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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Gantt charts are powerful planning tools in project management, but they’re also notoriously difficult to make. It’s a horizontal bar chart that visually represents a project plan over time, listing all the project tasks and their start and end dates. There are many advantages to using even a simple Gantt chart to schedule your tasks.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Even worse, you have a bunch of tasks that haven’t been completed, invoices to file and reports to create. If this is your case, a personal kanban board could help you plan, schedule and track all these tasks so you can manage your workload without feeling overwhelmed. You’re so busy that in reality, you get nothing done.

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DECEMBER 25, 2018

As we move towards the year’s end, before we look forward, let’s take a look back at some of the best blog posts from ProjectManager.com and from around the web. So, here are the seven blog posts on productivity that we found most interesting. We hope that they help you get more done, so you’ll have more time to read our blog.

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MARCH 6, 2024

While Tableau doesn’t have project management features, you can still use it to make a Gantt chart. In this blog, we’ll learn how to make a Gantt chart in Tableau and explore its key features and limitations. Upon closer inspection of each task, this Gantt chart also shows the due dates and total duration of these tasks.

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ProjectManager.com

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? Does Notion Have a Gantt Chart?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 9, 2024

A kanban board is a project management tool that manages workflows and processes using two key elements: kanban cards, which represent tasks, and kanban columns which divide the kanban board vertically to represent steps or stages of completion for them. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It shows high-level objectives, initiatives and a timeline over which to obtain those goals that are set by the management team, who direct the effort for the rest of the organization. The strategic plan also highlights dependencies and potential obstacles that can delay or sidetrack these goals.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2024

To further illustrate kanban in manufacturing, we’ll show a visual example of it at work and outline the key advantages of using this scheduling system as well as how project management software can advance its benefits. Kanban is a visual method for managing workflow and production. What Is Kanban?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Kanban and scrum are agile project management methodologies that can be used for similar purposes, but each has its unique pros and cons. As a project manager, it’s important to understand the difference between kanban and scrum so you can determine the best approach for your team. And certainly, both methodologies have their value.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

If you’re looking to manage a project and facilitate better collaboration with your teams, chances are you’ve heard of and are thinking of trying Microsoft Project and Microsoft Planner. MS Project integrates with MS products such as Office and has financial management tools and Gantt charts. May the best app win.

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ProjectManager.com

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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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Microsoft Project Gantt chart is typically seen as the centerpiece of that project management software. Let’s look at Microsoft Project’s Gantt chart and see what is worthwhile and what is lacking in the essential project management tool. Critical Path Analysis: Identifies the tasks that must be completed to deliver the 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. Gantt charts are the most commonly used tool to create and manage project timelines, but there are other methods and tools you can use like Excel.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 11, 2024

The better the warehouse management, the greater the company’s success. After defining warehouse management and its importance, we’ll focus on its key areas and what the operation life cycle looks like. What Is Warehouse Management? Warehouse management is the process by which the day-to-day operations of a warehouse are run.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Many project management tools can help you plan, manage and track your projects. We’ll even do a side-by-side comparison of Gantt vs. kanban and throw in a couple of free templates so you can kick the tires of both and see if they’re a good fit for managing your project. Each task is represented by a bar on the graph.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Because of that, as a project manager, you should be familiar with tools to create your project documents. While it won’t help you with all the documents, charts or diagrams that you need to manage a project, it can help you create some of them. Microsoft Word is one of those tools. For example, you can create a Gantt chart in Word.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 26, 2024

While some regulations are federal, many change depending on the municipality where the project is being done. Project management software can help plan and organize tasks to ensure the project meets all project and regulatory requirements. All four task dependencies can be linked to avoid costly delays.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Once the strategic plan is clear across the entire organization, project management software will help plan, manage and track those projects to successful completion. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that helps you create timelines and budgets for your organization’s projects and processes.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 22, 2024

Incorporating the construction payment schedule with the execution of the project can be seamlessly achieved with project management software. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software with robust Gantt charts that plan, manage and track schedules in real time.

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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. 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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Project planning is one of the first and most important aspects of project management. Using project planning templates can help you schedule tasks, estimate budgets and allocate resources. Project planning templates are part of project management. Without a plan, projects are in trouble. Why Use Project Planning Templates?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2024

The ability to keep teams working at capacity, but not overworked and threaten burnout and poor morale requires project management software. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that helps plan and manage resources in real time. Then check out the color-coded workload chart.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 15, 2023

If you’re looking to buy project management software, you know that the market is saturated with products that promise to provide efficiency to your processes. Let’s take a look at Jira, which says it helps teams to track, manage and automate their projects. They allow teams to view, manage and report on their work.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

It can be used to communicate what’s needed in the project, the costs associated with the activities and the management of payments. But what is a schedule of values and why is it such an essential construction project management document? The value in this case are is the cost of each of those activities or tasks.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 2, 2024

This concept is an important part of project portfolio management (PPM) and project management offices (PMOs). To organize and manage this process, businesses employ project management techniques and tools, such as project management software. Operational planning is done by the lower layer of management.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Asana is a likely matchup for anyone looking for the right project management software. They’re both well-known and popular project management tools. Asana, on the other hand, is a simple-to-use work management tool. It has kanban boards, task lists, calendar views and more, including a Gantt chart, not a glorified timeline.

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MARCH 8, 2024

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. They can include many different categories depending on their purpose. What Is an RFI in Construction?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Everything you need to know about project management terms is here in one list! Check back often, as this list of project management terminology is ever-evolving, just like project management itself! Check back often, as this list of project management terminology is ever-evolving, just like project management itself!

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APRIL 23, 2024

This is called operational project management. To better understand operational project management requires defining what an operational project is, how it differs from strategic projects and what operational project management is. What Is Operational Project Management? Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing resources effectively is one way to deliver your projects on time and within budget. Project managers use a technique called resource smoothing. There are a number of things a project manager can do, but the goal is always the same: meeting the deadline without resources spiking or falling. What is resource smoothing?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Gantt charts are one of the most important project management tools there are. That’s why project managers use them to manage projects of all sizes across industries such as construction, manufacturing, marketing and many more. Since they’re so important, people use a variety of tools to create them.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Project managers know the critical path. It’s the longest sequence of tasks that must be completed to deliver the project, and these tasks are referred to as critical activities. Using a CPM schedule gives project managers valuable insights into the planning phase of their projects. But not all software has that feature.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Asana is a popular work management software that helps teams collaborate on tasks and projects. Microsoft Project is a popular project management software that has the tools that project managers need to manage teams and projects. As mentioned above, Asana is mostly used as a work management tool.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

The construction phase plan is a critical construction project management document that helps to ensure a safe project. At the end of the blog, we’ll provide links to some related construction project management templates that can help you with your construction phase plan. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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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. A project is a sequence of tasks that lead toward a singular goal.

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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? Monday, the project management winner is an outsider. Who Uses ClickUp?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Shiny new tech is always a topic of conversation, and there’s a lot of chatter around AI in project management at the moment. For project managers , in particular, smart glasses have the potential to change the way you juggle tasks, access and visualize data, and communicate with teammates and stakeholders.

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