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JANUARY 9, 2023

A weekly schedule helps organize plans and activities to ensure you don’t forget anything important. Weekly schedule templates are tools to make weekly planning a breeze. This article discusses the benefits of creating and using weekly schedule templates for personal and team use.

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MAY 22, 2024

For batch production to run smoothly, project management software can be used to plan, schedule and track all production activities. ProjectManager’s sheet view schedules and tracks batch production in real time. Maintenance can be scheduled for downtimes, rather than stopping production.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 11, 2024

This includes high-level processes, such as receiving and organizing warehouse space, scheduling labor, managing inventory and fulfilling orders. They need a clear understanding of the planning, scheduling and monitoring of warehouse operations to ensure that they’re being done properly.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Creating a schedule of values is important for the project owner, contractor and subcontractors alike. But what is a schedule of values and why is it such an essential construction project management document? We’ll answer these questions, explain when the schedule of values is used and the benefits of using one.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

There is, however, a simple Gantt chart that can be made in a variety of ways that can be essential when scheduling a project. Then, we’ll explore the different tools that you can use to build a simple Gantt chart and offer some free simple Gantt chart templates to get you started. Get started with a free Gantt chart template.

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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. Our free inventory template for Excel can help you manage your production inventory. What Is Kanban?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2024

The general contractor will create project plans and schedules with Gantt charts , but subcontractors need different tools to execute their work. ProjectManager’s Gantt charts are powerful planning and scheduling tools. You can use our free request for quote template (RFQ) to help you get started.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Following that, we’ll go step-by-step on how to make a construction timesheet and provide you with a free template to download to help you get started with your construction timesheets. The streamline payroll by automatically populating weekly timesheets to save time. We’ll explain and tell you when to use a construction timesheet.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Resource Calendars Resource calendars are used to get a weekly or monthly overview of your project team’s allocation. It’s a resource planning graph that’s used to show availability and the amount of time a resource is scheduled to work over a period. Here are a few that can help with organizational resource management.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

ProjectManager’s kanban boards offer advanced planning, scheduling and tracking features to help you manage your team’s workload and track their performance. Get your free Kanban Board Template Use this free Kanban Board Template for Excel to manage your projects better.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 30, 2024

ProjectManager’s kanban boards offer advanced features such as resource management, cost tracking or schedule management capabilities. If you need robust project management software, you can try ProjectManager instead. Here are some of the main drawbacks of using Notion kanban boards. There are no resource or cost management features.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can view resource loading on a daily, weekly, monthly or project basis. Resource leveling works at balancing schedules and budgets with resources, breaking things down into time and available resources. Take the resource scheduling data you collected and compare that to your target utilization.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Then we discuss how you can schedule recurring tasks in ProjectManager so you never have to worry about missing one again. You probably have standup meetings daily or at least weekly with your team. Project managers have status reports that they usually conduct on a weekly basis. It’s happened to all of us.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 11, 2024

Resource smoothing is a time-constraint scheduling technique that helps to optimize resources and deliver a project without having to change the deadline. It can involve anything from hiring more team members to changing the scope of the project in order to stay on schedule. What Is Resource Smoothing?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 10, 2023

You’ll also want to review the budget, assess risk and schedule upcoming meetings to make sure everything discussed has been resolved. A contingency plan is a what-if scenario for if the project has issues or problems that require changing its scope, schedule or budget. What Project Management Templates Can Help With Project Meetings?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 23, 2024

ProjectManager’s Gantt charts plan and schedule operational projects. To put the difference between a strategic project and an operational project, the former shares a vision for the future and the latter plans out how you’ll get there on a daily, weekly or regular basis. Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 17, 2023

These free Word and Excel templates for business will give you an upper hand over the competition. These 15 free Word and Excel templates for business help with everything from cost-benefit analysis to timesheets. Our free SWOT analysis template for Word is a method that can be used to evaluate your business environment.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2023

Using planning templates can help you stay organized and keep to your budget and they allow you to schedule and create the kind of event that serves its purpose, whether that’s networking at a trade show or launching a team-building workshop. We have free templates for every phase of a project.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 9, 2024

We’ll even throw in a few free construction resource management templates to help you get started. Once these relationships have been established and scheduled, the execution of the project tasks can begin. Our free resource plan template for Excel helps you organize your tasks, resources and map them on a weekly and monthly calendar.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2023

