ProjectManager.com

MARCH 26, 2024

Construction projects must adhere to many codes and regulations. While some regulations are federal, many change depending on the municipality where the project is being done. Before a construction project can be completed, it must pass a building inspection. What Is a Building Inspection? This must be all planned.

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Software Review Technical Review Construction Retail 389

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. What Is Kanban? What Is Scrum?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2024

After the war, the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota looked at how supermarkets stocked only what they expected to sell at a given time. What Is Kanban? Kanban is a visual method for managing workflow and production. At its most basic level, it’s a board that’s divided into columns of to do, doing and done.

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Manufacturing Software Review Lean Software 349

ProjectManager.com

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. Does Tableau Have a Gantt Chart? Learn more What Can You Use a Tableau Gantt Chart For?

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Software Review Construction Artificial Inteligence Software 343

ProjectManager.com

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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Software Review Construction Monitoring Budget 331

ProjectManager.com

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. To help with that decision, we’ve set up a comparison with Microsoft Project vs. Microsoft Planner. What Is Microsoft Project?

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Aerospace Software Retail Risk Management 379

ProjectManager.com

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? What Is ClickUp? What Is ClickUp Used For?

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Software Review Software Underperforming Technical Team 2014 348

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Microsoft Power BI is a data analysis software that allows you to use various tools such as spreadsheets, pie charts, stacked bars and other types of diagrams to visualize project or business data, including the Power BI Gantt chart. But is Power BI good for project management? Does Power BI Have a Gantt Chart?

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Software Review 2021 Project Cost Software 363

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Projects ideally sit within a governance framework that is bigger than the project team. But what does governance on projects actually look like? How many of these do you have on your project? A sponsor should be appointed during the very early days of the project. You have a sponsor.

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Inloox

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Right on time for the end of the year, we present you for the fifth time a review of what has kept you, us and the project management industry busy in the past year. Despite major changes this year, however, topics such as agile working or project management basics remain relevant. It has become a tradition by now.

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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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Software Review Estimate Budget Executing 362

ProjectManager.com

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? This construction document helps subcontractors understand what they need to do if they have any questions. What Is an RFI in Construction?

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Construction Software Review Engineering Budget 318

ProjectManager.com

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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

Project managers are often faced with the challenge of managing complex projects and ensuring that they stay on track. But what is an organizational process asset (OPA)? I’ll confess: when I started out as a project manager, this was a piece of jargon that honestly didn’t mean much at all?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 5, 2024

What Is a Maintenance Schedule? Project management software can help organizations keep to their maintenance schedule. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software with multiple project views that help keep maintenance schedules on track.

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Manufacturing Construction Software Review Healthcare 317

Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

When we did our roundup of the 50 best Project Management Blogs in 2017 it quickly became one of our most popular posts. You folks do like reading about project management! So, here then is our list of the 52 best Project Management Blogs for 2019. And that’s great. Things change.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Trello vs. 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. ProjectManager has Gantt charts, unlike Trello and Asana, to better manage projects.

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Software Review 2011 2024 Underperforming Technical Team 361

ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For a project to function properly and be delivered on time and within its budget, all the roles and responsibilities of everyone involved must be clearly defined and communicated. Everyone has their part to play in the process, which is orchestrated by the project manager acting on behalf of the project owner.

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ProjectManager.com

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?

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Project Life Cycle Software Review Monitoring Budget 403

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Whether you’re looking to hire a construction superintendent or want to land that job yourself, you’re going to have to consider what you need or how to frame a resume to show you’re the one for the position. What Is a Construction Superintendent? This will inform the construction project’s budget. Many things.

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Construction Monitoring Certification Engineering 372

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 1, 2023

Mike Clayton True leadership is not something you do when it suits you. These are the situations that separate out the good project managers from the poor, and the true project leaders from the ‘merely competent’ project managers. Or will you involve team members and, if so, to what extent?

