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Tracking Starts with a Status Date

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There are four steps involved in tracking a project: setting the status date, entering actuals and schedule revisions, rescheduling incomplete work, and resource leveling the remaining schedule. Measure Progress Relative to a Schedule Baseline and the Status Date. Setting the Status Date.

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The Gantt Chart in Construction Project Management: Understanding the Best Planning & Scheduling Tool

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Here, the project tasks are listed, their start dates and deadlines, duration, who’s assigned to that task, other resources needed to complete the task and so on. Get started with ProjectManager today for free. ProjectManager’s construction Gantt charts help you plan, manage and track projects in real time.

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How to Create a Project Timeline In Excel (Free Template Included)

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A project timeline is a project scheduling tool that’s used to estimate the total duration of a project from start to end by mapping tasks, deliverables and milestones in chronological order. Then, set a baseline to track planned progress and costs against actual progress and costs to avoid missing deadlines and overspending your budget.

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12 Free Project Planning Templates for Excel and Word

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Download one or all and get your next project started right. You can even use project planning templates to help you manage your project, track progress and risks. Project planning templates help reduce work as they’re preformatted so you don’t have to always start from scratch. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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Notion Gantt Chart: Key Features, Pros and Cons

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Gantt charts are essential project planning and scheduling tools that can manage and track resources and costs. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts have planning, scheduling and tracking features that Notion’s Gantt chart doesn’t, including the ability to link all four types of task dependencies.

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Kanban History: Origin & Expansion Across Industries

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ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has powerful kanban features that can estimate project costs and track resource allocation. View planned hours and actual hours as well as planned costs and actual costs on the task card to help forecast and track resources and costs. What Is Kanban?

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What Should You Include in Your Preconstruction Meeting Agenda?

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Get started with ProjectManager today for free. 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. What Is a Preconstruction Meeting?