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APRIL 5, 2024

What Is a Maintenance Schedule? Having a well-structured maintenance schedule reduces unscheduled downtime through the proactive planning and allocation of resources for maintenance tasks. Gantt charts can schedule maintenance tasks, allocate resources and track costs. Be sure that the equipment list is complete.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What Is a Construction Gantt Chart? Here, the project tasks are listed, their start dates and deadlines, duration, who’s assigned to that task, other resources needed to complete the task and so on. Learn more What Can a Gantt Chart Be Used for in Construction? On the left, there’s a typical spreadsheet.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Resources in construction are managed by construction resource management. There are many different types of construction resources beyond labor and we’ll define them as well as the process for construction resource management. What Is Construction Resource Management? The following is a list of them.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Your team is your most valuable resource when executing a project. The ability to know who you need and when you need them for the project is what workload analysis is all about. We’ll explain what workload analysis is and when you should be using it in your project. What Is Workload Analysis?

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Managing resources effectively is one way to deliver your projects on time and within budget. But what do you do when you don’t have enough resources and the deadline is quickly beating down on you? Project managers use a technique called resource smoothing. What is resource smoothing? Learn more.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

What is a project pipeline? Then we’ll identify the stages of project pipeline management, what to track in your project pipeline and the tools that can help. What Is a Project Pipeline? Learn more What Is Project Pipeline Management? We’ll get to that in a moment as well as define project pipeline management.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

What Is Tactical Planning? Tactical planning is the practical counterpoint to strategic planning, which describes the overall direction of an organization. Tactical planning tells you how to get there. It’s about execution and, therefore, critical to achieving your strategic goals. This can apply to a business or a project team.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

How can you allocate resources wisely across all those projects? That and more is what enterprise project management does. Let’s define the term enterprise project management and then identify its unique challenges before going into what an enterprise project manager is and what an enterprise project management office is.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

You’ve heard it countless times; teams are projects’ most valuable resource. Resource loading is a process to keep team members fully engaged throughout the project. Being able to balance the resource load across your team is important. What Is Resource Loading? Resource Loading vs. Resource Leveling.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Then, subcontractors build it and vendors are responsible for the resources. 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?

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MARCH 28, 2024

Gantt charts are essential project planning and scheduling tools that can manage and track resources and costs. Gantt charts are essential project planning and scheduling tools that can manage and track resources and costs. Learn more What Can a Notion Gantt Chart Be Used For? We’ll get to that in a moment.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

You need to strategize and plan your resource allocation to ensure that every project has what it needs when it needs it. What Is Lean Portfolio Management? Portfolio management teams learn about enterprise strategy and how to execute that strategy by allocating the budget. What Are the 5 Lean Principles?

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MARCH 8, 2024

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. First, we’ll explain what an RFI in construction is and then list what should be included in one. What Is an RFI in Construction?

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JANUARY 4, 2024

What Is Bottom-Up Budgeting? What Is Top-Down Budgeting? Once the budget is approved, senior management will make specific allocations to the various departments. In turn, they must create their budgets based on the allocations. Use our powerful Gantt charts to map your resource costs on a visual timeline.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Gantt charts to explain what each is, with an example showing how they work, and their pros and cons. What Is a Gantt Chart? The Gantt chart captures the tasks, resources and dependencies of your project plan and is used in project management. Gantt charts have come a long way in the 100+ years of their existence.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Using project planning templates can help you schedule tasks, estimate budgets and allocate resources. Unlike templates, our Gantt charts can not only organize your tasks, add resources and costs, but link all four types of task dependencies to avoid costly delays. Project Plan Template A project plan is a big endeavor.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

We’ll look at project cash flow, what it is and how to calculate and manage it. What Is Project Cash Flow? But even if your project doesn’t involve contractors, you can still use project cash flow analysis to quantify the resources used in the project. That process is called project cash flow.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

If human resources are your most valuable resource, you better give them the attention they need to get their work done. What Is Workforce Planning? It’s used to avoid gaps in your workforce coverage and determine what skills are needed where and when, at the right cost, to help the project or projects succeed.

