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JANUARY 10, 2023

Project meetings often feel as if they’re in the way of your work. If you’re not working from an agenda or you don’t manage those meetings, that can be true. But meetings are critical for project planning and team collaboration. What Are Project Meetings? Types of Project Meetings.

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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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MARCH 1, 2024

Asana is project management software that offers a variety of easy-to-use tools like timelines, task lists and kanban boards which are mainly used for managing simple projects, everyday tasks and team workflows. It’s a good alternative for small teams that need to manage their workload and collaborate online.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Gantt chart has become a staple of project management. Henry Gantt was an American who worked as a mechanical engineer and management consultant. He’s best remembered for the tool that bears his name and his works in the development of what’s called scientific management. Who Was Henry Gantt?

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

In this post, we’ll define industrial construction and how it differs from the rest of commercial construction. Finally, we’ll offer links to a few free construction project management templates to help manage industrial construction projects. What Is Industrial Construction? What Is Industrial Construction?

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Managing more than one project at a time creates a lot of problems. How can you allocate resources wisely across all those projects? How can you keep the projects aligned with the strategic goals of the organization? That and more is what enterprise project management does.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

There’s a lot of money involved in these capital projects and that means getting the funding and allocating the finances wisely. 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? Capital projects involve capital assets.

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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. A balanced scorecard is a strategic management performance metric.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

If you’re a construction project management company looking to hire a site engineer you’ll need to have a thorough job description to caption the right candidate. They are also responsible for organizing and supervising the construction project. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Every project is different. Project strategy is the plan that defines a project, which is why project management strategy is so important. To better manage projects, one must clearly understand project strategy, who’s responsible for it in the organization and the steps to create a project strategy.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s because making a building or a structure is complicated and goes through many phases. Then, subcontractors build it and vendors are responsible for the resources. A construction superintendent is a professional who helps to manage projects and makes sure that they’re running as planned. Many things.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

IT service management (ITSM) is the process of how those services meet the needs of the end users who employ them. Over the course of this blog, we’ll discuss how ITSM is implemented, managed and delivered to meet the needs of an organization and how project management software can help facilitate those processes.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Managing a program or portfolio of projects involves many things, but utmost importance should be given to resource management, especially organizational resources. To start, resources can include labor, management, expertise, equipment, finances, energy, land and time. That is, money that keeps projects operating.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Projects cost money. Those funds have a life cycle of their own and project managers must understand how those costs come in and out of the project and organization. That process is called project cash flow. We’ll look at project cash flow, what it is and how to calculate and manage it.

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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. ProjectManager has Gantt charts to manage your lean construction.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Capital budgeting is a process by which investments in large-scale projects are analyzed, evaluated and prioritized. The use of capital budgeting offers an objective view that helps managers figure out how to invest capital in order to increase business value but also helps the overall health of the company.

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MARCH 22, 2024

Construction projects are often long and complicated endeavors. What’s included in the contractor payment schedule and the different types are a critical part of the professional relationship between the project owner and the general contractor. The contractor payment schedule is how contractors in construction projects are paid.

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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? What Is Project Management?

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Gantt chart is one of the most important tools in a project manager’s toolbox. One side is a spreadsheet that collects important project data and the other is a visual timeline that shows the entire project from start to finish. What Can You Use a Microsoft Project Gantt Chart For?

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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. And you’re not alone in this challenge.

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MARCH 8, 2024

An army of subcontractors each with their own specific discipline complete construction projects. But how do they know what to work on? We’ll also note the difference between an RFI in construction and other construction project management documents before going into the construction RFI process, the different types of RFIs and more.

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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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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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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Gantt charts have been a fundamental project management tool for over a century, and it’s easy to understand why. They provide a visual overview of project tasks and the timeframe in which they need to be completed. The only difference from a Gantt chart used in any other industry is that it manages construction tasks.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Manufacturers have to do more than produce a product, they also have to manage their operations. That’s why manufacturing operations management is so important—it keeps the lights on. Of course, there’s more to manufacturing operations management than that. What Is Manufacturing Operations Management?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Product management is a way to organize the development, position and pricing of your product. It helps you manage every step of the process that sees your product go from concept to market. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software, but we understand that not everyone is ready to upgrade right away.

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MAY 9, 2022

Managing a project is a very challenging, but project evaluation makes it easier. Everything starts with careful planning, which sets the stage for the execution phase where estimations, plans and schedules guide the project team as they complete tasks and deliverables. What Is Project Evaluation?

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Projects don’t end with the final deliverable. This is doubly true with construction projects in what’s called post-construction. Finally, we’ll show how using project management software can help with post-construction. Project management software will help make this process more efficient.

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JULY 26, 2022

When it comes to construction projects, the space that you’re filling is equally as important as the structure that you’re building. That’s why site analysis is so important to a successful construction project; whatever you’re building must work in the space both aesthetically and structurally.

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JULY 18, 2023

Most projects are hierarchical. There’s someone at the top of the project management team who answers to the stakeholders and directs the project manager and project team. That position is called a project executive. What Is a Project Executive? What Does a Project Executive Do?

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JANUARY 23, 2024

When you’re a PMP, program manager or portfolio manager, you need to deliver all those multiple projects on time and within budget. This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. It’s essential to keep projects successful for any organization to thrive.

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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. There’s a lot of planning, managing and tracking involved. But what exactly is financial project management?

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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. Gantt charts are ideal for knowing what’s going on in a project, communicating with teams and avoiding resource overload.

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MAY 1, 2024

Warehouse management ensures that stock matches customer demand. To understand effective warehouse operations, you must first be clear on the warehouse operations process and how it plays into the larger warehouse operations management. Read about that and how to improve the efficiency of warehouse operations.

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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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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the measures of a successful project is not often talked about. Most know of the project management triangle of scope, time and cost. But few mention the importance of having project alignment. What Is Project Alignment? The project should always provide business results that align with the organization.

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MAY 24, 2023

The last thing a project manager wants is a schedule conflict. But a scheduling conflict is an eventuality in project management. Then you can strategize ways to avoid schedule conflicts and employ the project scheduling tools that’ll help. What Is a Scheduling Conflict? The more prepared you are, the better.

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