Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Managing resources in professional services firms is crucial for maintaining sustainability and achieving anticipated employee performance goals. But unfortunately, many resource managers have to rely on approximation and guesswork because they don’t have the right tools and techniques. Let us begin with the basics.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 13, 2020

Resources in project management are the people, places and things you need to get the job done. That can mean a lot of headaches for project managers trying to balance their resources with the team’s capacity. It’s through resource management that projects keep to their budgets and stay on schedule.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2023

Executing projects to meet deadlines without overspending the budget requires a project manager to understand resource availability. It’s part of the larger process of resource management. Resources are anything used to deliver project tasks including materials, equipment, labor and more.

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ProjectManager.com

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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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2022

Resource management is one of the most important aspects of project management. That’s because projects need resources and those resources must be managed. Project resources are all the raw materials, equipment and human resources necessary to execute project tasks. What Is Resource Management?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 25, 2022

Resource management tools are an essential part of any project management software. Every project has materials, tools, equipment, people or resources to manage. No matter how good your project plan is, if you can’t manage your resources, your project will suffer. What Is Resource Management?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Do you have the resources? Resource forecasting is how you can answer that last question. Resources are anything you need to execute the project plan. From your team to the tools they need, materials, equipment, software, office space and so on. Want to know why resource forecasting is so important? Keep reading.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Asana vs. 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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

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. And training to choose from.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2023

One of the tasks of the general contractor is to track those work hours to manage labor costs and keep everyone paid. There are paper construction timesheets, they can also be recorded on spreadsheets or spreadsheet software. But they’re also ideal at managing labor costs and informing time-tracking reports.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

ClickUp and Monday are two of the more visible project management software products on the market. But is that because they’re good at marketing or a good project management tool? But are either of these true project management tools? In the bout of ClickUp vs. Monday, the project management winner is an outsider.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 9, 2022

Managing a project requires more than planning and budgeting, it also requires scheduling. While deliverables are due at specific points on your project timeline, getting those deliverables completed on time requires scheduling your human resources with a resource calendar. What Is a Resource Calendar? Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 16, 2024

When you’re a project management office (PMO) or program or portfolio manager, you’re going to have to deal with multiple projects in various stages of the project pipeline. We’ll get to that in a moment as well as define project pipeline management. ProjectManager’s roadmaps help you manage your project pipeline.

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 20, 2022

Resource planning is a discipline within project management software that ensures the most effective use of an organization’s team members and resources across the portfolio. For the purposes of this article, a resource can be people, equipment, materials, IT assets, or funding. The solution. Capacity planning.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 8, 2023

Project portfolio management software differs from project management software in that the former has to oversee many projects while the latter only involves one project. That’s going to require specific project portfolio management tools that can manage all those projects at once.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You’ve heard it countless times; teams are projects’ most valuable resource. But a project manager has to connect each team member to that work. Resource loading is a process to keep team members fully engaged throughout the project. Being able to balance the resource load across your team is important.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In project management, resources are the people, tools and materials necessary to get the project done. In other words, resources are important—and so is resource management. A resource histogram is a statistical tool used to manage resources. What Is a Resource Histogram?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Every project is different, of course, but the differences when managing software development projects are especially so, due to its distinct life-cycle processes. What Is Software Project Management? Software project management is the planning, managing and tracking of software development projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

You’re a professional services firm, but PSA tools just aren’t robust enough to manage the resource requirements for in-flight projects and the pipeline for workload management. Runn brings together the people side of your business with powerful project resource management features. You sell your time.

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The Digital Project Manager

APRIL 12, 2021

The post 10 Best Marketing Resource Management Software In 2021 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Resources are what you need to execute your project plan—people, equipment and materials. Managing those resources is part of how you deliver a successful project. Each task in your project plan will have project resources like people, time and a budget attached. What Are Resource Constraints in Project Management?

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The Lazy Project Manager

APRIL 6, 2021

What is a Value-Driven Project Resource Management? Project resource management by PMO has changed significantly in the last 20 years. It is no more a mere spreadsheet for allocating resources to the projects and plug the holes. It has evolved into a highly value-driven resource management solution.

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The Digital Project Manager

APRIL 8, 2021

The post 10 Best Open Source Resource Management Software In 2021 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 21, 2023

Most project managers can’t imagine running a project without Gantt charts. This tool has been in the project management toolbox for so long that it predates computers. We’re looking at the best Gantt chart software out there so you can make an informed decision when in the market to purchase one. What Is Gantt Chart Software?

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The Digital Project Manager

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for resource management software today—or wait, scratch that, I’ll just go and get it for free! The post 10 Best Free Resource Management Software In 2021 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Ganttic

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Project managers – this is for you! Here we’ll provide a few tips on creating a better resource management plan. Beyond having a clear roadmap, effective projects require careful resource allocation. In this article, we’ll break down the essentials of aligning your goals with the right resources.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Teamhood is a Kanban project management system for teams. It’s a visual, flexible tool that is perfect for small and medium businesses who want to improve how they manage projects. The software is aimed at firms who want to add agility to improve time to market. Managing items. Let me show you how! Product: Teamhood.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Fluid is award-winning PPM software that influences your whole business for the better. Their goal is to help you work a less admin intensive day, and what project manager wouldn’t want that? Managing work in Fluid. but at its core, it has all the project functionality you need to be able to track, manage and control work.

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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. Hosting model: Cloud only.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 22, 2021

Resources are the largest contributor to successful project delivery , and project managers spend significant time planning and managing their activities. Both resource and project managers work in tandem to develop resourcing strategies for projects. What is project resource management?

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The Digital Project Manager

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Resource management is a tough gig. Wrangling your agency’s management team, primadonna’s, and resources into some kind of order without resource management software is hard.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Resource allocation is just a fancy term for a plan that you develop for using the available resources at your disposal in a project. Resources are varied. The following are some general tips to help you with your resource allocation when managing a project. Identify Resources. Know Your Scope.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 14, 2023

To deliver goods to market on time, manufacturing teams have to consider the supply chain, inventory management, resource planning and production planning, to name a few. Managing this juggling act requires production scheduling software that’s flexible and powerful. What Is Production Scheduling Software?

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WorkOtter

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Businesses often fail because they don’t have the right resource management software. Without this software, your resources might be all over the place. If you want to make sure that your business is as efficient as possible, you should try this software. Why Is Resource Management Important for SMBs?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2022

Software development estimation is an essential part of many projects. Despite its importance, software development estimation is often overlooked. Let’s explore how software development estimation works and its techniques and tools. What Is Software Development Estimation? Learn more.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 4, 2019

Working with people is the main part of project management. Project resource management is how you do this. In this article, I’ll show you what project resource management is, set out a simple process to do it, describe the tools to help and give you tips to overcome some of the common issues.

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Ganttic

MAY 4, 2022

But since Ganttic is a resource planner obsessed with efficiency , we can tell you how to make the most out of your time when it comes to your projects and resources. So think of this as your time tracking feature cheat sheet when you want to make the get out of a project’s resource management.

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