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Leadership Underperforming Technical Team 2013 Planning 420

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I was interviewed by Diego Nei for the Brazilian blog, Papo GP (Talking PM – I think I’ve got that right). We were talking about PRINCE2®, what it means to get qualified and how it compares to the PMBOK Guide. Elizabeth, what’s the story behind the PRINCE2 methodology? In brief, how does PRINCE2 work?

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Prince2 Underperforming Technical Team Certification PMI 422

ProjectManager.com

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. What Is a Contractor Payment Schedule? They’re also expensive.

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Construction Software Review Budget Defining 314

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 4, 2023

When it comes to project management, autocratic decision making can be a valuable tool for achieving success. In this blog post, we’ll look at what autocratic decision making is, when you should use it in your projects, how it fits with leadership styles, strategies for successful implementation within the workplace, and more!

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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. But do they deliver on those promises? But you don’t want to put your time, money and effort on a tool that can’t deliver what you need. What Is Jira?

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Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 348

ProjectManager.com

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. Learn more What Is Asana? What Is Asana Used For?

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Software Review 2024 Aerospace 2008 319

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you’re researching which project management software to use, you’ve probably already compared Asana vs. ClickUp. However, as project management tools, they both fall short. Asana’s timeline is no substitute for a Gantt chart and ClickUp is more focused on productivity than project management. That’s fair.

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Software Review 2024 Underperforming Technical Team 2012 354

ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Projects cost money. But what’s harder to discern is if the project is worth the investment. The last thing stakeholders want is to discover the project isn’t financially effective. We’ll discuss what the cost performance index does and how it does it below. Project costs can vary.

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Project Cost Budget Performance Measurement Manufacturing 374

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 29, 2023

Once the weather starts to change and temperatures start to heat up, project managers from all industries start to have something in common: it’s hard to stay motivated on your project when you’d rather be outside! But I still find it difficult to stay focused on project board minutes or tracking risks when it’s nice out.

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Energy Defining Risk Management Monitoring 355

The IIL Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

It traces its roots to Lean, which is also foundational to other modern management theories. So, what is value? What makes them happy? What are they willing to pay for? What differentiates us from our competitors or alternatives? They ensure alignment between what the organization values and does.

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Lean Agile Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 164

nTask

MAY 27, 2019

Productivity blogs & other related content gained infamy with the advent of the internet. Things were a little different several decades ago; the management formula was old; people truly believed in the “Just Do It” mantra. Our Obsession with Productivity Blogs. Use Case: The nTask Blog.

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2019 Technical Review 2011 Innovation 137

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?

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Software Review Estimate Monitoring Project Cost 345

Scrum.org

JANUARY 1, 2024

In my professional career I have been project manager for many years in different types of environments and for different types of projects. I have been trainer in PRINCE2® and PRINCE2 Agile®, in Management of Portfolios (MoP®) and Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O®), and in AgilePM®.

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Prince2 SCRUM 2001 PMI 176

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

So, what can you do about this? And one of the areas is team agility ­– how does a team organise itself to frequently deliver small increments of software? A lot of thought went into these questions, including multiple reviews from other software developers, team leaders and project managers. Read on to find out.

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Technical Review Agile Development Team Review Software Review 444

ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 23, 2021

We’ve learned a lot over the past year about social distancing, hand washing, and, if you want to keep productivity chugging along, you need project management software. Task Management Focused: Tools that target your work, organizing it and monitoring your progress to keep you on schedule. ProjectManager. ProjectManager.

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2022 Software Review Software 2021 316

ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

To communicate this, organizations will usually employ what is called a strategy map. If you’re unfamiliar with a strategic map, we’ll explain what it is and what is included in one. What Is a Strategy Map? What Should Be Included in a Strategy Map? What Should Be Included in a Strategy Map? Learn more.

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Software Review Defining Budget Performance Measurement 363

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

When I run project management rooms on Clubhouse or open my DMs for questions on Facebook or LinkedIn, one of the most common questions is: What certificate should I get? What are the benefits of being a PMI member? The Project Management Institute membership has a lot of benefits. Professional development.

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