ProjectManager is award-winning software with powerful Gantt charts that can manage your resources, costs and schedule to make sure everything falls into place without waste. All four dependencies can be linked to avoid costly delays and a baseline can be set to track planned progress against actual progress to keep production on schedule.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2023

Project management software helps, too, but if you’re not ready to upgrade, we have some free change management templates that can help you manage change. If you’re looking for other free project management templates, you’re in the right place. There are downloadable templates for every phase in the project life cycle.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

We’ll walk you through who uses a burn up chart and how it differs from a burndown chart while throwing in some free templates. It’s used for tracking work in a project schedule or during a sprint in a scrum. What Is a Burn Up Chart? A burn up chart is a tool used in agile project management to measure progress.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2023

To help you get started, we have 7 free budget templates that you can download right now. 7 Budgeting Templates for Business and Project Budgeting Below are seven budget templates that you can use for estimating your project’s costs. Budget Proposal Template Before you can create a budget, you have to get it approved.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 16, 2024

You’ll also assemble a team, assign each their roles and responsibilities in the project, set deadlines for each task and schedule regular meetings to track progress and address issues. Get your free Lessons Learned Template Use this free Lessons Learned Template for Excel to manage your projects better.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We’ll also throw in some free production planning templates. Production Planning Templates Planning for production is more than just filling out a production order, as important as that is. There are many other steps, which our project management templates can help you with. What Is a Production Order?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2023

These IT project management templates are essential to get those jobs done properly. ProjectManager has dozens of free project management templates for Excel and Word that IT managers need when working on web development, software development, mobile app development, network configuration and so much more.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Once the vision is defined, then the practical work begins, and strategic planning templates can facilitate that work. ProjectManager is not only powerful project and portfolio management software but also has over 100 free project and portfolio management templates for Excel and Word, including these strategic planning templates.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 3, 2024

We’ll also explain the benefits and share some free templates to help you out. Being able to schedule resources and understand resource requirements will improve resource allocation. Enterprise project managers also oversee all the projects, review them and make sure they’re meeting their schedules and staying on budget.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 1, 2023

While project management software is the gold standard, there are many free project management templates for Google that you can download to plan, manage and track your projects. Get these free project management templates for Google and take control of your project to deliver it successfully. Go to file and chick make a copy.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 17, 2023

To help you manage your construction projects better, we’ll even add a few free templates. Once you have a plan and schedule, set a baseline on the Gantt chart to capture it so you can compare your planned effort against your actual effort in real time to help you stay on track. What Are the 5 Construction Phases?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 20, 2023

It’ll have to be razed and redone, which negatively affects the construction project schedule and budget. Construction Templates Construction templates are a great way to streamline the project management process and add efficiency. It helps with estimating, scheduling and determining the project’s scope.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Then we’ll throw in some free templates to help with workload analysis. But that project schedule needs to align with your resources and you have to know who’s available and when they’re available to work. Create a Timeline You have all the elements to create a schedule. What Is Workload Analysis? Resources cost money.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As you might imagine, having project management software helps plan, manage and track this work, but if you’re not using such tools, there are product management templates that can help you steer the course. Product Roadmap Template A product roadmap is an essential tool in product management. It’s divided into two parts.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 18, 2023

To further help, there is a change order template included and, of course, how construction project management software goes even further. It’s critical to quickly get the change in writing, and make adjustments to the schedule and costs. Don’t neglect the subcontractors who will have to make adjustments to their schedules.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 24, 2023

Although it’s impossible to predict the future, with these free risk management templates, you can better prepare for the unexpected and be more apt to keep your project on track. There are many project management templates that are designed to help you identify, respond to and track those risks. Learn more 3.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

They are going to want to know how the project is progressing and whether it’s scheduled to deliver on time and within its budget. Better still, you’ll have pinned those expectations to a schedule that is aligned with your project. Stakeholder Map Template A stakeholder map visualizes how you will manage each stakeholder.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Then we’ll provide an example to better illustrate what we’re talking about and even provide a download to a free strategy map template to help you get started. Strategy Map Template Building a strategy map is really just busy work. ProjectManager has a free strategy map template for Excel that you can use.

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