re searching for a project management job, you’ve no doubt come across a range of different job titles. The ‘project manager’ job descriptions have a wide variety of roles and duties, which can make it hard to know what’s right for you. That’s what a project is.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Initiating a project is where it all starts in PRINCE2®. You also put in place all the required elements to make sure the project goes smoothly. The Initiating a Project process is designed to “establish solid foundations” according to the 2023 Managing Successful Projects official manual, also known as PRINCE2 7.

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MARCH 5, 2024

A calendar is a great planning tool for tracking tasks and deliverables’ due dates, especially when executing large projects that span across months. They’re useful throughout the project scheduling process and are easy to use. Plus, most people understand them, which makes them a fundamental tool for project managers.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

So our best course of action is to prepare a risk mitigation plan so that we can manage those risks that are the most dangerous to our organization effectively before they have the opportunity to negatively impact us. ProjectManager has risk management features to mitigate risk in projects. What Is Risk Mitigation? Learn more.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The process manufacturing production method is commonly used in bulk production and follows sequential steps. When doing process manufacturing, it’s important to follow specific steps. One step must be completed before starting the next step. The list of items that are produced by process manufacturing is varied.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A budget is a document that’s mainly used to break down the costs of executing a project or running the operations of a business for a period of time and define a maximum spending limit for the procurement of resources. Google Sheets helps with collaboration but it isn’t a true project management software.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

If I remember rightly, we did phone interviews before bringing people in, because it was a quick way of screening out job candidates that would not be a good fit for the next step in the process and ultimately the role itself. The preliminary interview step is basically that: a quick screening. What is a preliminary interview?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 14, 2022

Davis, MSPM, PMP and Project Management Superhero. Davis, MSPM, PMP and Project Management Superhero. He’s taken the PERT (Project Evaluation and Review Technique) estimating approach to the next level by letting you add a dash of professional judgement in with the numbers. I caught up with William W.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2024

To further illustrate kanban in manufacturing, we’ll show a visual example of it at work and outline the key advantages of using this scheduling system as well as how project management software can advance its benefits. Kanban is a visual method for managing workflow and production. What Is Kanban?

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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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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2024

One way to make sure you’re supporting your team and project alike is with workforce planning. Then we’ll help you with the workforce planning process and explain the benefits of using workforce planning in your projects. Finally, we’ll see how project management software allows you to better manage your workforce.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Have you ever worked on a project where you got going, and then there was confusion about what you were actually supposed to be doing? The project initiation phase is where you start to pull together all the stakeholders and what they want, to get the whole project team aligned behind the idea. How frustrating. Keep it short.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Summary: Kickoff is a free project management training course from PMI. Are you looking for free project management training ? An online course that will help you get started if you haven’t managed a project before? What’s your first step, and how do you know it’s the right one? Let’s go!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 29, 2021

How do you manage your projects? Whatever it is you’re managing you’ll probably use, or need, a tool to help you do it. What remains the same is that there is a lot to manage. You might have multiple long-term projects on the go, as well as smaller one-off tasks. And a lot to remember. It can be overwhelming.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2022

But can we apply the same principle to project management? The basics of a T-Shaped Individual. What does it mean to be a T-shaped Project Manager? There are different ways to consider T-shaped project managers. The first is to judge all project manager skills inside the Project Management framework.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Excel project budget templates are one of the most popular tools to create a project budget. However, Excel isn’t the best tool for project budgeting as it doesn’t allow project team members to collaborate online, sharing files among team members it’s a time-consuming process, among other productivity drawbacks.

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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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JANUARY 10, 2024

Project managers are constantly making requests to the project management office (PMO). A project intake process is beneficial for an organization. We’ll explain why as well as what to look out for when evaluating those project requests. What Is the Project Intake Process? That’s normal.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

PRINCE2 was the first project management certification that I got. I had some project experience by that point, but I was still pretty overwhelmed by the volume of material I had to learn, the jargon , the processes, and the weird structure of the exam. It teaches you how to do project management.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 28, 2023

This is an important step before manufacturing and must be thoroughly understood. Then find out the steps to process planning and see what a manufacturing process plan is and why it’s beneficial to production. That’s because process planning is basically the bridge between product design and product manufacturing.

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Manufacturing Process Planning Engineering 260

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Projects can be a hotbed of conflict. From the difficult stakeholder who wants to undermine the project’s success to a disagreement about a feature of a deliverable, project work lends itself to workplace conflict situations. And project managers contribute hugely to that because we go out and look for it.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Managing information costs and managing information security for those costs are part of making an IT budget. We’ll also discuss the importance of an IT budget, who’s involved in making one and what’s included so you don’t miss any crucial steps. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts help you plan, manage and track IT costs.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 25, 2023

IT asset management is how businesses make sure those IT resources are being efficiently used. But what is an asset in IT and what does IT asset management mean? Then we’ll explain the IT asset management process, including what an IT asset manager does and more. What Is IT Asset Management?

Infrastructure 336

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Most projects don’t deliver their original scope: 54% of projects fail to deliver the agreed-upon functionality. Scope creep in project management is where additional requirements are added to the project, beyond what was originally agreed and these additions are not formally authorized. Basically, anything goes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2023

Whether it’s what desk to put in our new conservatory space (and I’ll tell you what we ended up deciding later), or who to invite to meetings, or managing to order everyone else’s food and then getting so overwhelmed with having made decisions all day for all the people that I couldn’t choose anything for myself. Ready to get into it?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The project budget is developed during the planning phase of a project. It’s a document that captures the total costs required to complete a project over a specified timeframe. The more accurate your forecast for project costs, the more likely you’ll be able to deliver a successful project and make a profit.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Without a plan, projects are in trouble. Project planning is one of the first and most important aspects of project management. Using project planning templates can help you schedule tasks, estimate budgets and allocate resources. Download one or all and get your next project started right.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Uncertainty is a certainty in projects. Risks will arise and threaten the successful delivery of your project. That’s the first step in planning, managing and mitigating risk in your projects. That’s the first step in planning, managing and mitigating risk in your projects.

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