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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Once the vision is defined, then the practical work begins, and strategic planning templates can facilitate that work. ProjectManager is not only powerful project and portfolio management software but also has over 100 free project and portfolio management templates for Excel and Word, including these strategic planning templates.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Gantt chart has become a staple of project management. 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. Our Gantt charts are more than horizontal bar charts that organize tasks across project phases.

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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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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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APRIL 24, 2024

Plus, we’ll throw in some free templates to help streamline order processing. But the data can also help to understand a customer’s purchasing patterns, improve the company’s marketing strategies and streamline its product development. Project management software can make order processing more efficient and achieve those advantages.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

Creating software is a complex, layered endeavor. All that means there are many points in the project’s life cycle in which something can go wrong. A test case is an essential part of software development to make sure a product or a feature is working properly. What Is a Test Case In Software Development?

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Developing software, like any project, is complicated and littered with roadblocks. A bug is a problem with a feature or the functionality of the software, which needs to be fixed before it can be shipped to customers. The more information, the better for the developer to debug the software so it doesn’t happen again.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Then we’ll offer a few free IT incident management templates to help you control issues in your IT and how project management software can do what templates can’t. Having project management software is a way to quickly restore service. We have dozens of free templates that cover every phase of the project.

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

A program is a set of connected projects that are under the oversight of a steering committee, which is the program governance body. Program governance is a critical component to successfully managing a program of projects. Program management software is essential to proper program governance.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Part of any risk culture is the use of project management software to deal with issues as they show up in projects. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software with risk management features that help users to identify, manage and track project risks until they’re resolved.

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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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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

There are many things that are needed when managing a project. These organizational process assets are critical to a project’s success and its operations. An organizational process asset is a tangible resource that’s used to guide the management of an organization’s projects and operations.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Whether you call it project financial management or project accounting, managing a project’s finances is essential to delivering a successful project. But what exactly is financial project management? Then, to help you get started, we’ll have a few free financial management templates you can download.

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APRIL 3, 2024

Managing the various stages of order fulfillment can be more efficiently facilitated through project management software. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software with customizable kanban boards that can manage the workflow of the order fulfillment process, even automating simple or repetitive tasks.

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APRIL 2, 2024

Jira is project management software designed for agile software development teams. Yes, Jira’s kanban view is one of its most popular features and software developers commonly use it for sprint planning. In addition to the kanban board , Jira only offers one more project management tool: the timeline view.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

IT projects are unique. IT teams plan hardware and software installations, upgrades and rollouts, and the tools they use are specific to working with infrastructure, information systems and computers. These IT project management templates are essential to get those jobs done properly.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Product management is a way to organize the development, position and pricing of your product. As you might imagine, having project management software helps plan, manage and track this work, but if you’re not using such tools, there are product management templates that can help you steer the course.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Controlling risk is one of the most important areas of project management. Project managers need to know how to identify, track and mitigate project risk. Let’s learn what is project risk, some common examples and how can you manage it. What Is Project Risk? Get started for free today.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

That is, they all develop strategic plans to achieve long-term goals to create value. Then we’ll provide an example to better illustrate what we’re talking about and even provide a download to a free strategy map template to help you get started. Strategy Map Template Building a strategy map is really just busy work.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The ability to measure progress is how project managers keep projects on track. But if you’re working in an agile environment, the Gantt chart isn’t the right tool for your iterative approach to project management. A burn up chart is a tool used in agile project management to measure progress.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Risk mitigation describes a process by which a project reduces its exposure to risk and works towards minimizing the likelihood of any issues arising during the project. It involves a process that we’ll explore in a moment but basically addresses the top risks in order to fully protect the project. What Is Risk Mitigation?

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Coming up with long-term goals for a business or organization is just the beginning of a five-year project. To better illustrate how a balanced scorecard works, we’ll also show an example of one and then share a free template to help you get started with yours. What Is a Balanced Scorecard?

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This will include an accurate estimate of decentralized IT spending and shadow IT spending, the former being the distribution of functions, control and information, while the latter is IT-related hardware and software use without the knowledge of the IT department. This real-time data will then be available across our software features.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

Construction project management has five phases, the same as any project. Then we’ll explain the difference between the construction phases and the project life cycle. To help you manage your construction projects better, we’ll even add a few free templates. Construction projects are carefully planned.

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MAY 19, 2022

Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution. What is Project Execution? Project Execution Steps. Execute Project Scope.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Choosing the best kanban software for your team might be overwhelming, especially if you’re not sure of what features to look for. That’s why we’ve reviewed Trello’s kanban board and identified its key features, pros and cons to help you better understand how it compares to other kanban software. Does Trello Have a Kanban Board?

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MARCH 29, 2024

Then I’ll show you a worked example (from a fictional proposal but you will be able to see how to apply this to your project). A proposal budget is similar to a project budget, but with a very different goal. For more on how to create a project budget, this article has all the info you need.)

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APRIL 2, 2023

There was a question in our Facebook group recently: where can I get project management templates? And another question: where can I get free or cheap project management training materials? There are many premium project management templates available — including my template bundles and ebooks.

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MARCH 7, 2022

Agile is a project management methodology that allows development teams to set up a dynamic work management framework. In addition, there are also core values, techniques, ceremonies and tools that make up the agile project management approach. Teams that work in an agile environment need flexible project management software.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

What is a project budget? A project budget is a financial document that lays out what you think you’ll spend on a project. It covers all the (approved) expenses required to deliver the project. In other words, it’s the way you answer the question: “How much is this project going to cost?”

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Monday is a matchup made for project management professionals. Asana vs. Monday are both similar project management tools. They have features, such as project tracking, workflow automation and other standard project management software features. Which one to choose? You can’t have both, so you want what’s best.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

This concept is an important part of project portfolio management (PPM) and project management offices (PMOs). This can apply to a business or a project team. To organize and manage this process, businesses employ project management techniques and tools, such as project management software.

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MARCH 31, 2023

Welcome to project management 101. 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. What Is a Project? Projects are made up of deadlines.

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APRIL 19, 2023

There’s more than one way to manage a construction project. 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. From the world of manufacturing comes an approach called lean construction.

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MARCH 9, 2022

Stakeholders are important to every project. They are impacted by the project, be they investor or customer. Let’s take some time to define what a stakeholder is, examples of stakeholders and free stakeholder templates that can help with stakeholder management. The stakeholder has a vest interest in the project.

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MAY 7, 2023

Project managers are often faced with the challenge of managing complex projects and ensuring that they stay on track. I’ll confess: when I started out as a project manager, this was a piece of jargon that honestly didn’t mean much at all? But what is an organizational process asset (OPA)? Think intranet or policy library.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

In order to accomplish those goals and meet a tight deadline and an even tighter budget, you need these 10 free manufacturing Excel templates. ProjectManager has dozens of free templates to download. We curated our template page to select 10 of the essential manufacturing templates for Excel that all manufacturers can benefit from.

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