ProjectManager.com

MAY 29, 2024

One way to ensure that these goals are achieved is through project management software. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that can create dynamic production schedules with multiple tools. Businesses are always looking for ways to improve efficiency. What Is a Shop Floor?

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ProjectManager.com

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. Let’s define it, explain when it’s used and explore how to make one.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The strategy map is part of the larger balanced scorecard methodology and is used as a way to quickly and effectively communicate strategic objectives and how they will create value for the organization. That is, they all develop strategic plans to achieve long-term goals to create value. What Is a Strategy Map?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To ensure that your project is meeting scheduling and budget milestones, you need to have project metrics to measure your progress and performance. Project metrics are essential to delivering a project on time and within its budget. But what are project metrics? Why are they so important to a project?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

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. Why Should You Make a Project Timeline In Excel? We encourage you to download our free file below!

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This strategy roadmap is used to show where the organization is, where it wants to go and how it plans to get there. Then we’ll break down the components of a successful strategy roadmap and show you how to make one as well as offer some free templates to download to help you get started. What Is a Strategic Roadmap?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2024

Projects are planned, but those plans are rarely executed with changes. Those disruptions can play havoc on a project’s budget. Therefore, project managers are always tracking budget variance to deliver projects without breaking the bank. Variance is a measure of how data points differ from the mean.

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Scrum.org

MAY 29, 2024

This setup allows our team to make instant changes to the website, introduce new products, or publish a blog with the potential to reach thousands of people. How do we satisfy them? The Scrum framework has always focused on ‘product,’ but the project has continued to drive work for many organizations.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 8, 2024

Business capacity measures how much a company can produce or sell over a given period. Looking at the various resources available to a company and comparing them to the time each needs for a specific project is part of capacity management. Capacity management is the first step in project planning.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Cycle time is one of the key performance indicators (KPIs) that manufacturers use to measure the time they spend working on an item. Before we share how to calculate the manufacturing cycle time, let’s make sure we’re clear on what that term means. Finally, we show how project management software can help with manufacturing.

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ProjectManager.com

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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ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2024

This requires first an understanding of demand management and how it benefits business. Next, we’ll outline the demand management process to learn how to implement this planning methodology and how software can facilitate that process. What Is Demand Management? Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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ProjectManager.com

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. What Is Project Management Maturity?

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ProjectManager.com

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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ProjectManager.com

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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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 1, 2021

How do marketers conjure customers to buy the product or service they’re selling? To reach their target customers, marketers use content marketing tactics like blog posts, eBooks, case studies and social media. The content strategy outlines your company’s content marketing goals and how to achieve them. It can seem like magic.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Projects are planned and then life happens. Ideally, project managers know better than to execute their project plans without a performance measurement baseline. Without that knowledge, the project is running blindly, and anyone who’s tried this knows the dangers. What Is a Performance Measurement Baseline?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 22, 2024

The manufacturer decides how big the batch will be and how often those batches will be produced. For batch production to run smoothly, project management software can be used to plan, schedule and track all production activities. Manufacturers have a handful of processes they use to make their products. What Is Batch Production?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 13, 2024

Resources, such as people, materials and equipment, are needed to deliver projects. Being able to plan, manage and track those resources to meet the needs of a business is called project ERP or enterprise resource planning (ERP) project management. What Is a Project ERP? A project ERP can be expensive.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Then we’ll explain how to measure production capacity and provide a couple of examples to better illustrate it. We’ll end with several ways in which manufacturers can increase their production capacity and how software can help with planning. Learn more Why Is It Important to Measure Production Capacity?

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 30, 2024

Everyone on the project team can find value in the data Power BI collects. Businesses without a project management system with task, resource and cost progress data, the reports aren’t trustworthy. Then we’ll show the steps to use Power BI and integrations that can supersize Power BI. What Is Power BI?

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ProjectManager.com

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. Organizational resources are concrete materials and tangible assets that support the program or portfolio of projects, including practice improvements and service delivery.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Whether you’re making the move to Agile project management in your development group or creating an Agile process for your in-house project management methodology, chances are you’re going to have to sell this change to executives in your organization. Align Agile project management with your organization’s strategy.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Businesses aren’t projects but they share many commonalities. While businesses run projects, they also have strategies and objectives that must be met. All of these things and more make them a perfect candidate for business project management. Let’s first explore the definition of business project management.

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Inloox

DECEMBER 4, 2019

#10: Time Management: How to Work More Productively with Timeboxing Do you handle far too much tasks at the same time and without a proper plan? 9: The Iceberg Phenomenon in Project Management: How to Make Invisible Efforts Visible A project takes longer and costs more than expected - not uncommon. How can that be? #8:

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 23, 2021

If someone asked how much value you get from a day of work, what would you say? Unfortunately, these answers aren’t helpful and aren’t valuable to projects. Schedule performance index (SPI) is part of a greater project performance measurement method called earned value management (EVM). Try ProjectManager for free today!

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ProjectManager.com

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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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 5, 2021

Projects are made up of many moving parts. One of the ways that you can determine if the project is behind or ahead of schedule is called schedule control. Project planning, scheduling and control all go together when managing a project to stay on time and meet your deadlines. Why Is Project Schedule Control Important?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 9, 2023

I have been working on agile projects for the past 10 years. A couple of years ago, I asked by an executive how he would know if the money they invested on setting up these agile release trains was working? He was essentially asking me to prove the “ROI” for agile and to measure delivery of value.

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ProjectManager.com

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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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 11, 2024

This is managed by a warehouse management system, which we’ll explain, and detail how project management software can help improve that process. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has multiple project views to help plan, schedule and monitor warehouse operations.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 11, 2021

A project is a vehicle to deliver benefits to their stakeholders. Identifying, describing and measuring these benefits is called benefits management. Having a benefits management plan lets project managers maximize these outcomes for the organization and stakeholders, and it’s part of any successful project management plan.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 31, 2023

But what is it and how can it be applied to your business? Project management software can help you plan for continuous improvement in your projects. Get real-time data for better project management with ProjectManager’s Gantt chart. Let’s take a look at each of those stages and how they work. Good questions.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 24, 2023

The last thing a project manager wants is a schedule conflict. But a scheduling conflict is an eventuality in project management. While it’s the project manager’s job to ensure that the workflow is unobstructed, it’s also their responsibility to resolve scheduling conflicts when they arise—a problem that’s unavoidable.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Everything you need to know about project management terms is here in one list! Plus we’ve added handy links to help you dive deeper into different topics with videos, articles and even our round-up of all resources so you can put these important terms into practice with your projects.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Proper schedule management helps you deliver a project on time. The process starts before the schedule is even made, and continues throughout the project. An ideal plan includes setting expectations, including how to develop, manage, execute and control the project schedule. Roles & Responsibilities. Schedule Changes.

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ProjectManager.com

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? Get started for free.

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