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MARCH 8, 2022

Resource management is one of the most important aspects of project management. That’s because projects need resources and those resources must be managed. Project resources are all the raw materials, equipment and human resources necessary to execute project tasks. What Is Resource Management?

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MAY 2, 2023

Resource optimization is key to delivering a successful project. Resources, of course, are anything used to execute the project, including human resources and non-human resources. Resource management techniques keep a project on schedule. What Is Resource Optimization?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In this blog, we’ll go through a step-by-step guide on how to create a project timeline in Excel using various methods and then, we’ll explore other project scheduling tools that can help you create a project timeline such as Gantt charts, kanban boards or project calendars. Here’s what you’ll need to do.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Assign tasks to your team members, create a project schedule, track resource utilization and monitor project costs. Learn more What Can You Use a Power BI Gantt Chart For? Power BI can help you better analyze the data your business or project generates so you can make better decisions. But is Power BI good for project management?

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

What Is Trello? What Is Trello Used For? 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. Trello is often thought of as the go-to for kanban boards, which visualize workflow. Let’s closely compare Trello vs. Asana.

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MARCH 14, 2024

What Is Project Strategy? ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software with robust Gantt charts that give managers transparency into how the project progresses in real time and the resources it needs to achieve its goals. Every project is different.

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APRIL 11, 2024

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? It can eliminate bottlenecks and optimize resource use, all of which leads to saving money. Still, that work should be overseen by the business.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Let’s look at what a simple Gantt chart is and why one would want to use it over the more dynamic Gantt charts. What Is a Simple Gantt Chart? However, a simple Gantt chart might be just what you need to plan a project. It’s a lot easier than having to add resources, costs, dependencies, milestones and more.

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MARCH 1, 2024

In this blog, we’ll show you how to make a Gantt chart in Asana and we’ll do an in-depth analysis of its features, benefits and limitations. In this blog, we’ll show you how to make a Gantt chart in Asana and we’ll do an in-depth analysis of its features, benefits and limitations. What Can You Use an Asana Gantt Chart For?

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MARCH 20, 2024

Construction projects are structured with schedules, budgets and resource allocation. What Is a Preconstruction Meeting? Our color-coded workload chart shows everyone’s allocation and general contractors can balance the team’s workload right from that chart to keep them working at capacity and staying productive.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Do you have the resources? Resource forecasting is how you can answer that last question. Resources are anything you need to execute the project plan. Want to know why resource forecasting is so important? What Is Resource Forecasting in Project Management? As noted, resources can mean many things.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

What Is a PMO Director? Another important task given to PMO directors is managing and allocating resources across projects according to priorities, schedules and budgets. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that gives PMO directors visibility into projects so they can allocate resources better.

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MARCH 22, 2024

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? Learn more What Should Be Included In a Contractor Payment Schedule? They’re also expensive.

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MAY 9, 2023

Executing projects to meet deadlines without overspending the budget requires a project manager to understand resource availability. It’s part of the larger process of resource management. Resources are anything used to deliver project tasks including materials, equipment, labor and more. What Is Resource Availability?

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MARCH 31, 2023

If you need more help with project management, check out all of our resources and project management tools for reaching your full potential. If you need more help with project management, check out all of our resources and project management tools for reaching your full potential. What Is a Project? What Is Project Management?

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AUGUST 9, 2022

While deliverables are due at specific points on your project timeline, getting those deliverables completed on time requires scheduling your human resources with a resource calendar. What Is a Resource Calendar? The profile assists with resource calendars by allowing the project manager to quickly see who can do what.

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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? What Is a Schedule of Values? Get started with ProjectManager today for free.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

But do you know what a construction timesheet is and why it’s important? What Is a Construction Timesheet? Understandably, they want to know what they’re being charged for. Construction sites are busy with subcontractors and other crews working on various smaller projects that will lead to the final build.

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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? Use our powerful Gantt charts to create visual timelines and allow you to organize tasks with costs and resources.

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